Healthcare Integration Architect

• Ensure appropriate consideration of patient safety, data integrity, availability and traceability when designing healthcare integrations.

Central Mirth Platform

• Take technical ownership of Affidea’s Central Mirth integration platform and its integration architecture.

• Design and develop Mirth channels supporting communication between Group and country-level systems.

• Configure and maintain Mirth source and destination connectors, transformers, filters and routing logic.

• Develop message transformations and routing rules for healthcare and application integrations.

• Implement and maintain HL7 and other message-processing workflows within Mirth.

• Develop custom scripts and components where required to support complex integration requirements.

• Design reliable message processing including acknowledgement handling, retries, queues, error handling and message recovery.

• Monitor and optimize integration performance and message processing.

• Troubleshoot complex integration problems including connectivity, message format, transformation, routing and application-level issues.

• Analyze failed, delayed or duplicate messages and perform root-cause analysis.

• Define monitoring, alerting and logging requirements for the central integration platform.

• Support high availability, scalability and business continuity requirements of the Central Mirth environment.

• Establish development, testing and deployment standards for Mirth channels and integration components.

• Maintain appropriate version control and release management for integration developments.

Integration Development

• Perform hands-on development of integration solutions as a core part of the role.

• Develop and maintain interfaces, APIs, integration services, scripts and message transformations.

• Develop integration logic using technologies such as JavaScript, Java, C#, SQL or other relevant technologies.

• Build and consume REST APIs and web services.

• Develop data transformation and mapping logic between different source and target data structures.

• Work with XML, JSON, HL7 and other structured message formats.

• Develop database integration components and queries where required.

• Implement appropriate validation, error handling, logging and reconciliation mechanisms.

• Create reusable integration components and libraries to accelerate future integration development.

• Perform unit and integration testing of developed interfaces.

• Support UAT and production deployments.

• Investigate and resolve production integration incidents where development-level expertise is required.

Healthcare Interoperability

• Define and maintain Affidea standards for healthcare interoperability.

• Work extensively with HL7 v2 messages, including common ADT, ORM, ORU and SIU workflows.

• Design and support FHIR-based integrations where appropriate.

• Understand and support DICOM-related workflows and integration with medical imaging environments.

• Work with clinical and technical stakeholders to understand healthcare workflows and translate them into integration requirements.

• Ensure correct patient identification and appropriate handling of patient and clinical data across integrated systems.

• Support integration between scheduling, patient administration, clinical reporting and medical imaging systems.

• Work with vendors to understand and validate their healthcare integration capabilities and interface specifications.

API and Application Integration

• Design and develop integrations using REST APIs, web services, messaging and other integration technologies.

• Define standards for API-based communication and reusable integration services.

• Design synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns according to business and technical requirements.

• Support integration with cloud-based and on-premise applications.

• Define common approaches for authentication, authorization, error handling, retry mechanisms and API versioning.

• Work with external vendors to design and implement interfaces between vendor solutions and the Affidea environment.

Integration Monitoring & Operations

• Ensure integrations can be effectively monitored and supported in production.

• Define end-to-end monitoring and alerting for critical healthcare interfaces.

• Implement appropriate logging and technical traceability.

• Establish processes for identifying failed, delayed or duplicate messages.

• Support root-cause analysis of integration incidents.

• Work with support teams to establish appropriate operational procedures and escalation paths.

• Identify recurring incidents and implement permanent technical improvements rather than relying on manual operational workarounds.

• Continuously improve integration reliability, performance and maintainability.

Architecture & Technical Governance

• Act as the technical authority for healthcare integration solutions.

• Define and maintain Affidea integration architecture standards and development guidelines.

• Review integration designs proposed by internal teams and external vendors.

• Ensure new integrations follow agreed architecture and interoperability standards.

• Promote reusable integration components and standardized interfaces across Affidea countries.

• Reduce unnecessary direct system-to-system integrations where centralized or reusable integration services provide a more sustainable solution.

• Evaluate new integration technologies and healthcare interoperability approaches where relevant.

• Maintain technical documentation and integration inventories.

Projects & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with Group IT, Country IT, Clinical IT, Digital Solutions and project teams.

• Participate in requirements gathering and translate business and clinical requirements into technical integration designs.

• Lead technical integration workshops with internal stakeholders and external vendors.

• Identify technical dependencies and integration risks early in projects.

• Provide technical estimates and support integration planning.

• Coordinate technical implementation activities between multiple systems and vendors.

• Support country rollouts of centrally managed integration solutions.

• Communicate complex integration topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to developers and other technical team members.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline.

• Healthcare interoperability, integration or architecture certifications are an advantage.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of professional IT experience with significant experience in application and system integration.

• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in an Integration Architect, Integration Developer, Solution Architect or comparable senior technical role.

• Strong hands-on integration development experience.

• Strong experience with enterprise integration engines; Mirth Connect experience is strongly preferred.

• Experience designing and developing integrations between healthcare applications is highly desirable.

• Strong knowledge of HL7 v2, v3 and healthcare messaging concepts.

• Experience with common healthcare integration workflows and message types such as ADT, ORM, ORU and SIU.

• Knowledge of FHIR and modern healthcare interoperability concepts.

• Understanding of DICOM and medical imaging workflows is an advantage.

• Experience with HIS, RIS, PACS, LIS or comparable clinical applications.

• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, web services and application integration.

• Experience working with XML and JSON and performing complex message/data transformations.

• Strong scripting or software development skills, preferably including JavaScript and/or Java, C#/.NET.

• Good SQL and relational database knowledge.

• Understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns, messaging and queues.

• Experience implementing error handling, retries, message acknowledgement, monitoring and logging.

• Experience troubleshooting complex production integrations and performing root-cause analysis.

• Understanding of source control, software development lifecycle and CI/CD practices.

• Experience with cloud and hybrid integration environments.

• Microsoft Azure integration technologies are an advantage but are not the primary focus of the role.

• Healthcare & Integration Knowledge

• Strong understanding of healthcare system interoperability and clinical data exchange.

• Understanding of patient, appointment, order and clinical result workflows.

• Experience working with healthcare vendors and their interface specifications.

• Understanding of patient identification and data consistency challenges across multiple healthcare applications.

• Awareness of healthcare data protection, security and regulatory requirements.

• Experience working in a multi-country or multi-organization healthcare environment is a strong advantage.

· Personal & Professional Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong technical troubleshooting capabilities.

• Ability to work at both architecture and hands-on development level.

• Ability to understand complex system landscapes and end-to-end data flows.

• Ability to translate business and clinical requirements into technical integration solutions.

• Strong ownership and accountability for technical solutions.

• Ability to work independently and take responsibility for complex technical problems.

• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills.

• Excellent technical documentation skills.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively in an international and multicultural organization.

• Fluent written and spoken English.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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Source: Himalayas