Senior Database Lead - Public Health Data Analytics Remote

University of Michigan; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

The Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan is seeking a Database Analyst/Programmer Senior to lead data analytics and programming for the MiSCDC program, supporting public health surveillance and research.

You will design and maintain complex relational databases, oversee data integration, quality assurance, and reporting, and collaborate with investigators and clinicians to enable data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Biostatistics, Statistics, Public Health, Health Informatics, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Significant professional experience in database programming, health data analytics, public health informatics, or data management with progressive responsibility.
• Extensive experience using SAS for data management, dataset construction, matching and merging complex data sources, and macro programming.
• Advanced experience with data quality assurance processes.
• Experience working with large administrative, clinical, public health, or healthcare claims databases.
• Experience integrating and linking data from multiple sources to create longitudinal surveillance, research, or analytic datasets.
• Experience developing data management, validation, and reporting processes.
• Excellent documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in database architecture, dataset development, data governance, and programming standards.
• Develop and manage datasets from healthcare data sources using SAS, SQL, or similar tools.
• Design, implement, and maintain complex relational databases and analytic data sets supporting MiSCDC and related research, public health surveillance, quality improvement, and operational initiatives.
• Design, test, and optimize programming code to acquire, integrate, link, validate, and analyze large multi-source datasets.
• Apply health informatics and basic descriptive statistics methods to support public health surveillance, research, quality measurement, and program evaluation.
• Conduct data quality reviews, data linkage, validation activities, and healthcare quality measure testing.
• Collaborate with faculty, investigators, clinicians, and staff on database design, programming, and data management strategies.
• Contribute to study design, analysis, manuscripts, presentations, grant proposals, reports, and dissemination of findings.
• Maintain data dictionaries, technical documentation, code repositories, and programming standards.

Skills

SAS programming

SQL databases

Data analysis

Health informatics

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Biostatistics, Statistics, Public Health, Health Informatics, or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

GitHub

ETL

Job description

The Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan is seeking a Database Analyst/Programmer Senior to lead data analytics and programming for the MiSCDC program, supporting public health surveillance and research.

You will design and maintain complex relational databases, oversee data integration, quality assurance, and reporting, and collaborate with investigators and clinicians to enable data-driven decisions.