Senior Data Analyst - Dashboard Architect

GDIT is hiring a Senior Data Analyst-Dashboard Architect to provide data management, analytic, and visualization support for our program with HRSA Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) – Patient Safety.

The program’s mission is to support the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in safeguarding patient safety and ensuring consistent, effective oversight of member performance and policy compliance across the national transplant system. This mission advances by enabling rigorous monitoring, case review, committee support, and facilitation of compliance standards that uphold regulatory requirements and protect public health. These functions collectively strengthen the integrity, accountability, and reliability of the U.S. organ transplantation system.

Position is for full-time employment with GDIT and is remote.

Duties include:

• Conduct data interpretation and analysis of Patient Safety and workflow data using various data analytics platforms (R and PowerBi)
• Develop and test innovative data analytic methods or applications to enhance insight of OPTN program performance 
• Provide technical assistance in data management, analysis, and visualizations to HRSA and field staff
• Prepare written summaries and presentations that reflect the results of the data analysis and present findings to agency leadership
• Educate stakeholders HRSA and field staff on the use of data collection and analysis best practices as well as dashboard use
• Build data dashboards in various platforms including Excel and business intelligence platforms
• Liaise with stakeholders across different contract tasks/departments
• Manage unstructured patient level and workflow data to prepare for meaningful data analysis
• Develop methods, processes, or checks to assess and improve the quality of PEPFAR data across the data life cycle from reporting, entry, access, extraction, and use 

Education:

• BA/BS required with 6 years experience OR Masters with 4 years experience (MPH, Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics or a related field)

Qualifications:

Required:

• Understanding of data management principles using R/PowerBi
• Proficiency in data wrangling (querying/connecting, transposing, merging, filtering, aggregating, cleaning) of large complex datasets using R/RStudio or similar
• Proficiency in building data models using Power Query or similar
• Ability to create quantitative analytics tools, visualizations and applications in more than one of the following platforms: Excel, PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Tableau, R Studio/R Shiny, Python/Jupyter
• Knowledge of methods in data science, modeling and/or machine learning
• Ability to produce impactful, clear, and timely presentations and reports to experts
• Ability to train public health professionals on data analysis life cycle skillsets

• Expert user of Microsoft Excel, Power Query, and PowerPoint

Highly Desired:

• Familiarity with health, public health, or population health
• Experience working with BI platforms such as PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience working with or for a US government agency
• Experience working with big datasets and/or patient level data
• Capable of creating geospatial analytic products using RStudio or QGIS

Skills and Attributes:

• Strong verbal communication skills; must be comfortable and effective working with diverse audiences
• Ability to work independently, including exploring new lines of investigation with minimal supervisory guidance
• Organized, intuitive, efficient and well-documented coding skills
• Excellent analytical and writing skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Passionate about making impact in health
• Effective oral and written communication skills to communicate assignments and requests
• Superb interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively as a team member
• Ability to multitask and effectively manage competing priorities