Data Engineer

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  
Job Highlights · Location: Remote, must be based in the United States · Salary Range: $103,500-$143,500 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate. · Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity · Position End Date: June 30, 2025

Overview

• The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in advancing the CDC Foundation's mission by designing, building, and maintaining data interfaces for a public health organization. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements. Working within the Public Health Information Systems (PHIS) division under Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LA DPH), the Data Engineer will deliver the architecture needed for data generation, storage, processing, and analysis. The Data Engineer will collaborate with HL7 SMEs, data content experts, analysts, data scientists, data modelers, warehouse architects, IT staff and other organization staff to design and implement proposed solutions and architectures that meet the needs of the public health agency. Projects the Data Engineer will support include: contributing to the transition of legacy disease surveillance and laboratory information management systems into a unified platform; improving connectivity for electronic case reporting (eCR) and Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR), exchanged with key interested parties using the AIMS platform; refining data ingestion from hospitals and the state department of public health; and transitioning a data pipeline pilot to production on Azure and integrating …