Manager- Health Informatics Engineering

Manager- Health Informatics Engineering

Experience:

• 10+ years in health informatics, clinical terminology, or related disciplines.

Location:

• Rosemont, IL (Hybrid)

What's in it for you?

As a Manager, you'll lead and mentor a team of skilled terminology analysts, oversee terminology workflows, and act as a vital bridge between engineering, product, and content teams. Your leadership will shape strategic informatics initiatives, ensure alignment with clinical standards, and cultivate a culture centered on learning, collaboration, and ongoing improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Develop Your Team: Supervise and mentor a team of terminology analysts, guiding their growth and helping them build career paths in emerging areas like knowledge graph development.

• Ensure Terminology Quality: Manage and enhance the delivery of clinical terminologies (e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, RxNorm), ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

• Drive Strategic Initiatives: Help shape terminology strategies and informatics processes that support the organization's core data assets.

• Facilitate Agile Processes: Promote Agile/Scrum methodologies, enabling the team to stay responsive, efficient, and aligned with broader organizational objectives.

• Act as a Technical Liaison: Work closely with data engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to integrate terminology content into data pipelines and product functionality.

• Coach and Provide Feedback: Conduct performance reviews, offer regular feedback, and guide professional development to strengthen team knowledge and cross-functional collaboration.

• Support Team Operations: Manage resources, approve timesheets and PTO, and contribute to departmental reporting on productivity and impact.

• Champion Collaboration: Build strong, collaborative relationships with clinical, content, and technical teams to improve delivery and solve complex problems.

• Influence Organizational Change: Drive continuous improvement in team processes, communication, and culture by promoting agile principles and adaptive thinking.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, clinical, or health-related field (Master's preferred).

• Technical certifications across relevant technologies are a plus.

Skills:

Required:

• 7 10+ years of experience in health informatics, clinical terminology, or related areas.

• In-depth knowledge of clinical terminologies like SNOMED CT, ICD-10, and RxNorm, along with standards such as HL7 FHIR and OMOP CDM.

• Demonstrated leadership in managing and growing teams focused on informatics or terminology content.

• Understanding of data engineering tools and principles, with the ability to contribute to technical discussions.

• Excellent communication skills for translating complex clinical/technical topics to varied audiences.

• Experience using Agile/Scrum and collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.

• Familiarity with healthcare data governance and regulatory frameworks, including HIPAA.

• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.

What You'll Learn:

• How to mentor and scale a high-performing terminology and informatics team.

• Strategic leadership in a dynamic healthcare technology setting.

• Deeper expertise in terminology management, semantic modeling, and the expanding role of informatics in healthcare innovation.