Integration Architect/ Engineer

Seattle Children's•Seattle, WA

4d•$97,665 - $194,988•Onsite

About The Position

This role requires on-site work at our 818 Stewart location in downtown Seattle. We are hiring for either an Integration Architect or Engineer. Architect: The Integration Architect serves as the senior technical leader responsible for the design, governance, scalability, operational reliability, and production support of enterprise interoperability solutions across Seattle Children's Hospital's digital ecosystem. This role provides architectural leadership for clinical, operational, research, and business integrations utilizing interoperability standards and technologies including HL7v2, FHIR, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud integration platforms, and enterprise integration engines such as InterSystems IRIS for Health and Epic Bridges. The Integration Architect partners with clinical, operational, infrastructure, security, analytics, and application teams to define and implement integration strategies that support organizational initiatives, digital transformation, regulatory requirements, and enterprise scalability. The Integration Architect serves as a senior escalation point for complex production issues and is responsible for ensuring the stability, resiliency, performance, and availability of enterprise integration services. This includes leading root cause analysis, coordinating resolution efforts across technical teams and vendors, implementing operational best practices, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to maintain high availability and reliability of critical healthcare interoperability systems. The Integration Architect also serves as a key advisor for emerging technologies and enterprise initiatives including digital health platforms, AI-enabled solutions, automation, and robotics. Engineer: Responsible for the design, development, and testing of healthcare system interfaces and integration solutions for small- to mid-scale projects. This role requires strong expertise in developing interface solutions using object-oriented Caché programming, as well as the ability to independently lead interface implementation efforts from inception to completion. This includes guiding project participants through requirements gathering, gap analysis, solution design, development, testing, implementation, and issue management and resolution. In addition, this role is responsible for the installation, configuration, and administration of Epic Bridges, Epic FHIR, and InterSystems IRIS for Health integration platforms. Finally, this role provides operational support for these applications and the interface engine, including all associated integration solutions. Responsibilities include participation in an on-call rotation, daily system monitoring, system maintenance, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in CIS, MIS, IS, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience (for Engineer).
3+ years of work experience managing HL7 interfaces and interface activities (for Engineer).
Knowledge of ObjectScript (Caché ObjectScript), with experience in one or more additional languages: Python, Java, C#, SQL, or JavaScript (for Engineer).
Familiarity with FHIR R4 resources and RESTful API concepts (for Engineer).
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or equivalent experience (for Architect).
8+ years of experience in healthcare interoperability, integration engineering, or enterprise architecture (for Architect).
5+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise integration solutions in a healthcare environment (for Architect).
Significant experience with enterprise integration engines such as InterSystems IRIS for Health (for Architect).
Significant experience with Epic Bridges, Epic Interconnect, Epic App Orchard, or equivalent Epic interoperability technologies (for Architect).
Experience designing and implementing secure HL7v2, FHIR, RESTful APIs, JSON/XML, SFTP, and event-driven integration architectures (for Architect).
Experience leading complex technical initiatives and coordinating across multiple stakeholders and departments (for Architect).
Experience with healthcare security and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, TEFCA) (for Architect).

Nice To Haves

InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect HL7 Interface Specialist Certification (for Engineer).
Epic Hyperspace – Bridges Interface Certification (for Engineer).
Experience with FHIR R4 implementations, C-CDA document exchange, or IHE profiles (for Engineer).
Experience scripting automation tasks (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) (for Engineer).
Familiarity with Git-based version control and CI/CD concepts (for Engineer).
Experience with Linux/Unix environments (for Engineer).
Epic Bridges Certification (for Architect).
InterSystems IRIS for Health Certification (for Architect).
Experience with SMART on FHIR applications and OAuth2/OpenID Connect (for Architect).
Experience with Cloud API Gateway technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure) and modern integration patterns (for Architect).
Experience supporting large-scale production integration environments (for Architect).
Experience with healthcare vendor solution assessments and interoperability governance (for Architect).
Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, or automation frameworks (for Architect).
Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled healthcare automation workflows (for Architect).

Responsibilities

Enterprise interoperability architecture and standards
Integration platform strategy and modernization
Real-time interface and API design
Vendor and solution assessments
Cloud-native integration patterns
Production support and operational oversight of enterprise integrations
Monitoring, troubleshooting, escalation management, and incident resolution for critical integration workflows
Strategic roadmap development for interoperability initiatives
Technical leadership and mentorship within the Integration Team
Leading root cause analysis, coordinating resolution efforts across technical teams and vendors, implementing operational best practices, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to maintain high availability and reliability of critical healthcare interoperability systems.
Serving as a key advisor for emerging technologies and enterprise initiatives including digital health platforms, AI-enabled solutions, automation, and robotics.
Design, development, and testing of healthcare system interfaces and integration solutions for small- to mid-scale projects.
Guiding project participants through requirements gathering, gap analysis, solution design, development, testing, implementation, and issue management and resolution.
Installation, configuration, and administration of Epic Bridges, Epic FHIR, and InterSystems IRIS for Health integration platforms.
Providing operational support for these applications and the interface engine, including all associated integration solutions.
Participation in an on-call rotation, daily system monitoring, system maintenance, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.