Summary: The role of an InterSystems Health Connect integration engineer involves designing, implementing, and supporting healthcare interoperability solutions using FHIR standards. The engineer will work on building integrations across various healthcare systems while ensuring compliance with regulations and quality standards. This position requires a blend of hands-on development and solution architecture in a remote setting. The contract is long-term and employment is on a W2 basis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and build integrations leveraging Health Connect productions and various adapters.
- Implement FHIR-based workflows and translate between FHIR and HL7 v2 standards.
- Create DTLs for message transformations and BPL for orchestration and error handling.
- Map data using various healthcare standards and validate conformance with FHIR Implementation Guides.
- Own deployments, monitoring, and support for Health Connect productions.
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical interfaces.
- Use Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines for production management.
- Write automated tests and maintain operational documentation.
Key Skills:
- 7+ years of experience with InterSystems Health Connect or IRIS for Health/HealthShare.
- Strong knowledge of FHIR R4 and HL7 v2.x standards.
- Proficiency in ObjectScript and at least one programming language (Python, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or .NET).
- Experience with InterSystems Management Portal and production configuration.
- Understanding of HIPAA and secure integration patterns.
- Version control and CI/CD experience.
- Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
InterSystems Health Connect integration engineer
USA (Remote)
Long Term Contract
Employment Type W2
- We're seeking an experienced InterSystems Health Connect integration engineer with deep expertise in FHIR (R4/R5) to design, implement, and support end to end healthcare interoperability solutions. You'll build robust integrations across EHRs, payers, HIEs, and ancillary systems using Health Connect productions (Business Services/Processes/Operations), Data Transformations (DTLs), Business Process Language (BPL), and adapters-bridging FHIR APIs with HL7 v2, C-CDA, and other standards. This role combines hands-on development with solution architecture, security, and production support in a regulated healthcare environment.
What You'll Do
- Design & Build Integrations
- Develop Health Connect productions leveraging EnsLib adapters (HTTP, MLLP, File, SOAP, JDBC, REST).
- Implement FHIR-based workflows (read/search/$operations/subscriptions/bulk data) and translate to/from HL7 v2 (ADT/ORM/ORU/SIU), C-CDA, and JSON/XML payloads.
- Create DTLs for message transformations and BPL for orchestration, routing, and error handling.
- Implement SMART on FHIR and OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect flows; configure client credentials, PKCE, token introspection, and scope management.
- Standards, Quality & Compliance
- Map data using USCDI, LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, ICD 10, and terminology services.
- Validate conformance with FHIR Implementation Guides (e.g., US Core, Payer, Da Vinci) using tooling (Inferno/Touchstone/Postman collections).
- Author/maintain API specifications (OpenAPI/Swagger), message specs, and traceable mapping docs.
- Ensure HIPAA, security-by-design, data minimization, and audit requirements (e.g., AuditEvent).
- Operations & Reliability
- Own deployments, monitoring, and support for Health Connect productions; build alerting/dashboards; perform root cause analysis and tuning (pools, message queues, persistent stores).
- Implement retries, idempotency, and dead-letter strategies; manage schema changes and versioning.
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical interfaces.
- DevOps & SDLC
- Use Git-based workflows, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact versioning for productions and class code.
- Containerize and deploy IRIS/HealthShare Health Connect on Docker/Kubernetes (or VM), parameterize environments, and manage secrets.
- Write automated tests (unit/integration), generate realistic synthetic test data, and maintain runbooks and operational SOPs.
Required Qualifications
- 3 7+ years building healthcare integrations with InterSystems Health Connect (or IRIS for Health/HealthShare), including:
- Hands-on with Productions, DTL, BPL, Message Classes, Record Maps, and EnsLib adapters.
- Strong FHIR R4 (R5 a plus): resources (Patient, Encounter, Observation, Condition, Medication*, AllergyIntolerance, Coverage), search params, bundles, transactions, subscriptions, and $bulk data.
- Proficiency in HL7 v2.x (ADT, ORU, ORM, SIU), CDA/C CDA, JSON/XML, and RESTful API design.
- Authentication/Authorization: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SMART on FHIR, JWT/JWS, mTLS.
- Programming skills in ObjectScript and at least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, or .NET.
- Experience with InterSystems Management Portal, Production configuration, Message Trace, and Visual Trace tooling.
- Solid grasp of HIPAA, PHI handling, and secure integration patterns (TLS, secure endpoints, secrets management).
- Version control (Git), issue tracking (Jira/Azure Boards), and CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/GitLab).
- Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and stakeholder communication skills.