RTI International - Durham, NC
posted 3 months ago
RTI's Division of Healthcare Payment and Quality in the Health Practice Area is seeking dynamic and detail-oriented candidates for a full-time Programmer / Analyst with Python analytic programming experience. The Programmer / Analyst will work with researcher teams to analyze and synthesize complex qualitative and quantitative administrative health data from multiple sources into meaningful results. Individuals in this role will provide analytic development and statistical programming knowledge to project teams conducting research using healthcare data, especially large and complex health insurance claims and survey data, in a fast-paced environment. This position is based in Research Triangle Park, NC; Waltham, MA; Washington, DC; or any other U.S. location as a telecommuter. Core responsibilities include applying coding expertise and best practices to query, merge, and analyze complex healthcare data from large relational databases. The role requires leveraging a variety of quantitative methods to standardize, blend, and distill data from multiple disparate sources, transforming them into analytic insights for use in client reports, journal manuscripts, abstracts, or posters for professional meetings. The Programmer / Analyst will iteratively develop and maintain Python code with an emphasis on increasing efficiency, minimizing computational errors, implementing process improvements, and other approaches that add value to business processes and analytic results. Additionally, the role involves participating in thorough code review and documentation, as well as parallel coding efforts for other programmers to maintain quality standards and ensure that code may be efficiently transferred among team members. The position also includes constructing analytic datasets and databases to support deliverables for various public health and healthcare financing engagements. Collaboration with project team members to review, critically evaluate, and refine business requirements, and then translate those requirements into programming logic is essential. The Programmer / Analyst will demonstrate emerging functional leadership skills on projects, including working independently, proactively resolving day-to-day issues of small complexity, adopting sound coding best practices and standards, and developing these behaviors among early-career staff. Approximately 15% of working time will require supporting strategic initiatives within the larger programming group and health practice area, such as studying emerging technologies, partnering with senior technical staff members within and across projects, and collaborating with analysts and other programmers to support research objectives. Participation in continuing education courses on healthcare-related and/or technical coding topics is also expected, along with sharing insights gained from these activities with fellow programmers, leaders, and other division staff through presentations and contributions to collective codebase utilities.