REQT: Direct Client: Senior FHIR / HL7 Healthcare Integration Developer @ Austin, TX – Hybrid – Only Locals

KSN Technologies. • Austin, TX

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

The selected contractor will serve as a FHIR/HL7 development resource for the project. The role involves understanding business objectives and problems, identifying alternative solutions, and performing studies and cost/benefit analyses. The developer analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or improve existing computer systems. This includes consulting organizational personnel to understand current operational procedures, identify problems, and determine input and output requirements; documenting user needs, program functions, and development or modification steps; and reviewing system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to assess whether requested programs or changes are feasible.

The position is a four-month contract based in Austin, Texas. It is hybrid, with three remote days and two required onsite days each week (Monday and Wednesday). Candidates must be local to the Austin area within a 50-mile radius, must be able to work without visa sponsorship, and must attend in-person interviews. The successful candidate may be considered for similar assignments if authorized through the applicable procurement and contracting process.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting healthcare interfaces using HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, JSON, XML, data mapping, transformation, validation, troubleshooting, error handling, and healthcare data exchange.
• Must be local to the Austin area within a 50-mile radius.
• Must be able to work without visa sponsorship.
• Must attend in-person interviews.

Nice To Haves

• 5 years of experience developing secure web portals or portal-integrated services that retrieve and display healthcare data, including API integration, authentication, authorization, role-based access control, secure coding, testing, and production support.
• 5 years of experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.
• 3 years of experience implementing FHIR solutions using US Core profiles, Electronic Case Reporting Implementation Guides, and other HL7 Implementation Guides (strongly preferred).
• 3 years of experience integrating with or implementing FHIR servers, FHIR APIs, and related healthcare interoperability solutions (strongly preferred).
• 3 years of experience mapping, transforming, and validating healthcare data across HL7 v2, FHIR, and analytical data models.
• 3 years of experience with healthcare terminology standards, including SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CVX, and RxNorm.
• 3 years of experience implementing FHIR solutions on AWS or a similar cloud platform and integrating healthcare data with cloud-based ingestion pipelines, storage services, analytics platforms, and enterprise data platforms.
• 3 years of experience with modern application delivery practices, including Git, automated builds, CI/CD pipelines, unit and integration testing, code reviews, defect tracking, logging, monitoring, and technical documentation.
• 1 year of experience with AWS HealthLake, Snowflake, eICR, public health reporting, disease surveillance, and React/FastAPI/Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Understand business objectives and problems; identify alternative solutions and perform studies and cost/benefit analyses.
• Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or improve existing computer systems.
• Consult personnel from organizational units to analyze operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific data input, summarization, and reporting requirements.
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and the steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Review system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine whether requested programs or program changes are feasible.
• Design, develop, test, and support healthcare interfaces and FHIR/HL7 development work, as reflected in the required experience.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed