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About the Role We are seeking an experienced SAS Programmer / Developer Programmer Analyst with strong healthcare/public health domain expertise to support the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and its Birth Defects Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch (BDESB). Key Responsibilities • Assess and develop solutions for integrating electronic initial case reports (eICRs) into the Texas Birth Defects Registry (TBIRDS). • Develop SAS/Python/R scripts to automate healthcare data extraction, transformation, validation, and ingestion. • Automate data population, case triaging, and clinical review workflows. • Build dashboards to monitor data ingestion, quality, validation errors, and automation performance. • Perform data matching, linkage, standardization, and interoperability testing. • Document technical requirements, workflows, programming solutions, and system specifications. • Collaborate with epidemiologists, healthcare professionals, and technical teams to improve public health data modernization. Requirements • 12+ years of overall IT experience. • 8+ years of hands-on SAS and Python programming. • Strong SAS, Python, and/or R programming experience. • Healthcare / Public Health data integration experience. • EHR, eCR/eICR, HL7, FHIR, XML, and CDA. • SQL, relational databases, and complex data processing. • Automated ETL/ELT pipelines and data ingestion. • Data extraction, mapping, standardization, validation, and linkage. • Dashboard development using Power BI, Tableau, SAS Visual Analytics, or similar tools. • Healthcare interoperability and system-to-system integration. IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS • Candidates MUST currently reside in Texas within a 50-mile radius of Austin. • No out-of-state candidates or candidates planning to relocate. • F2F interview is mandatory. • W2 only; no C2C.