EpiTrax Outbreak and Exposure Enhancements Developer

About the role

The CDC Foundation is seeking an EpiTrax Outbreak and Exposure Enhancements Developer to support Utah's disease surveillance system during high-volume events, including the current measles outbreak. This role will resume critical system enhancements focused on reducing duplicate data entry, improving data visibility, and automating outbreak tracking. The developer will help operationalize key features to strengthen real-time surveillance and public health response capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Engineer systemic enhancements within EpiTrax to allow case records to link to multiple outbreaks of the same disease, ensuring historical and current data integrity.
• Architect and code automated features that link cases and contacts to specific outbreaks, reducing manual overhead and ensuring real-time surveillance accuracy.
• Develop and deploy automated task-generation modules to programmatically assign and track follow-up actions for public health investigators.
• Implement logic to reduce duplicate data entry across the integrated surveillance system, improving overall data visibility and stakeholder access.
• Refine and expand data export modules to facilitate seamless interoperability with external analysis and visualization tools.
• Special Notes:
• This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the
• CDC Foundation and Utah Department of Health and Human Services in order to best support the State of Utah in their public health programming.
• This position is currently a Hybrid position. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required.
• The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
• Relocation expenses are not included.
• About the CDC Foundation

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field required
• Proficiency in Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) development within Wildfly and Java 17 environments
• Strong understanding of MVC design patterns (PrimeFaces, JSF Managed Beans, JPA)
• Experience working with PostgreSQL databases
• Expertise in XML processing using JAXP
• Experience using Git for version control
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

Additional Information

Position Title: EpiTrax Outbreak and Exposure Enhancements Developer Location: Remote Position End Date: 12/31/26 Salary: $110,000 plus benefits

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