Health Informatics Scientist - TBI Blast Injury

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HJF is seeking a Health Informatics Scientist to join the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Defense Intrepid Network reporting directly to the principle CMO. The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) is a DoD institute dedicated to providing cutting‑edge evaluation, treatment, and research for service members dealing with complex interactions of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and psychological health (PH) conditions.

The incumbent will work alongside the Informatics group at the NICoE which maintains a large‑scale informatics database with longitudinal data for hundreds of thousands of patients that have been diagnosed with mTBI.

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing military medicine. We serve military, medical, academic and government clients by administering, managing and supporting preeminent scientific programs that benefit members of the armed forces and civilians alike. Since its founding in 1983, HJF has served as a vital link between the military medical community and its federal and private partners.

HJF's support and administrative capabilities allow military medical researchers and clinicians to maintain their scientific focus and accomplish their research goals.

• Responsible for defining, developing, executing and overseeing data governance for data requests, data warehousing, and information delivery solutions related to a specialized research project in repetitive brain injury in the military setting.
• Supports the CMO in conducting research and development of state‑of‑the‑art data warehousing, and information delivery solutions.
• Collects data from clinical/research settings and programmatically prepares data for analysis, cleans imperfect data, and visualizes data outcomes using a variety of tools including data visualization (e.g., Tableau), programming languages (e.g., Python), and database languages (e.g., SQL).
• Ability to perform complex data analysis preferred, design, development, and testing activities in support of project reporting, and data analytics solutions across a wide range of operational functional areas. Knowledgeable with data sets and statistical capability.
• Provides operational support for new and existing BI and data warehouse components (e.g., Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB Visualizer and Teradata Studio).
• Assists with the design, development, and deployment of a specialized data warehouse and tools to support long term information delivery and data visualization needs.
• Performs data requests in support of clinical evaluation, research projects, etc. for wide range of business and operational functional areas by manipulating large datasets from multiple data systems.
• Builds and maintains existing Microsoft SSIS packages used for refreshing and recurring data requests. Maintains files for storage of research documents and familiarity with missing data.
• Contribute expertise to tasks requiring collaboration with project partners including, but not limited to, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, JTAPIC and the Institute for Defense Analysis.
• Generates and distributes reports as necessary. This includes batch reports run on daily, weekly, and monthly cycles, status reports as well as any special purpose ad‑hoc reports.
• Reconciles discrepancies with the guidance of a supervisor and obtain guidance when values are questionable or illegible.
• Interacts with clinical personnel to resolve omissions, discrepancies or any other data management issues. Generates, distributes, tracks, enters resolution, annotates and files data entry reconciliation reports and data clarifications. Verifies computer‑generated output against original forms.
• Checks work for accuracy daily according to established procedures. Reports any system/data errors and/or problems to their supervisor.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

• Doctoral Degree in Computer Science,…