Data Analyst

Position Title : Data Analyst

Location: Washington DC

Short Description:

The DHCF DCAS team is looking for Data analyst with 11 years of experience managing data pertaining to the different medical nutrition and financial subsidies managed by the DCAS system.

Complete Description:

The Data Analyst will play a critical role to support the work of the DCAS Program Administration Executive Steering Committee and DCAS Stakeholders. Under the aegis of the DCAS Chief Data Officer the DCAS Data Analyst is responsible for:

Operational Oversight
One of the key duties of the Data Analyst s is overseeing the life cycle of a DCAS data. Specifically the Data Analyst is responsible for defining and implementing policies and procedures for the daytoday operational and administrative management of systems and data including the intake storage processing and transmission of data to internal and external systems. As a part of the oversight for institutional data the Data Analyst must be accountable to define and document data and terminology in a relevant glossary. This includes ensuring that each critical data element has a clear definition and is still in use.

• Responsible for developing and implementing strategies to assess and develop rules to maintain the quality integrity and reliability of data.
• Coordinate crossagency efforts and decisions that ensure official agency records requirements privacy security and other related requirements are met.
• Provide oversight to ensure the data issues needs and requirements are documented.

Data Quality

• This ultimately responsible for establishing dataquality metrics and requirements including defining the values ranges and parameters that are acceptable for each data element. They also work with the DCAS Data Research Analytics and Management team to establish procedures for detection and correction of dataquality issues and collaborate to establish policies procedures and internal controls affecting the quality of data. In addition the Data Analyst engages in the ongoing and detailed evaluation of data quality the identification of anomalies and discrepancies and the contribution of expertise to understand the root cause and implement corrective measures.
• Coordinate with DCAS program teams and DCAS Stakeholder Agencies to ensure the quality and integrity of the DCAS data elements (both content and metadata) to support the implementation of DCAS.
• Facilitate the creation of data standards based on business rules data access security requirements and retention of legacy data.

Privacy Security and Risk Management

• One of the most critical aspects for the Data Analyst s is the protection of data. The incumbent must establish guidelines and protocols that govern the proliferation of data to ensure that privacy controls are enforced in all processes. To be effective the Data Analyst must compile retention archival and disposal requirements and ensure compliance with institutional policy and regulations. Accordingly the Data Analyst will establish and implement data curation practices to ensure that the life span of data is commensurate with requirements. However the Data Analyst must protect data while striking a balance between transparency and privacy.
• Review agency and interagency datarelated work products.
• Coordinate crossagency efforts and decisions that ensure official agency records requirements privacy security and other related requirements are met for data.

Policies and Procedures

• The Data Analyst defines policies and procedures for access to DCAS data including the criteria for authorization based on role and/or the individual. Working closely with DCAS IT Privacy and PMO to establish controls the Data Analyst evaluates any suspected or actual breaches or vulnerabilities in confidentiality integrity or availability and report them to management or information security personnel.
• Monitor and analyze the application of federal state and local data requirements standards and rules (internal and external).
• Coordinate efforts with stakeholder agencies to interpret business needs into applications and derive data requirements that represent the business entities needs regarding accessibility completeness timeliness desired attributes and relationship to other data entities when appropriate
• Present findings and recommendations to DCAS leadership Executive Steering Committee and other stakeholders regarding recommended changes to improve operating practices accountability or transparency.
• Other duties as assigned.

Other Significant Facts

• Preferred Skills include:
• Knowledge of good data management principles concepts and practices;
• Knowledge of how to determine business data requirements create data standards and business rules;
• Knowledge of human services and health care programs;
• Ability to work with multiple agency stakeholders that may have common and unique agency or programspecific data requirements;
• Familiarity with public policy issues related to human services data requirements;
• Ability to analyze complex abstract issues in a logical structured way;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office(Word Excel Power Point and Outlook);
• Knowledge of statistics and/or research methodology.
• Analytical skills: outstanding analytical and problemsolving abilities.
• Familiarity with business information generation and analysis methods.
• Ability to effectively drive business culture and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment.
• Gravitas to develop a framework for information and data governance as well as to sell and embed it in all levels of the business.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business leaders as well as business concepts to technologists; the ability to sell ideas and process internally at all levels including the board and investors.
• Demonstrated knowledge of data structure desired but not essential; information systems/tools and related software and data management; enterprise content management and recordkeeping policies and practices in a complex organizational environment.
• Broad experience desired but not essential in multiple domain areas such as data warehousing business intelligence (BI)data governance data architecture data integration data classification data strategy data quality management data security and privacy MDM data standards regulatory compliance and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Preference for candidates with knowledge and experience with government
  
  Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:
  Bachelors degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience

Skill Assessment: (Please include the years of experience last used and brief description on skills below information is to be submitted along with the resume)

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount of Experience

Years Used

Short Brief Description

Project

11 yrs planning coordinating and monitoring project activities

Required

11 Years

11 yrs leading projects ensuring they are in compliance with established standards/procedures

Required

11 Years

Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Required

Experience with ETL tools Design Develop Analyze

Required

8 Years

Exp. with Curam software V6 or higher (Database centric work highly desired)

Required

3 Years

Proven work experience working as a senior/lead data analyst for large data sets and multiple interfaces

Required

8 Years

Handson experience in different file transfer methodologies and different file types and layouts

Required

8 Years

Experience with Tableau dashboard design and develop

Required

5 Years

Strong experience in Healthcare Data

Required

4 Years

Proven experience delivering Business Intelligence solutions

Required

8 Years

Working knowledge of writing functional technical and performance requirements in software development environment.

Required

8 Years

Working knowledge of Microsoft Visio to develop flow diagrams/ process diagrams as well as knowledge of the full MS Office Suite

Required

5 Years

Possess hands on Systems/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience.

Highly desired

11 Years