DATABASE SPECIALIST II

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750 East Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21202

The Data Analyst provides highly technical health care data analysis services to enable the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to meet reporting requirements and support management decision making and strategic planning. The position performs ad-hoc data analysis and develops as-needed reports for internal management use or for external stakeholders. The position develops a variety of reports on statistics and operational metrics for submission to the Department of Health and Human Services, employers, other state agencies and consumers. The position also supports the User Acceptance Testing process.

Utilize and support database applications and analytical tools to evaluate data quality, applications, and functions; produce output; and maintain operations. Provide technical consultation to MHBE management and staff, functioning as subject matter expert for agency data analysis. Interpret data analyses to support management decision-making and strategic planning.

Analyze business processes, procedures, and problems to develop database or data solutions to meet business, application, and system design requirements. Identify opportunities for sharing commonly used data internally and externally. Perform data integration, data profiling, and data cleansing through the use of third-party software tools. Create and maintain data field definitions, data entities, attributes, and relationships.

Develop, implement, and maintain an agency level data dictionary and metadata repository. Advise users on the availability, accessibility, and usage of MHBE data. Design, develop, and maintain queries and reports utilizing agency data. Produce and generate reports elements identified for performance measurement.

Produce reports to meet the following objectives and requirements; support program requirements and management.  Perform statistical programming utilizing a variety of statistical software packages to summarize data and create reports and/or visual presentations.   Produce a variety of ad hoc reports for senior management.  Develop graphs, reports, and presentations to aid in the review interpretation and analysis of data. Perform statistical analyses for projects and reports.   Perform data entry, as needed or required.   Perform related duties as required, support User Acceptance Testing activities (UAT)  

Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or other information technology related field to include course work in database management systems.

Experience: One year of experience designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and controlling database management systems for computers.

Notes:

1. Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate plus thirty credit hours from an accredited college or university in Computer Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or other information technology-related field to include course work in database management systems may be substituted for the required education.

2. Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and one additional year of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining applications systems and programs using generally accepted computer programming languages or maintaining and modifying operating systems for computers may be substituted for the required education.

3. Experience operating computer systems; or scheduling, controlling input and output or maintaining a tape library to process data on computer systems; or converting data from project specifications by developing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages may be substituted for high school education on a year-for-year basis.

4. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer in Database Administration classifications or Database Administration specialty codes in the Information Technology field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience and education.

Employees in this classification may be subject to call 24 hours a day and, therefore, may be required to provide the employing agency with a telephone number where the employee can be reached or will be furnished with a pager.

The assessment may consist of a rating of your education, training and experience related to the requirements of the position. The rating may also be based on your application. Therefore, it is important that you provide complete and accurate information on your application. Report all education and experience related to this position. Qualified candidates will be rated as either Best Qualified, Better Qualified, or Qualified and placed on the eligible list for a period of at least one year.

STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS  

Please make sure that you provide sufficient information on your application to show that you meet the qualifications of this recruitment.  All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date.  We will not consider information submitted after this date.

The online application process is strongly advised, if the online process is not available to you, you may complete and submit a completed paper application along with the supplemental questions to:

Shadrick Phillips

Maryland Health Benefit Exchange

750 East Pratt St., 16th Floor

Baltimore, Maryland 21202

TTY  Users: call via Maryland Relay 1-800-735-2258

As an equal opportunity employer Maryland is committed to recruiting, retaining and promoting employees who are reflective of the State’s diversity.

We thank our Veterans for their service to our country, and encourage them to apply.