Position Title: EpiTrax Outbreak and Exposure Enhancements Developer
Location: Remote
Position End Date: 12/31/26
Salary: $110,000 plus benefits
Overview:
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.
Qualifications:
· 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
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.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law. We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
Relocation expenses are not included.
About the CDC Foundation
The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.2 billion and launched more than 1,200 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 140 countries last year. Learn more at www.cdcfoundation.org.