Junior Python Programmer, Analyst
RTI International
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $69,000 - $85,000 per year
Job Level
Junior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Developing coding expertise and best practices to query, merge, and analyze complex healthcare data from large relational databases
- 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
- Iteratively developing and maintaining Python code while adopting best practices for increasing efficiency, minimizing computational errors, implementing process improvements, and other approaches that add value to business processes and analytic results
- 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 as needed
- Constructing analytic datasets and databases to support deliverables for various public health and healthcare financing engagements
- Collaborating with project team members to review, critically evaluate, and refine business requirements, and then translate those requirements into programming logic
- Adopting and refining technical skills on projects, including working independently, proactively resolving day-to-day issues of small complexity, and leveraging coding best practices and standards
Requirements
- BS/BA or advanced degree in data science, computer science, statistics, social sciences, health policy or related field with an emphasis on analytic programming using Python or SQL.
- Minimum of 1 year of academic experience with Python or SQL analytical coding with demonstrated familiarity with the linkage of various types of data files
- Experience designing and implementing flexible, reusable, scalable, programming code
- Commitment to analytic programming quality and best practices, including experience with QA/QC procedures (e.g., peer review of code, parallel programming)
- Familiarity with all phases of the Analytic Development Life Cycle and demonstrated experience in working with at least 1 of these phases
- Organizational and planning skills that enable independent work while contributing to a team effort
- Analytic thinker with exceptional attention to quality and detail
- Good interpersonal skills, including written and oral English-language skills, the ability to effectively manage competing deadlines, and the ability to work independently on a day-to-day basis while regularly collaborating with project teams
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, have lived in the United States for at least 3 of the last 5 years, and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
Benefits
- competitive base salary
- generous paid time off policy
- merit based annual increases
- bonus opportunities
- robust recognition program
- competitive range of insurance plans
- access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan
- paid parental leave for all parents
- financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments
- financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities
- employee assistance program
- numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PythonSQLdata analysisquantitative methodsdata mergingdata standardizationcode reviewQA/QC proceduresanalytic programmingprogramming logic
Soft skills
organizational skillsplanning skillsinterpersonal skillsattention to detailanalytic thinkingindependent workteam collaborationcommunication skillsproblem-solvingtime management
Certifications
BS/BA in data scienceBS/BA in computer scienceBS/BA in statisticsBS/BA in social sciencesBS/BA in health policy