Applications Systems Programmer jobs in Pittsburgh, PA

The Youth and Family Training Institute (YFTI) provides comprehensive training, coaching, credentialing, and evaluation of High Fidelity Wraparound programs across the state. The YFTI Evaluation Department also contracts with providers, counties, and states to provide evaluation services to federal and state grants and contracts, specializing in individualized data collection and visualization. This position will be within the Data Management division of the Evaluation Team and will report to the division Manager.

The candidate will assist in the development, creation, implementation, and analysis of various projects.  The candidate should be comfortable with the design and development of databases in MS SQL Server, MS Access frontends, and dashboards.  Additionally, the candidate should be able to properly document their work and review other team members’ code for auditing purposes.  

This is a remote position.

This position is grant funded.

Purpose:
Under the general direction of the division Manager, the employee will assist with design and development of databases in MS SQL Server, MS Access frontends, and dashboards.  Using their programming capabilities, database management knowledge, and statistical knowledge, they will contribute to the implementation of various projects/protocols. 

Responsibilities:

• Provides ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting for staff as necessary.
• Develop and disseminate data management and tracking as needed.
• Assists with the creation, institution and enforcement of data collection and management policies and procedures, including the design of standard reports, database documentation, quality control procedures and security standards.
• Assists with the design, implementation, and maintenance of forms and imports for data collection.
• Independently perform statistical analysis and design and produce reports and dashboards as needed by projects.
• Communicate effectively with the research, clinical and administrative staff to maintain efficient communication about data gathering, data entry and statistical analysis.