Integration Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Deliver and support healthcare integration solutions that connect VitalHub products with both customer and third-party systems.

• Conduct technical discovery, interface configuration and development, testing, deployment, go-live, documentation, and transition to business-as-usual support.

• Contribute to the development of new host-system interfaces, reusable integration patterns, as well as code-first development and deployment practices.

• Investigate and resolve support issues impacting deployed integrations.

• Coordinate technical work packages, including priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery milestones with Senior Integration Engineers and project teams.

• Provide technical insights for customer requirements, estimates, implementation strategies, Statements of Work, delivery plans, and acceptance criteria.

• Collaborate with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Product teams, customer technical teams, and third-party vendors.

• Design, configure, develop, test, and deploy healthcare interfaces utilizing Mirth Connect, BridgeLink, or other related integration engines.

• Configure and extend integrations with Patient Administration Systems, Electronic Patient Records, Electronic Medical Records, Radiology Information Systems, and various other clinical or administrative systems.

• Develop integrations leveraging HL7 v2, REST APIs, JSON, XML, and associated data-exchange patterns.

• Plan and support connectivity, message validation, system integration, user acceptance, regression, and production verification testing.

• Assist with deployment, cutover, go-live, post-go-live assurance, and rollback planning.

• Engage in scheduled out-of-hours deployments and time-critical implementation tasks.

• Investigate integration issues through messages, logs, code, configurations, databases, APIs, and diagnostic evidence.

• Produce solution designs, interface specifications, data mappings, test evidence, deployment and rollback plans, and operational handover documentation.

• Contribute reusable integration patterns, shared components, host-system capabilities, and support documentation.

• Support code-first integration development utilizing JavaScript, reusable modules, source control, peer review, command-line tooling, automated testing, and repeatable deployment.

• Participate in peer reviews and share technical expertise with colleagues.

• Engage in customer meetings, technical workshops, delivery planning, project discussions, and incident investigations.

• Attend customer or third-party locations when specifically required.

• Provide transitional support to Implementation and other internal teams.

• Operate in compliance with information governance, data protection, security, clinical safety, quality, and change management requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrable professional experience in developing, configuring, testing, deploying, or supporting system interfaces using an integration platform, middleware technology, or a custom integration solution.

• Solid practical understanding of systems integration concepts and common integration patterns, including message-based, API-based, or event-driven integration.

• Experience with structured data formats such as JSON, XML, delimited data, or similar formats.

• Understanding of data transformation, validation, routing, acknowledgements, error handling, retries, logging, and monitoring.

• Experience with API-based integrations utilizing REST, JSON, HTTP, authentication, and error-handling patterns.

• Proven experience delivering technical integration activities through requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and operational handover.

• Practical experience with a programming or scripting language.

• Ability and eagerness to apply development skills to JavaScript-based interface development within Mirth Connect technologies.

• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.

• Strong diagnostic, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

• Capability to manage technical activities, priorities, risks, dependencies, and scope changes.

• Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce structured technical documentation.

• A structured, quality-focused approach to design, development, testing, deployment, change control, and operational handover.

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary team.

• Willingness to learn healthcare integration standards, including HL7 v2 and Mirth Connect technologies.

• Willingness to adopt source-controlled, code-first development and deployment practices.

• Willingness to participate in occasional planned out-of-hours implementation activities.

• Willingness to undertake occasional travel within the UK when remote delivery is not feasible.

• Nice to have: experience with Mirth Connect, BridgeLink, or comparable integration platforms.

• Nice to have: experience in healthcare integration, NHS, or regulated environments.

• Nice to have: knowledge of HL7 v2, NHS workflows, FHIR, healthcare host systems, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Linux, Git, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, CI, automated testing, deployment pipelines, security practices, DICOM, CDA, IHE, NHS APIs, or related qualifications/certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Occasional planned out-of-hours implementation activities with appropriate flexibility and time off in lieu as per company arrangements.

• Equal opportunities and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.