Lead FHIR implementations, ensuring accurate data exchange, developing API endpoints, complying with healthcare regulations, and maintaining data mapping specifications.
Who is Element?
We serve as a consulting partner at the intersection between innovation and our clients’ needs, efficiently crafting meaningful user experiences for government customers. As a HUBZone-certified business, we foster local economic development. We also lead digital transformation in government agencies. Join us to drive impactful change in government service delivery while contributing to meaningful initiatives focused on innovation, usability, and accessibility.
Why Work at Element?
We foster a supportive culture where collaboration and creativity flourish, even in a remote work setting, encouraging all to be in their element. With a continued commitment to diversity and inclusion, we ensure every voice is valued and heard, inspiring a place of belonging. Our human-centered approach extends beyond our services, with a culture that supports our team's mission of making a meaningful impact through technology, innovation, and user-centric design. Whether you're developing cutting-edge technology solutions or designing intuitive interfaces, your contributions will have a transformative effect on the lives of countless individuals, shaping how users engage with vital government services. Join us and have a far-reaching impact, resonating across diverse demographics, from communities to the families that build them.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for HL7 FHIR, APIs, and healthcare interoperability standards to support program objectives and participant success.
- Interpret API specifications, implementation guides, and technical documentation to support system integration and interoperability initiatives.
- Provide technical expertise on FHIR data structures, resource modeling, validation, and cross-system data exchange.
- Collaborate with technical teams to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve interoperability, API, and healthcare data integration issues.
- Identify and analyze data quality issues, integration gaps, and interoperability challenges across multiple healthcare data sources.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including program management, engineering, product, analytics, and external partners to support successful implementation activities.
- Support documentation efforts, including technical guidance, standard operating procedures (SOPs), implementation documentation, and knowledge articles.
- Participate in requirements gathering, solution reviews, and continuous process improvement activities to enhance interoperability capabilities and participant experience.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of professional experience in healthcare information technology, healthcare interoperability, or health data exchange.
- 3+ years of experience working with FHIR, RESTful APIs, and healthcare interoperability standards.
- Experience supporting healthcare data integration, API implementation, or interoperability initiatives.
- Working knowledge of healthcare data standards, including HL7 FHIR, JSON, XML, and REST APIs.
- Experience interpreting technical documentation, API specifications, and data models.
- Experience troubleshooting API integrations and validating healthcare data exchanges.
- Experience delivering technical guidance or training to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) or other agile framework.
- A team player; willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly.
- Experience with working and negotiating with stakeholder.
- Must live in the Continental US.
- Be either a US citizen or Permanent Resident due to the work we do.
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare certifications such as HL7 FHIR Proficiency, AWS/Azure Cloud, PMP, or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
- Qualified individuals living in HUBZone-certified areas are strongly encouraged to apply. To find out if you live in a HUBZone go to: https://maps.certify.sba.gov/hubzone/map#center=44.722800,-103.249700&zoom=4.
Our People
We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.
Location
Be in your Element. We are a remote first company based out of Washington, DC. As a HUBZone-certified business we are committed to supporting local economic development.
Element is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in a world where solutions we build improve the lives of those who use them.
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