Posting number: TPA-OSA
Department: - Not in the Classified Service, See Posting
Job classification: X - Job Not in Classified Service
Posting type: Open
Categories: IT and Computers, Miscellaneous
Agency: West Virginia Departments of Health, Health Facilities, and Human Services Office of Shared Administration (OSA) - Office of Management Information Services (MIS)
Location: Charleston, WV (or as designated)
Position Type: Full-Time, State Government
Salary: $48,098 - $84,558
TEMPORARY PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Make a Direct Impact on Public Health
Join the Office of Management Information Services to build, maintain, and safeguard the vital data pipelines that protect communities across West Virginia. In this role, you will be the backbone of our public health technology infrastructure—ensuring life-saving clinical information, lab results, and epidemiologic data flow seamlessly and securely across the state.
If you are driven by mission-focused public service and thrive working with mission-critical health data architectures, this is your opportunity to do meaningful, statewide work.
What You Will Do
Working in the Office of Management Information Services, this position will maintain a stand-alone, complex information system for certifying and auditing data transmissions from Laboratories, Electronic Medical or Health Records (EMR, EHR) and other Health data from various sources.
You will maintain Rhapsody systems ensuring consistent data delivery from labs and hospitals, update and maintain the WVEDSS application and servers, and perform other duties as assigned. Additionally, the position will provide support of existing clinical data interfaces to and from the Office of Laboratory Services, and to and from Office of Epidemiology Services systems.
Key Responsibilities & Essential Duties
System Maintenance & Data Certification: Under administrative direction, maintain a stand-alone complex information system for certifying and auditing data transmissions from laboratories, electronic medical or health records (EMR, EHR), and other health data from various sources.
Integration Engine Oversight: Maintain the Rhapsody system, ensuring consistent data delivery from labs and hospitals.
Application & Infrastructure Support: Support the WVEDSS IT manager to update and maintain the WVEDSS applications and servers; conduct test runs, troubleshooting/debugging programs from test results; and use certified data to test and verify new application releases installed in the test environment.
Data Extraction & Analytics Collaboration: Work with the Programmer Analyst in the Division of Infectious Disease (DIDE) to develop SQL/SAS-based programs to extract data from WVEDSS for various reports and detailed analysis.
Inter-Agency & Partner Integration: Work with the West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN), hospital laboratories, state public health laboratory, and other major commercial labs in establishing and maintaining Electronic Case Reporting including related activities.
Federal & Grant Representation: Represent the Agency to CDC with regards to project development and progress to meet program and grant-based objectives.
Desired Qualifications & Technical Skills
Familiarity highly desired: XML, HL7, and JavaScript.
Background or working knowledge in health informatics, clinical integration engines (Rhapsody), interface maintenance, or electronic disease surveillance systems (WVEDSS).
Experience with health data reporting standards (EMR/EHR data feeds, Electronic Case Reporting).
Training: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science or related field including but not limited to business data programming, business systems analysis, computer accounting, computer and information systems, computer servicing technologies, information systems management, data processing, or computer engineering.
OR
An Associate's degree from an accredited college, university or business school in computer science or related field including but not limited to business data programming, business systems analysis, computer accounting, computer and information systems, computer servicing technologies, information systems management, data processing, or computer engineering and eighteen months of full-time or equivalent part-time paid computer programming experience in one or more programming or data base languages.
Substitution: Three years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid computer programming experience in one or more programming or data base languages may substitute for the required training.Experience: Two years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid computer programming experience in one or more programming or data base languages, including one year of analysis work.
Agency Substitution or Supplemental Requirement:
Masters Degree in computer science or related field including but not limited to business data programming, business systems analysis, computer accounting, computer and information systems, computer servicing technologies, information systems management, data processing, or computer engineering would be equivalent to 2 years of the required experience.
