Health Data Analytics Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Join the MITRE Open Health Services group and hone your trade alongside a growing, cross-disciplinary team in our Bedford, Massachusetts office tackling some of the nation’s biggest challenges in the translation to digital healthcare and patient empowerment.

The ideal candidate has a deep passion for software and technology and prior experience in data science and predictive health analytics. 

If you love: 
• Watching the analytics tools you build go from idea to capability using agile techniques.
• Developing new code and seeing it tested as an integral part of daily operations for the user community. 
• Learning new tools and technologies quickly.
• Processing petabytes of data 

Key Functions:

• Develop tools and libraries that will help team members more efficiently interface with huge amounts of data.
• Contribute to the team’s growing set of development platforms, tools, and processes.
• Work closely with healthcare experts to identify, design and build appropriate datasets for complex experiments and research.
• Decipher the health mission and customer needs and translate into predictive analytics requirements and technical solutions.
• Be passionate about good development practices and a soundboard for design questions.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree or higher required in CS or applied quantitative field (math/statistics, economics, engineering).
• Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and technical innovation.
• Demonstrated expertise with software architecture & design, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with very large datasets with knowledge of NOSQL technologies like Hadoop, Impala, HiveQL, Spark, HDFS a must.
• Experience with massively parallel database implementations (Teradata, Aster, Netezza, etc.)
• Ability to write complicated, efficient SQL queries to extract and process data, especially using Postgres. 
• Experience writing stored procedural code (e.g., in PL/SQL or PL/PGSQL). 
• Experience with data analysis, data fusion and integration. 
• Strong analytical skills and comfort with common statistical techniques.
• Experience in delivering software in Java, Ruby, or at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, etc.)
•Familiarity with statistical software (Pandas, Numpy, Sklearn, R, Matlab, SAS).
• Experience with Linux utility commands and shell scripting using Perl, Python or similar. 
• Comfort in agile software development methodology and demonstrated good development practices.

Clearance Statement:

Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, MITRE will consider only applicants with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

If interested, please send resume to Ashley Tonkinson at View email address on ziprecruiter.com.  

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