Junior Specialist

Job Title: Junior Specialist

Job Location: Raleigh, NC

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $22.24hr - $24hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• Strong understanding of clinical terminology standards and healthcare data mapping concepts.
• Experience supporting data quality analysis and issue resolution.
• Knowledge of semantic interoperability principles in healthcare data exchange environments.
• Understanding of application development, technical architecture, or business applications that support healthcare interoperability or terminology services.
• Experience with data analysis, testing, implementation, technical documentation, and production support.
• Ability to analyze complex data and support terminology or coding-related issue resolution.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Ability to support tool refinement, manual adjustments, and quality improvement activities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with technical and business teams.

Experience:

• Experience supporting clinical terminology, coding, or healthcare data mapping activities.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability, HIE, EHR, or terminology services environments is preferred.
• Experience analyzing and resolving data quality issues.
• Experience supporting testing, implementation, and production support activities.
• Experience creating technical and user documentation.
• Experience with software conversions, system maintenance, and ongoing application support is preferred.
• Exposure to evolving coding requirements and terminology standards is a plus.
• Experience supporting tools that require manual training, refinement, or rule adjustment is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Support clinical terminology standards and mapping activities across the HIE environment.
• Assist in resolving data quality issues that impact terminology accuracy and interoperability.
• Support interpretation of evolving coding requirements and terminology updates.
• Help implement best practices for semantic interoperability.
• Support manual training, refinement, and adjustment of terminology services tools to improve accuracy and scalability.
• Provide support in the usage and maintenance of development platforms, technical architectures, or business applications beyond basic developer-level support.
• Assist with analysis, visual design, development support, data analysis, testing, and implementation activities.
• Create and maintain technical and user documentation.
• Support software conversions, system maintenance, and production support functions.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to improve terminology workflows and data quality outcomes.

Should Have:

• Familiarity with HIE, EHR, or healthcare integration environments.
• Exposure to clinical coding standards such as ICD, CPT, SNOMED CT, LOINC, or similar terminology frameworks.
• Experience with healthcare data mapping, normalization, or semantic interoperability initiatives.
• Ability to support technical platforms and business applications in production environments.
• Interest in learning and growing into a more advanced terminology or interoperability specialist role.

Qualification and Education:

• Bachelor s degree in Information Systems, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent professional experience.