The Role
Serve as the applied-practice voice linking epidemiologists and investigators to product and engineering teams. Validate workflows, review condition-specific content, advise on surveillance data integrations (ELR, eCR, syndromic, vital records, immunizations), run usability sessions, write acceptance criteria, and represent public health in leadership and STLT engagement activities.
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We are seeking an Epidemiology and Surveillance SME to keep a surveillance system modernization grounded in how epidemiologists and disease investigators actually work. This role puts applied public health experience at the table where product and engineering decisions get made.
About This Role
As the Epidemiology and Surveillance SME, you keep the program grounded in applied public health practice. You validate that what the teams build reflects how epidemiologists and disease investigators actually work, from case investigation workflows to the surveillance data streams that feed them. You are the voice in the room asking whether a feature will survive contact with a real outbreak.
What You'll Do
Ground the system in practice
What You Bring
Logistics and Classification
Salary Information
We are seeking an Epidemiology and Surveillance SME to keep a surveillance system modernization grounded in how epidemiologists and disease investigators actually work. This role puts applied public health experience at the table where product and engineering decisions get made.
About This Role
As the Epidemiology and Surveillance SME, you keep the program grounded in applied public health practice. You validate that what the teams build reflects how epidemiologists and disease investigators actually work, from case investigation workflows to the surveillance data streams that feed them. You are the voice in the room asking whether a feature will survive contact with a real outbreak.
What You'll Do
Ground the system in practice
- Align system functionality, workflows, and data models with real-world case surveillance and investigation processes, evolving public health policies, and jurisdiction program needs
- Validate that system features reflect epidemiologist and disease investigator workflows before they ship
- Review condition-specific investigation content for epidemiologic soundness
- Advise on integration of core surveillance data streams: ELR, eCR, syndromic surveillance, vital records, and immunizations
- Support prioritization and iterative solution development using human-centered design principles
- Help define the metrics that show whether delivered solutions actually serve public health agencies and end users
- Participate in cross-contract leadership forums so public health perspectives are represented in program decisions
- Support the program user community of practice and STLT engagement activities
- Capture, synthesize, and report jurisdiction feedback to the customer team
- Join backlog refinement and design reviews as the applied-practice voice; write and validate acceptance criteria for surveillance features
- Run workflow walkthroughs and usability sessions with jurisdiction users, then translate findings into concrete design changes
- Review upcoming release content for workflow regressions an investigator would feel immediately
- Contribute to community-of-practice sessions and synthesize what jurisdictions are telling the program
- Advise the informatician and engineers when epidemiologic intent and technical implementation drift apart
What You Bring
- Advanced degree in epidemiology or public health (MPH, DrPH, or PhD)
- Applied surveillance experience at a state, local, or federal public health agency
- Working knowledge of nationally notifiable disease reporting and case investigation workflows
- Integrated disease surveillance system experience as a practitioner
- Experience advising software teams or participating in agile delivery
- National notifiable disease reporting and case notification familiarity
- Outbreak response experience
Logistics and Classification
- Location: remote (contractor facility), with core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET.
- Occasional domestic travel to client and stakeholder sites.
- All personnel must be able to obtain a federal background investigation commensurate with position sensitivity and a PIV credential. No security clearance is required.
- This position is contingent upon contract award, with an anticipated start in October 2026.
Salary Information
- $110,000.00 to $120,000.00 - commensurate with experience and skillset
Skills Required
- Advanced degree in epidemiology or public health (MPH, DrPH, or PhD)
- Applied surveillance experience at a state, local, or federal public health agency
- Working knowledge of nationally notifiable disease reporting and case investigation workflows
- Ability to obtain a federal background investigation and a PIV credential
- Core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET
- Ability to travel domestically on occasion to client and stakeholder sites
- Integrated disease surveillance system experience as a practitioner
- Experience advising software teams or participating in agile delivery
- National notifiable disease reporting and case notification familiarity
- Outbreak response experience
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The Company
What We Do
Development InfoStructure, LLC. (Devis) is a leading provider of IT consulting services and solutions to the Federal, State and Local Governments, as well as the international development community. Devis helps maximize your return on IT investment by: 1) working with the best-adapted programming languages, databases and other solutions for your specific project; 2) actively supporting the open source community; and 3) using and promoting open technology standards. Devis has extensive experience with world wide software deployments and support. Our systems operate in more than 80 countries, and in every federal department. Devis-built systems involve the full vertical spectrum of users from data entry clerks to Governement managers to Congress
