Integration Specialist Developer

Role overview

FHIR, APIs and interoperability

• Design, develop, test, and maintain integrations using FHIR, RESTful APIs, and healthcare interoperability standards.
• Build secure exchange of clinical and administrative data between healthcare applications, hospital information systems, and external systems.
• Develop, configure, and troubleshoot APIs and web services, including requests, responses, authentication, error handling, and validation.
• Map, transform, validate, and exchange data using FHIR resources, XML, JSON, and other formats.
• Develop and troubleshoot HL7 interfaces, including HL7 v2 messaging.
• Analyze requirements; document API specifications, interface needs, data mappings, technical designs, and support procedures.

Integration engine and support

• Develop, configure, test, implement, and maintain healthcare interfaces using an integration or interface engine.
• Support workflows for message routing, data transformation, connectivity, and system-to-system integrations.
• Monitor and troubleshoot message processing, API connectivity, data quality, performance, and application functionality.
• Support integration platform configuration, security, maintenance, upgrades, and operation.
• Collaborate with vendors, application teams, developers, subject matter experts, and end users; participate in testing, deployments, upgrades, and implementations.
• Document configurations and troubleshooting; provide technical guidance and mentorship.

Data, technical support and collaboration

• Develop SQL queries and use relational databases to support analysis, validation, reporting, troubleshooting, and operations.
• Investigate data integrity, interface processing, performance, connectivity, and reporting issues.
• Work with Windows and/or UNIX/Linux environments and healthcare application infrastructure.
• Apply security and privacy practices to healthcare data integrations; communicate findings to teams, stakeholders, vendors, and end users.
• Coordinate stakeholders and support rollout, maintenance, and continuous improvement of integration services.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent education and relevant experience.
• At least three years of relevant experience in healthcare information systems, systems integration, application development, or a related technical environment.
• Hands-on experience with FHIR, healthcare interoperability, RESTful APIs, HL7 v2, and an integration or interface engine.
• Proficiency with XML, JSON, data mapping and transformation, SQL, and relational databases.
• Understanding of healthcare information systems, clinical workflows, data feeds, and secure, reliable data exchange.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills; ability to manage priorities across teams.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Assets

• Hospital or other healthcare environment experience is an asset.
• Experience with BizTalk, InterSystems HealthShare/Health Connect, Rhapsody, NextGen Connect, or another healthcare integration platform is an asset.
• Meditech Data Repository experience and familiarity with SSRS, SSIS, Crystal Reports, or other reporting tools are assets.
• Java/JEE, .NET, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl/Tk, communication protocols, and UNIX/Linux or Windows server experience are assets.
• Project management certification and understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion in health practices are assets.

Employment and compensation

• Employment type is full-time.
• Salary range is $97,342.05–$121,754.10 per year.

Workplace and schedule

• Position is located at the Wilson site.
• Hours of work are 37.5 hours; the description does not specify the period.

Benefits and workplace culture

• Employees may contribute to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, with employer-matched contributions.
• The employer describes an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace and offers accommodations during recruitment.