Position Justification

• The position is responsible for providing ongoing maintenance and support of the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS).
• MDSS is a complex application that supports communicable disease surveillance, registries, and case management systems that are critical to supporting effective responses to public health emergencies and reducing the burden of communicable diseases.
• MDSS is going through modernization to enhance stability and functionality of the system. With phase 1 already completed.
• The resource is integral to developing and maintaining and enhancing MDHHS’ MDSS phase 1.
• Making sure automated processes are funtioning, streamlining critical business processes, data integrity, SEM/SUITE compliance, and securing the application.
• The resource also performs as a technical lead and provides technical guidance to the other developers in the department.
• As a technical lead, the resource participates in a variety of analytical assignments that provide for the enhancement, integration, maintenance, and implementation of projects.
• The resource will also provides technical oversight to other developers in the team that support other critical applications .
• Not having a resource on staff will lead to MDHSS failing to maintain, enhance, and support the modernized MDSS that can lead to errors causing application outages, data integrity issues and can eventually lead to incorrect information being processed and reporting of the patient information.
  
  

Position Summary

• Lead the design and development of scalable and high-performance solutions using AWS services.
• Experience with Databricks, Elastic search, Kibanna, S3.
• Experience with Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes and data pipelines.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Python/Scala.
• Experience with AWS Cloud-based Application Development
• Experience in Electronic Health Records (EHR) HL7 solutions.
• Implement and manage Elastic Search engine for efficient data retrieval and analysis.
• Experience with data warehousing, data visualization Tools, data integrity
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC) including experience in gathering requirements and writing functional/technical specifications for complex projects.
• Excellent knowledge in designing both logical and physical database model
• Develop database objects including stored procedures, functions,
• Extensive knowledge on source control tools such as GIT
• Develop software design documents and work with stakeholders for review and approval.
• Exposure to flowcharts, screen layouts and documentation to ensure logical flow of the system requirements
• Experience working on large agile projects.
• Experience or Knowledge on creating CI/CD pipelines using Azure Devops
  
  

Skill Descriptions

• 12+ years developing complex database systems.
• 8+ years Databricks.
• 8+ years using Elastic search, Kibanna.
• 8+ years using Python/Scala.
• 8+ years Oracle.
• 5+ years’ experience with Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes and developing Data Pipelines.
• 5+ years experience with AWS.
• Over 5+ years experience with data warehousing, data visualization Tools, data integrity
• Over 5+ years using CMM/CMMI Level 3 methods and practices.
• Over 5+ years implemented agile development processes including test driven development.
• Over 3+ years’ Experience or Knowledge on creating CI/CD pipelines using Azure Devops- Nice to have
  
  

Additional Info

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FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
  
  

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

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