Responsibilities
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Serve as the principal architect for designing data systems to support AIR’s health research projects, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reproducibility.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Lead cross-functional teams in the development of innovative data solutions, using tools such as Databricks; R (the R statistical programming language); Python; Stata; SAS (Statistical Analysis System); and Git within Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) environments, including the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW), and Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC).
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Provide strategic oversight of data management and analytics pipelines, including governance, automation, and quality assurance.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Design and implement advanced statistical programming methodologies for complex longitudinal, hierarchical, and multi-source datasets.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Act as a senior advisor to project directors, statisticians, and clients on data strategy, analytic design, and technical feasibility.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Spearhead the development of enterprise-wide programming standards, reusable assets, and documentation practices.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Mentor and coach senior programmers and analysts, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Lead technical contributions to proposals, including conceptualizing analytic frameworks, developing budgets, and writing compelling technical narratives.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Represent AIR in high-level client engagements, conferences, and professional forums, showcasing AIR’s capabilities and thought leadership.
- Project Leadership & Oversight - Monitor emerging technologies and trends in data science and health analytics, recommending strategic investments and innovations.
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Working with AIR’s program area leadership and functional leadership to create business development strategy for established areas and specific new areas of growth identify new opportunities, including:
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Coordinating pursuit plans and pipelines for federal opportunities.
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Supporting bid/no‑bid decisions and ensuring alignment with AIR capabilities and priorities.
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Leading or contributing to proposal pursuits: conceptualizing bid strategies, developing research and monitoring approaches, drafting proposal content, and conducting technical reviews.
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Cultivating and maintaining relationships with potential partners, funders, and federal clients.
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Monitoring ongoing projects to understand client expectations, anticipate needs, and identify opportunities and challenges across the portfolio.
- Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth - Assessing staff capacity and helping align resources to support both project delivery and new business pursuits.
- Team Leadership, Staff Development & Collaboration - Foster cross‑functional collaboration across analytics, communications, data management, TA, and operations teams to ensure integrated, high‑quality project delivery.
- Team Leadership, Staff Development & Collaboration - Provide coaching and support to rising project leaders in effective project management, quality assurance, client communication, and staff supervision.
- Team Leadership, Staff Development & Collaboration - Contribute to a collaborative environment that values and respects a wide range of perspectives, abilities, backgrounds, and experiences.
- Thought Leadership & External Engagement - Represent AIR in federal stakeholder meetings, technical discussions, and conferences.
- Thought Leadership & External Engagement - Collaborate with AIR’s communications teams to translate implementation and monitoring insights into publications, briefs, and presentations.
- Thought Leadership & External Engagement - Contribute to AIR’s visibility and reputation in federal health program implementation, monitoring, and TA.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Structure: cross-functional teams
Additional Information
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis.
- Employment-based visa sponsorship (including H-1B sponsorship) is not available for this position.
- Depending on project work, qualified candidates may need to meet certain residency requirements.
- All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo reference and background checks.
- AIR maintains a drug-free work environment.
