Data Scientist - Remote

Position: 453.c Architecture and Engineering Analyst

Location: 100% Remote Role

Duration: Contract Long Term

Job Description:

LCAT: Data Scientist III (CS)

Required Education Level: PhD

Discipline: Healthcare Science Computer Engineering or related scientific technical or clinical discipline

Required Experience (Years): 4

Substitution Criteria: 12 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education

Pillars: ODCIO

SubPillars: ODCIO Interagency

Location: Remote

Job Description

• Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRMIO) program as an Architecture and Engineering Analyst program as an Architecture and Engineering Analyst for the Office of Deputy Chief Information Officer (ODCIO) Interagency pillar to coordinate crossdisciplinary team and project efforts for ensuring integrations compatibility healthcare semantics informatics and usability across multiple platforms as required for the full EHR modernization effort are met.
• Support new and existing initiatives and recommend new processes for developing and documenting value metrics including identification of data sources baseline measurements fiscal year targets performance thresholds metric measurement methods and analytic tools.
• Liaise between internal and external business technical and governance stakeholder groups to ensure understanding and communication of business needs desired outcomes technical requirements and performance constraints.
• Conduct value assessments that analyze programs functional areas and organizations to determine whether the management systems currently being utilized are efficiently accomplishing the objectives sought and whether they provide controls necessary for sound management.
• Examine the functionality purpose and integration of existing and planned software applications to determine and document the business data application and technology principles necessary for compliance to Federal and VA policies.
• Provide Clinical Informatics subject matter expertise to support the translation of functional requirements to technical implementation requirements architecture terminology mapping prototyping testing with the business customers and technical teams for implementation.

Minimum qualifications:

• 4 years relevant work experience
• Possesses knowledge of appropriate data sources to address the specific requirements of projects for monitoring characterization analysis and modeling.
• Performs scientific research scientific writing and editing including the writing and editing of project products to established government standards for the targeted science and lay audiences proofreading of draft and final documents.
• Works under supervision.
• Attends meetings and workshops to present on project work participate in discussions.
• Can supervise and create new approaches and solutions.
• PHD in healthcare science engineering or related scientific technical or clinical discipline. 12 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in the VA and/or DOD
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records