Birth Defect Analyst

• Birth Defect Analyst
• Columbus, Ohio
• ASAP - 12/20/2026
• NTE 280 Hours. Remote work . Flexible schedule. Interview via Teams
• Fingerprint background checks are a requirement
• Must be local or within a one hour drive

This position will support the Data and Surveillance Section of the Bureau of Maternal, Child, and Family Health Experience collecting and managing birth defect data.

• Experience collecting and managing birth defect data from the State of Ohio Department of Health agency via the Innovate Ohio Platform (IOP).
• Experience using Snowflake/ANSI SQL to select and transform data as needed. SQL experience must include data conversion, pivots, and logical assignments.
• Experience creating views or temporary tables within a sandbox database and/or schema to facilitate more complex queries.
• Experience working with business users to understand and document their analytics and reporting requirements.
• Experience developing complex reports and dashboards for state and federal reporting.
• Experience with all types of testing from unit to system and user acceptance testing, developing test cases and scenarios along with business users, reporting and tracking defects, and triaging/resolving issues.
• Experience training business users on analytic tools and data structures.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Day-to-Day responsibilities include but not limited to:
• Translate existing SQL queries built in the HUE Cloudera to execute on the Snowflake platform.
• Meet with epidemiologists to develop SQL queries that incorporate program-based logic models based on reporting requirements and data structure.
• Answer questions from epidemiologists about the structure, syntax, logic, and design of SQL queries during the collaborative development process.
• · Create queries for line listed data, incorporating variables from many different data tables.
• · Create summary queries of aggregate data using multiple stratification criteria and validate using existing canned reports.
• · Utilize innovative approaches to develop data cleaning queries within complex data structures that identify sites and/or cases that require follow up.
• · Modify and trouble-shoot queries during user acceptance testing to validate query functionality.
• · Provide detailed documentation within each query that clearly defines the logic and expected outputs for each section of coding (e.g., exclusions, calculated variables, sub-queries, stratification).