Public Health Informatics Lead

Job Family :
Data Science & Analysis

Travel Required :
Up to 10%

Clearance Required :
Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do :

Guidehouse is seeking a Public Health Informatics Lead to provide strategic and technical leadership for public health interoperability, surveillance modernization, and data exchange initiatives. This individual will serve as the senior informatics authority responsible for developing interoperability strategies, guiding standards implementation, leading complex integration efforts, and supporting modernization of public health information systems.

The Public Health Informatics Lead will work closely with epidemiology, biostatistics, analytics modernization, and data engineering leadership to ensure public health systems are interoperable, scalable, standards-based, and aligned with evolving public health data modernization objectives.

• Serve as the lead public health informatics advisor across surveillance, interoperability, public health modernization, and health information exchange initiatives.
• Lead design and implementation of standards-based public health data exchange architectures supporting ELR, eCR, case surveillance, laboratory reporting, and population health programs.
• Define interoperability strategies leveraging HL7 v2, CDA, FHIR, APIs, and emerging public health exchange frameworks.
• Lead requirements development, interoperability assessments, system integration planning, and modernization roadmaps.
• Guide implementation of healthcare and public health standards including HL7, FHIR, CDA, LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, and USCDI.
• Advise clients and stakeholders on data modernization, interoperability policy, information architecture, workflow transformation, and public health systems strategy.
• Lead onboarding, testing, validation, certification, and operationalization activities for public health data exchange initiatives.
• Collaborate with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, architects, engineers, and public health leaders to align technical solutions with surveillance and program needs.
• Provide technical oversight of integration vendors, development teams, and interoperability projects.
• Lead development of implementation guides, governance frameworks, standards documentation, and best practices.
• Mentor public health informaticists and provide thought leadership on emerging interoperability trends and public health technologies.
• Support proposal development, solution architecture, and strategic planning efforts requiring public health informatics expertise.
• Role is contingent upon award

What You Will Need :

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident. and must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS "PUBLIC TRUST
• Bachelor's degree in Public Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Public Health, or related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• EIGHT (8) or more years of experience supporting public health informatics, interoperability, surveillance systems, health information exchange, or healthcare technology initiatives.
• Experience serving as a lead informaticist, interoperability lead, technical advisor, solution lead, or public health modernization leader.
• Experience with HL7 v2 messaging, Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR), Electronic Case Reporting (eCR), Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), and API-based exchange patterns.
• Experience designing and implementing public health interoperability architectures supporting surveillance, laboratory, provider, and public health information exchange.
• Knowledge of healthcare and public health standards including HL7, FHIR, CDA, LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, USCDI, and public health implementation guides.
• Experience leading interoperability onboarding, validation, testing, certification, and production implementation efforts.
• Experience translating policy, business, surveillance, and operational requirements into technical specifications and system designs.
• Experience supporting public health data modernization and surveillance modernization initiatives.

What Would Be Nice To Have :

• Master's degree in Public Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Public Health, Information Systems, or related field.
• Strong understanding of public health surveillance operations, reporting workflows, data governance, and information management practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting CDC, state, tribal, local, or territorial health departments.
• Experience with HIV surveillance processes and data
• Experience implementing FHIR-based public health exchange and interoperability frameworks.
• Experience with electronic case reporting (eCR), electronic laboratory reporting (ELR), disease surveillance systems, and notifiable condition reporting.
• Experience supporting public health data modernization initiatives.
• Experience implementing interoperability solutions using cloud-native architectures and modern API platforms.
• Experience with health information exchanges (HIEs), public health registries, and laboratory information management systems.
• HL7, FHIR, or related interoperability certifications.
• Experience with public health informatics governance and standards development.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical and public health teams.

The annual salary range for this position is $92,000.00-$153,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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