Senior FHIR Data Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Enhance the HAPI FHIR JPA persistence layer within PostgreSQL, focusing on search parameters, custom indexing, partitioning strategies, reindexing, resource expunging and history policies, Bulk Data export performance, and asynchronous MDM link tables.

• Create and implement FHIR data quality assessments, encompassing US Core STU 9 compliance, detection of duplicates and orphaned references, and validation of source-event precedence.

• Design and sustain measure-reporting services for digital quality measurement engines and HEDIS benchmarks.

• Assist with FHIR-based measure evaluations, facility and statewide reporting, administrative-effort baselines, and DHHS monthly service report exports.

• Execute queries against the OMOP Common Data Model and Apache Iceberg data marts for reporting purposes.

• Collaborate with data engineers to convert published healthcare data into OMOP when changes on the FHIR side impact downstream datasets.

• Generate capacity planning and performance documentation to support 99.9% availability, a 15-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and a 4-hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirement.

• Aid cloud platform engineers with Aurora PostgreSQL sizing, read-replica configurations, backup verification, and database performance enhancement.

• Provide migration scripts, runbooks, dashboards, and testing suites into specified repositories.

• Work alongside cloud platform engineers, data engineers, architects, and healthcare interoperability teams.

• Undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as necessary to support team goals and ensure project success.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Over 7 years of professional PostgreSQL experience in production settings.

• Extensive hands-on experience with PostgreSQL query planning, index design, partitioning, and performance troubleshooting across multi-terabyte databases.

• More than 3 years of practical experience with HAPI FHIR JPA server internals, including resource tables, search-parameter indexing, Bulk Data, MDM, FHIR R4, and US Core.

• Familiarity with OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) v5.4, including concept, vocabulary, and clinical-event tables, along with experience in writing analytical SQL queries.

• Proven track record in developing healthcare quality reporting solutions utilizing FHIR-based measures, CQL, FHIR Measure/MeasureReport, digital quality measures (dQM), HEDIS, or similar clinical quality reporting standards.

• Proficient in Java 21, Spring Boot, Flyway, and Git.

• Capability to extend HAPI FHIR interceptors and measure-reporting services.

• Experience adhering to secure development practices in HIPAA-regulated settings.

• Familiarity with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, OpenSearch, and Grafana.

• Background in supporting Medicaid programs, state Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), or VA/federal healthcare data modernization initiatives.

• Experience working with healthcare data extracts from Epic, Meditech, Oracle Health, or athenahealth.

• Knowledge of OHDSI tools such as Achilles or Data Quality Dashboard (DQD) and healthcare data quality validation.

• Familiarity with high-availability database architectures, disaster recovery planning, backup verification, and production performance monitoring.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• All selected candidates must successfully undergo a background check.

• Ability to acquire and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including fingerprinting, if required for the position.

• Must reside within the continental United States.

• Sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.

• 401k plan with Employer Matching.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) plus Federal Holidays.

• Corporate Laptop provided.

• Opportunities for Training and Development.

• Remote Work Opportunities.