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This contract Epidemiologist position is located within the Tennessee Department of Health’s Division of Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP). This position will support the CEDEP Strategic Initiatives team to advance Division-wide strategic planning efforts. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Provide epidemiological support of Division-wide strategic initiatives by conducting routine and ad hoc analyses while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information. Prepare presentations on analyses to support data-informed decision making by Division leaders

• Develop and manage REDCap databases while ensuring data quality; create routine and ad hoc reports to support grant and legislative reporting and evolving team or Division needs

• Lead the development of a year-end annual report highlighting Division-wide metrics

• Support CEDEP strategic planning efforts, such as participating in working groups, collecting and managing data, and developing high-level summaries and visualizations

• Create and maintain Tableau dashboards to track CEDEP strategic planning efforts and the rollout of a statewide Mental Health First Aid initiative

• Collaborate with team members, Division leaders, and program epidemiologists to evaluate and maintain HIPAA hybrid data sharing agreements

• Participate in team meetings and contribute to programmatic discussions to advance team or Division priorities

Core Tasks

• Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Serivces and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.

• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.

• Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.

• Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.

• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.

• Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.

• Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.

• Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.

• Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).

• Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.

• Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.

• Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.

• Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.

• Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.