Job Description

Project/Program:

Medicaid Data Warehouse.

The position is being requested for the Medicaid Data Warehouse Bureau. Medicaid Data Warehouse is the primary repository for Medicaid in New York State and is the main provider of Business Intelligence on Medicaid Data.

Day-to-day Tasks:

The IT Specialist will perform report development tasks as it relates to health information technology including development of reports, workflows, data transformation, programming solutions, writing and executing unit test plans, researching, resolving, and testing reporting defects, and close collaboration with the technical team.

 Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze, develop, and revise flow charts, process models and technical specifications describing as-is or to-be Information Technology (IT) systems or business processes.
• Review business requirements documentation with technical project manager and programmers to ensure clarity in implementation of technical design.
• Participate in business requirement and joint application development sessions to inform report options.
• Implement systems and program design to meet complex business needs and author technical design document. Create appropriate documentation in work assignments such as program code and technical documentation.
• Assist project manager in development of report time estimates and completes assigned tasks.
• Participate in development as data expert, with specialization in report development. Ensure report development through coding, testing, debugging, implementing, and documenting programs, and developing test plans to verify logic programs and output.
• Troubleshoot end user technical issues, identifying report problems and leading solutions.
• Support release management process including technical steps to promote, test and release through the development environment, coordinating with infrastructure staff.
• Use waterfall, iterative and agile software development life cycle methodologies.

Mandatory Qualifications:

IT Specialist–

Works in the field of Information Technology, experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms, technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.

Expert:

84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications:

• 84 months experience in the area of: Public health information Systems such as Medicaid or the Childs Health Insurance Program.
• 84 months experience using Oracle products including: SQL Developer, SQL plus and executing SQL scripts using DBeaver to query Vertica and Oracle Databases.
• 84 months experience Working with Stakeholders and vendor in the entire project life cycle from requirement gathering to Implementation.
• 84 months experience with Center for Medicaid/Medicare Systems Standards and Codes such as EDI 837, EDI 834, ICD Codes, HIPPA etc. and various CMS Medicaid Reports such as TMSIS, CMS64 etc.
• 64 Months experience in the analysis, design and testing of enterprise applications using JAVA/J2EE, XML, SOAP, DB2/Oracle and Web Services.
• 36 months experience in a large volume Data Warehouse Environment processing billions of health care records, understanding of various ETL Databases like Source, Staging and Publishing and the related Row and Column Level security.
• Masters/ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology.

We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other protected basis.