Data Manager / Data Scientist (Remote)

SUMMARY

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Division of Communicable Disease Control (DCDC) and Heluna Health are recruiting for a Data Manager/Data Scientist for the CDPH Wastewater Surveillance Program, an enhanced surveillance system that utilizes wastewater data to augment other infectious disease surveillance data to inform epidemiologic and public health needs.

This position is supported by the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) cooperative agreement.

The CDPH Wastewater Surveillance Program is a national Center of Excellence and a part of the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS).

Wastewater, or sewage, can be tested for RNA from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as for other infectious diseases of public health importance (e.g., influenza, mpox, norovirus).

Viral/pathogen concentrations can then be used to provide information about level of disease activity in the community.

This position will serve as a data manager on the CDPH wastewater surveillance team and is responsible for database management, data systems design, quality control and assurance, data stewardship and governance, data dictionary and standards, and data analysis.

The wastewater surveillance Data Manager/Data Scientist will serve as data steward and will be responsible for data infrastructure and governance on a team of epidemiologists and data scientists all working on subsets of wastewater surveillance data to ensure data flows are connecting seamlessly across the ecosystem.

The Data Manager/Data Scientist works with others on the wastewater surveillance team to develop and implement sophisticated, complex data processing workflows to support analyses for monitoring SARS CoV-2 and other pathogens in wastewater and improve efficiency and automation.

Specifically, the Data Manager/Data Scientist will develop workflows to efficiently integrate data from multiple sources.

The Data Manager/Data Scientist also conceives of and oversees the implementation and validation of new automation processes and provides documentation of script changes and data system protocols.

The Data Manager/Data Scientist builds upon and reiterates existing data flow infrastructure to improve database efficiency and organization to better utilize wastewater surveillance data ecosystem.

The Data Manager/Data Scientist will work closely in collaboration with wastewater analysis laboratories on data and data systems including potentially with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), as well as data submitted from wastewater utilities.

The Data Manager/Data Scientist will also work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the California State Water Resources Control Board (CA State Water Board) on data standards and formatting, and automated data transmission through application programming interfaces (APIs).

This position will work with local health depar...