About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Integrations EDI Lead Engineer based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical architecture and implementation for enterprise healthcare integration initiatives spanning HIPAA X12 transactions, HL7, and FHIR APIs.
- Design and develop scalable data exchange solutions, transformation workflows, mappings, validation frameworks, error handling, and reconciliation processes.
- Build and maintain integrations connecting internal platforms with payers, providers, clearinghouses, and third-party vendors.
- Guide the modernization of legacy EDI capabilities toward microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud-native deployments, and real-time interoperability.
- Establish engineering standards, lead design reviews, promote best practices, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to automate deployments, improve scalability and resiliency, strengthen observability, and maintain high availability for mission-critical transaction processing.
- Monitor system performance, investigate production issues, and contribute to incident resolution and continuous reliability improvements.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Analysis, and external partners to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Drive strategic modernization initiatives, improve transaction throughput, and introduce scalable FHIR-enabled integration capabilities.
- Help establish a modern integration ecosystem and influence the long-term architecture of healthcare data exchange.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years focused on healthcare EDI.
- Strong expertise in HIPAA X12 transactions, including 837, 835, 270/271, 276/277, and 278, as well as solid knowledge of HL7 and FHIR standards.
- Hands-on programming experience with Java, C#, Go, or comparable languages.
- Proven experience developing REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native development practices.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases, performance optimization, and high-volume transaction processing.
- Understanding of healthcare interoperability, data governance, security best practices, and payer workflows or claims processing.
- Strong technical leadership, communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.
- Experience working independently while providing technical direction and collaborating effectively across engineering, product, business, and vendor teams.
- Preferred: experience with Edifecs xEngine, XEServer, EAM, or SpecBuilder.
- Preferred: experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, along with knowledge of SMART on FHIR, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect.
- Preferred: previous experience leading technical teams and driving enterprise-scale modernization initiatives.
Conditions
- $140,000 annual salary
- Competitive compensation and annual bonus program.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Company-paid short-term disability coverage, subject to location restrictions.
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits.
- Paid time off and paid sick time.
- Paid parental leave.
- Paid company holidays and floating holidays.
- Quarterly company-sponsored events.
- Health and wellness programs.
- Career development and professional growth opportunities.
- Remote opportunities available in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
- A collaborative, team-oriented environment focused on innovation, continuous improvement, and meaningful healthcare technology.