Senior Health Informatics Consultant – Standards and Interoperability

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

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain semantic infrastructure that supports enterprise clinical data, encompassing metadata, ontology standards, information models, reference data, and value sets.

• Design, enhance, and manage ontologies and controlled vocabularies; establish modeling conventions, hierarchies, and post-coordination rules.

• Implement semantic interoperability principles and create, test, and validate mappings and crosswalks between coding systems.

• Create and maintain knowledge management resources such as wikis, knowledge bases, data dictionaries, modeling guides, and decision repositories.

• Provide expert oversight regarding healthcare integration standards and identify applicable standards for exchange scenarios.

• Guide the implementation of HL7 v2, C-CDA, FHIR, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, and CDISC.

• Direct the design and supervision of data integration across clinical, administrative, and ancillary source systems.

• Oversee integration between enterprise health systems and downstream consumers, including interface engines, messaging patterns, and API strategies.

• Lead logical and physical data modeling for health information assets.

• Provide oversight of health data warehouse design and development, including source-to-target mapping, dimensional and normalized modeling, historization, and controls.

• Conduct high-level analyses of complex informatics, integration, and information management challenges and provide recommendations for government decision-makers.

• Act as a liaison and advisor between architecture and analysis teams and standards organizations such as HL7, SNOMED International, and CDISC.

• Offer expert guidance in scientific and medical informatics domains.

• Provide leadership and training regarding health standards.

• Translate government problem statements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.

• Serve as a senior informatics and standards authority on interdisciplinary agile teams and participate in SAFe ceremonies.

• Produce information models, architecture representations, interface specifications, mapping documents, data dictionaries, and technical documentation.

• Identify and monitor risks and issues related to data standards, terminology currency, integration, and semantic integrity; engage stakeholders across VHACO, VISNs, VAMCs, OIT, and partner organizations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master's degree in health or biomedical informatics, information or computer science, library and information science, a clinical discipline, or a related area.

• 10 years of analytical and/or management experience in one or more disciplines related to the health sciences.

• At least 5 years of experience in ontology and semantic interoperability concepts pertinent to clinical or medical data classification and standardization.

• Proven experience collaborating with standards organizations or standards such as SNOMED, CDISC, HL7, and ASCO.

• Demonstrated experience in developing semantic infrastructure, including metadata, ontology standards, terminology tools, and knowledge management resources.

• Expert-level understanding of healthcare integration standards and standards implementation, including HL7 v2, C-CDA, and FHIR.

• Demonstrated expertise in data integration, systems integration, data modeling, and data warehousing sufficient to provide oversight rather than merely execution.

• Experience conducting high-level analytical tasks on complex health information issues.

• Experience serving as a liaison or advisor between technical teams and health standards organizations such as HL7.

• Proven ability to provide leadership and training in health standards to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience working within an Agile or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment, including backlog management and delivery tracking in Jira and/or Jira Align.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, including advanced Excel; familiarity with Power BI and the Power Platform.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the capability to brief technical, clinical, and executive stakeholders and create decision-quality documentation.

• Ability to work independently, manage multiple concurrent priorities, and deliver on a fixed iteration and Planning Interval cadence.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.

• Position is based in the United States; legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer

• Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are strongly encouraged to apply

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