Healthcare Interoperability Architect

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Design the architecture for a custom interface engine supporting HL7 v2, FHIR (R4), and X12 EDI etc transactions.
• Define routing, transformation, and queuing strategies for high-volume healthcare data exchange.
• Integration with EHRs (Epic, Athena, Cerner, Meditech) and clearinghouses.
• Establish error handling, retries, monitoring, and resilience patterns (Resilience4j, circuit breakers, observability).
• Mentor developers, review designs/code, and enforce best practices.
  

Technical Skills Required

• Java / Spring Boot (microservices, APIs, event-driven patterns)
• Integration frameworks: Apache Camel or Spring Integration
• Data mapping: Smooks, HAPI FHIR
• Message formats: HL7 v2, FHIR (STU3/R4), X12 EDI (837, 835, 270/271), JSON, XML, CSV etc
  

Architecture & Infrastructure

• Cloud-native design (Azure / AWS)
• Kafka / RabbitMQ for messaging
• Observability: Grafana / Prometheus / ELK
• Security: OAuth2, JWT, mutual TLS, encryption at rest/in-transit
  

Domain Knowledge

• Healthcare RCM (pre-billing edits, eligibility, claims, remittance)
• EHR APIs ( Epic App Orchard, Athena One, Cerner Ignite etc)
  

Experience

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in healthcare interoperability.