Data Standards Specialist

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Seeking a Data Standards specialist to support a Federal Health client.

The work will focus on the discovery and advancement of open-source solutions in the laboratory domain.

The Data Standards specialist will be responsible for overseeing the development, maintenance, and documentation of a knowledge architecture that is intended to integrate reference terminology from distributors (e.g., SNOMED CT®, LOINC®, RxNorm) in a common data model.

There will be engagement with standards-development organizations (e.g., Health Level Seven International) and industry SMEs to promote model iteration and publication.

The Data Standards specialist will work as part of a cross-functional Scrum Agile team that works on medical terminology mapping. The resource will be a SME team lead and specialist to a cross-disciplinary team of medical informaticists and data engineers to help encode and structure data in formats parse-able by java engineering teams.

Day to day activities will include designing data structures, analyzing clinical terminologies and their internal data relationships, and collaborating on automation for ingestion and representation of data from disparate sources.

The ideal candidate will be both a leader and expert, with knowledge and involvement in the health IT standards community.

The team Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of over 15,000+ professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.Deloitte's Health Technology offering transforms the way the Healthcare IT market embraces modernization and modularization. Using our deep health, government, and technology consulting experience, our team strategically advises on design as well as implements and deploys solutions. In order to help clients reduce costs, improve health outcomes, and respond to public health crises, our Health Technology practice addresses critical health agency issues including: claims management, electronic health records, health information exchanges, health analytics, and health case management.Qualifications Required:

Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Strong problem-solving and written and oral communication skills

Experience with health data standards and terminology tools (e.g., SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, UMLS, VSAC) in Health IT systems

Experience with standards/research written formats - briefing abstracts, research proposals, etc.

Travel up to 25%

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Desired

Data modeling - both to describe functional relationships and serve as reference models for development efforts

Relational (SQL) database design as well as graph database design

Serialization formats such as XML/JSON

Experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) data integration processes

Agile experience

HL7 experience and or understanding

Familiarity with interoperability technologies and solutions

Data analytics skills

PMO experience

Understanding of Health IT systems development

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