Programmer Analyst
Mass General BrighamAbout the role
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
SummaryResponsible for designing, creating, deploying, and updating programs for a particular device, the web, or a specific operating system. May require online learning and completion of interactive certification training.
Does this position require Patient Care?
No
Essential Functions
-Build and maintain assigned application(s) and responds to problems as they arise.
-Collaborate with the rest of the team to ensure applications align with organizational goals as well as customer needs.
-Oversee the performance of applications to ensure they are always running properly.
-Complete application development and process improvement tasks as assigned.
-Complete project documentation and project artifacts for all new developments.
-Develop and execute unit and integration testing.
-Stay on track of the application lifecycle to ensure necessary updates are completed on time.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science required or Bachelor's Degree Computer Applications required or Bachelor's Degree Related Field of Study required
Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
Yes
Licenses and Credentials
Experience
Applications Development Experience 0-1 year required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Understanding of core programming principles, including design.
- Ability to work in at least one programming language (ex: JavaScript, SQL, etc.).
- Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Strong project management skills.
- Excellent communications skills both written and oral.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Do you want the code you write to have global social impact? To work on projects that are directly focused on improving human health? Our research group at Massachusetts General Hospital seeks a talented, motivated, full-time scientific programmer/software developer to join our team. We collaborate with health organizations and research groups around the world to inform health policy by using simulation models to project health outcomes and conduct clinical and public health decision analyses, including cost-effectiveness, probabilistic sensitivity, and value of information analyses. We work on a wide variety of projects, focusing on both infectious diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and congenital cytomegalovirus) and non-communicable diseases (e.g., diabetes, health impacts of e-cigarettes/smoking). As a programmer in our group, you will have the opportunity to learn about public health issues while using your software skills to help solve global health problems.
Interested candidates should apply via www.massgeneral.org/careers.
**When applying, please include a cover letter along with your resume. Applications that do not include both components will NOT be considered.**
For more information regarding our group, please visit https://mpec.massgeneral.org.
As part of a small team of programmers embedded within a public health and health policy research group, you may contribute to a variety of programming and software development tasks including, for example:
• Developing and maintaining decision-analytic simulation models across the lifespan for HIV, tuberculosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, congenital cytomegalovirus, ANCA-associated vasculitis, e-cigarette use, and/or smoking through:
o Coding, debugging, and testing new features
o Optimizing models, with a focus on speed and memory usage
o Developing user interfaces for model input/output
o Consulting with research personnel on model structure and parameterization
• Developing new and existing user interfaces, web apps, and data analysis/visualization tools
• Meeting regularly with research personnel to devise innovative and scientifically appropriate solutions to modeling and data ana
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