Washington State Department of Social and Health Services · 6 hours ago
DSHS FTAA IT Data Management - Senior/Specialist
Olympia, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expThe Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is seeking a Senior IT Data Management Specialist to join their Research and Evaluation Center. This role involves leading the design and management of advanced data systems to support social and health services research, ensuring data integrity and compliance while providing expert consultation and technical guidance to stakeholders.
GovernmentHealth CareSocial Assistance
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain complex cross-agency databases and analytic applications, ensuring high levels of accuracy, performance, and data integrity across social and health service programs
Build advanced analytic datasets and statistical models (longitudinal, predictive, and measurement-based) using SAS or R to support evaluation, policy development, and executive decision-making
Lead requirements gathering, data architecture design, and ETL development, including data extraction, transformation, linkage (probabilistic and deterministic), and schema creation across multiple state and partner agency systems
Conduct sophisticated statistical analyses and create custom reporting solutions, enabling stakeholders to explore data, generate insights, and produce detailed reports
Ensure compliance with data governance, information security, and confidentiality standards (including HIPAA), and coordinate secure data transfers with cross-agency partners
Provide expert consultation and technical guidance to researchers, program managers, and partner agencies on the use, interpretation, and improvement of integrated data systems and analytic tools
Monitor and improve data systems through continuous quality improvement, troubleshooting complex technical issues, evaluating new methodologies, and recommending system upgrades
Qualification
Required
A Bachelor's degree including 9 semester or 15 quarter hours of computer science courses and 7 years of progressively more responsible IT work experience with large, complex administrative databases
OR AA in computer science, statistical programming, or related program AND 9 years of progressively more responsible IT work experience with large, complex administrative databases
OR 11 Eleven (11) years as an Information Technology Data Management technician or equivalent or higher experience level technician
A Master's degree will substitute for one year of the required experience
Five years of work experience managing, programming and analyzing data for research and evaluation purposes using SAS or another statistical analysis software, including substantial experience with complex statistical methods, longitudinal data analysis, data mining, logic modeling, and case mix adjustment
Four years or more experience performing quantitative data analyses and database administration using complex administrative data systems, preferably in a health or human service area
Demonstrated ability to plan, develop and implement propensity score modeling and/or related methods for creating statistically comparable groups based on demographic, clinical and service history variables; OR demonstrated ability to prepare SAS-ready data sets to generate statistically comparable groups efficiently and effectively
Advanced skills using SAS for data management and analysis
Five years of experience managing and analyzing data with SQL, or another high level data management programming language
Demonstrated project management experience
Company
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services offers long-term care and behavioral health assistance to the community.
10001+ employees
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Candice Yi, MSW, LICSW
Deputy Chief Executive Officer/SCC
Charles Southerland
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