Temporary Programmer Analyst-Office of Shared Administration-Kanawha Co.

Temporary Programmer Analyst-Office of Shared Administration-Kanawha Co.

Salary

See Position Description

Location

Kanawha County, WV

Job Type

Full-Time Temporary

Job Number

TPA-OSA

Department

• Not in the Classified Service, See Posting

Opening Date

11/10/2026

Closing Date

12/10/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

LOCATION OF VACANCY

KANAWHA

Civil Service Type:

Non-Covered - This Position is Not Covered OR Classified Under the DOP Merit System

Skills Based Hiring:

Yes

• Description
• Benefits

Nature of Work

HOW TO APPLY: Email resume to osajobs@wv.gov

with the job title in the subject line

TEMPORARY PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Agency: West Virginia Departments of Health, Health Facilities, and Human Services Office of Shared Administration (OSA) - Office of Management Information Services (MIS)

Location: Charleston, WV (or as designated)

Position Type: Full-Time, State Government

Salary: $48,098 - $84,558

TEMPORARY PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Make a Direct Impact on Public Health

Join the Office of Management Information Services to build, maintain, and safeguard the vital data pipelines that protect communities across West Virginia. In this role, you will be the backbone of our public health technology infrastructure-ensuring life-saving clinical information, lab results, and epidemiologic data flow seamlessly and securely across the state.

If you are driven by mission-focused public service and thrive working with mission-critical health data architectures, this is your opportunity to do meaningful, statewide work.

What You Will Do

Working in the Office of Management Information Services, this position will maintain a stand-alone, complex information system for certifying and auditing data transmissions from Laboratories, Electronic Medical or Health Records (EMR, EHR) and other Health data from various sources.

You will maintain Rhapsody systems ensuring consistent data delivery from labs and hospitals, update and maintain the WVEDSS application and servers, and perform other duties as assigned. Additionally, the position will provide support of existing clinical data interfaces to and from the Office of Laboratory Services, and to and from Office of Epidemiology Services systems.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Duties

• System Maintenance & Data Certification: Under administrative direction, maintain a stand-alone complex information system for certifying and auditing data transmissions from laboratories, electronic medical or health records (EMR, EHR), and other health data from various sources.

• Integration Engine Oversight: Maintain the Rhapsody system, ensuring consistent data delivery from labs and hospitals.

• Application & Infrastructure Support: Support the WVEDSS IT manager to update and maintain the WVEDSS applications and servers; conduct test runs, troubleshooting/debugging programs from test results; and use certified data to test and verify new application releases installed in the test environment.

• Data Extraction & Analytics Collaboration: Work with the Programmer Analyst in the Division of Infectious Disease (DIDE) to develop SQL/SAS-based programs to extract data from WVEDSS for various reports and detailed analysis.

• Inter-Agency & Partner Integration: Work with the West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN), hospital laboratories, state public health laboratory, and other major commercial labs in establishing and maintaining Electronic Case Reporting including related activities.

• Federal & Grant Representation: Represent the Agency to CDC with regards to project development and progress to meet program and grant-based objectives.

Desired Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Familiarity highly desired: XML, HL7, and JavaScript.

• Background or working knowledge in health informatics, clinical integration engines (Rhapsody), interface maintenance, or electronic disease surveillance systems (WVEDSS).

• Experience with health data reporting standards (EMR/EHR data feeds, Electronic Case Reporting).

Minimum Qualifications

Training: Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in computer science or related field including but not limited to business data programming, business systems analysis, computer accounting, computer and information systems, computer servicing technologies, information systems management, data processing, or computer engineering.

OR

An Associates degree from an accredited college, university or business school in computer science or related field including but not limited to business data programming, business systems analysis, computer accounting, computer and information systems, computer servicing technologies, information systems management, data processing, or computer engineering and eighteen months of full-time or equivalent part-time paid computer programming experience in one or more programming or data base languages.

Substitution: Three years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid computer programming experience in one or more programming or data base languages may substitute for the required training.

Experience: Two years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid computer programming experience in one or more programming or data base languages, including one year of analysis work.

Other Information

Agency Substitution or Supplemental Requirement:

Masters Degree in computer science or related field including but not limited to business data programming, business systems analysis, computer accounting, computer and information systems, computer servicing technologies, information systems management, data processing, or computer engineering would be equivalent to 2 years of the required experience.

Job not in the classified service. See the hiring agency for a description of benefits.

Employer West Virginia

Address 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East

Building 3 Suite 500

Charleston, West Virginia, 25305

Phone (304) 558-3950

Website http://personnel.wv.gov