Employment Listing: Programmer Analyst, Maine Health Data Organization

CODE:  086585    PAY GRADE:  23    ($40,060.80 - $54,891.20/yr.)*

Value of State-paid Health and Dental Insurance: $322.97 biweekly
Value of State's share of Employee's Retirement: 18.46% of pay

* Includes a 15% recruitment and retention salary adjustment and 5% annual training bonu

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This is technical services work involving the development and maintenance of databases and computer programs.  Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining application programs.  This classification may be transitional in nature as assignments and skill building can be directed toward either more complex programming or systems analysis activities.  Supervision may be exercised over computer programmers for specific assignments.  Work may involve frequent communications with users.  Programmer Analysts are increasingly responsible for developing program specifications, analyzing and designing small systems or sub-systems, and performing programming work of greater breadth and complexity.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

In order to qualify, you must have two and one half (2½) years applications systems development experience utilizing a high level language.  A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent subject area may be substituted for one (1) year of application systems development experience.  Preference will be given to candidates with both database programming and web application skills, as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office XP or 2003 to include programming complex Access database applications, mail merge, and Word automation; programming in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005; XML; Microsoft FoxPro 2.X to current, and Microsoft .NET.

Additional preferred qualifications include experience with the following:  hospital medical records and billing terms and definitions; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Uniform Bills (UB92/UB04) for institutional health care providers; CMS's Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS); the American Medical Association's (AMA's) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Coding System; and the International Classification of Diseases 9^th Revision Clinical Modifications (ICD-9-CM).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

• ... The Maine Health Data Organization has a current vacancy in Augusta, Maine.
• ... Qualified applicants will be placed on a special Employment Register which will be used to fill this vacancy. You must submit a completed application for this position even if you are currently on any other register.
• ... If you provide an e-mail address on your employment application (in the space provided on page 1), your application evaluation results will be e-mailed to that address. If you do not provide an e-mail address, you must submit one stamped, self-addressed envelope with your application for notification of your application evaluation results.

•...    YOU MUST COMPLETE THE SUPPLEMENTAL QUALIFICATIONS FORM AT THE END OF THIS BULLETIN IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED.

The Bureau of Human Resources reserves the right to use any other selection devices necessary in order to identify those candidates who are most qualified.

Maine State Government is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer