Development Analyst - Limited

Position: Development Analyst - Limited Duration
Current employees:
Please apply through the employee portal to be considered for this opportunity.

Pay Range:$54.08 - $66.51 Hourly Department:

Health Department Job Type:Regular Represented Exemption Status:

United States of America (Non-Exempt)
Closing Date (Open Until Filled if No Date Specified):

August 30, 2026

The Opportunity:

THIS WORK MATTERS!

Note:

This position was posted for Health Department only but is now available countywide. If you already applied, you do no need to apply again.

This is a Limited Duration position and may last up to 2 years.

Join us at Multnomah County Health Department, where we are seeking individuals who embody leadership, achievement, and action in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment. Our mission is at the heart of everything we do: to collaborate with communities, advance health equity, safeguard the most vulnerable, and foster health and wellness for all. Guided by our core values of Compassion and Care, Empowerment, Racial Equity, Creativity, and Integrity, we strive to create a workplace culture characterized by respect, trust, and understanding for the incredibly diverse populations we serve in our communities.

Multnomah County's Public Health Division is a vital resource for residents, working to promote physical and mental health, prevent disease and injury, and ensure access to essential health services. Some of our key functions and services include: preventing and controlling diseases, supporting maternal and child health, addressing mental health and substance use, ensuring environmental health, and promoting health equity.

The Development Analyst - Limited Duration position serves as a technical lead and systems analyst, managing the data lifecycle and technical reporting to create sophisticated visualization products. The Development Analyst also leads a Community of Practice to establish shared standards and documents historical workflows for continuous system improvements. The incumbent is expected to foster an inclusive work culture of respect and trust, ensuring a professional environment free from discrimination for all staff and the diverse populations served.

Roles and responsibilities include:

Business Intelligence Development, Automation, Production Support and Life Cycle Management Design and fully automate reporting deliverables by developing structured code, stored procedures, and web services, while utilizing advanced tuning techniques like query plan analysis and indexing to ensure high-performance database operations.

Manage the entire software development life cycle (SDLC)—from requirement gathering and data modeling to multi-level testing and code promotion—to translate complex business needs into scalable analytic strategies and data-driven solutions.

Oversee the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of BI applications, performing root-cause analysis for system issues and conducting rigorous data audits and validations to ensure absolute data integrity and security.

Strengthen organizational data literacy by maintaining comprehensive data dictionaries and system documentation, while providing expert guidance, training, and support to staff, vendors, and IT partners on emerging software trends and best practices.

Data Analysis, Research and Development Extract complex datasets from internal databases to deliver customized ad-hoc reports and mathematical models, utilizing back-end development techniques such as table mapping, views, and stored procedures to meet critical business and regulatory compliance needs.

Lead projects by developing comprehensive work plans, defining milestones, and prioritizing tasks across teams while documenting risks and mitigation strategies throughout the project lifecycle.

Serve as a technical data steward for specific datasets, performing deep-dive analysis on program and operational data to translate raw information into actionable business intelligence for management.

Interface with IT, subject matter experts, and management to ensure technical alignment, while strictly adhering to change control, configuration management, and code promotion protocols across non-production environments.

Scoping, Planning and Initiation of Data Systems Optimization Evaluates historical data practices and institutional knowledge to ensure organizational continuity, while surveying data literacy levels across all staff tiers to design tailored educational training and standardized benchmarks for skill development.

Conducts community-based research and maintains active feedback loops with partners and community members to ensure data collection practices and program improvements are grounded in lived experience and local impact.

Technical Project Management and Departmental Data Literacy Education Recruits and develops high-quality training programs and skill-building resources to ensure staff proficiency in core systems like EPIC, ArcGIS, and Tableau, while reconciling conflicting data requirements to establish analytical consistency across the…