Medical Informatics Engineer At Partners in Health

Position Title: Medical Informatics Engineer

Reports to: HMEI Lead

Location: Harper (with visits to other sites)

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

Partners In Health (PIH) seeks a social justice –oriented professional to work in the Health Management Evaluation and Informatics Department. Reporting to the Lead of the Health Management Evaluation & Informatics Department, the Medical Informatics Engineer is an experienced leader of organizational strategy and implementation of data pipelines and data warehousing, enabling expanded and improved data access and use, data governance, and enhancing PIH teams’ ability to make data-driven decisions. The incumbent will partner with clinical, operational, and business teams across the organization to support the development and deployment of EMR systems at our supported health facilities. This work may include developing data architecture, programs and procedures using standard data architecture methods (e.g. star schema and snowflake data models), SQL and ETL development tools, and supporting analytics and report dashboard development. Your responsibility will span the complete software development lifecycle: design, development, testing, and deployment of systems at health facilities. The position requires strong data management, problem-solving, business system, time management and documentation skills.

Key area of responsibilities and support;

· Design, development, testing, and deployment of Informatics systems at health facilities.

· Partner with medical informatics analysts to design, develop and maintain data pipelines, data governance compliance, procedures, and tooling to support local and global data warehousing.

· Gather and identify system requirements through collaboration with clinical, data analysts, information systems, business systems, and other stakeholders across OnePIH.

· Lead the design of data warehouse schemas and data architecture to ensure system scalability, performance, data integrity and ease of use.

· Use various SQL tools or scripts to monitor data quality, identify issues and implement solutions.

· Support subject matter experts in their development of reporting and analytics

· Maintain parallel training and documentation activities to help build global data management capacity

· Identify and recommend innovations to existing software

· Documentation of functionality

Minimum Qualifications

BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Comparable real-world experience will be considered.

· 3+ years’ experience with web-based software development

· Experience with modern software development processes, including software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, peer review, and agile development life cycles.

· Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively

· Strong attention to detail

Experience preferred with the following:

Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (jquery)

· Developing applications running on Linux, or Unix-like kernel-based operating system

· Google Docs

· CommCare, ODK, mobile tools

· Experience gathering requirements and understanding the needs of diverse stakeholders

· Advanced proficiency in MySQL or other SQL database

· Experience with analytics and programming languages including Python, JAVA, R, and STATA

· Experience with Power BI, Jet Reports desirable

· Proven ability to learn new systems, processes and problem solve

· Data Analytics experience working in low-resource settings

· Advanced Excel skills

· Attention to detail

· Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and countries

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.