Instrument Interface Specialist

Role - Instrument Interface Specialist 
Location - Secaucus, NJ (Remote)

W2/C2C

This position is a facilitator and a liaison between Business and IT for Instrumentation changes and LIS changes related to instrumentation. This position requires a broad understanding of laboratory instrumentation, middleware utilized for instrumentation, business processes related to validating and processing orders/results, and requirements gathering/documenting concepts. An instrument interface specialist will collaborate with Product Management, Solution Architects, Business Partners, Application Development, and Software Quality Assurance.

Qualifications:
Required Work Experience:  
•    Required 5 years of experience in medical lab operations, IT functions, and instrument interface deployments, including direct involvement in clinical interface configuration/maintenance/support. 
•    Exposure to clinical healthcare environment. 

Preferred Work Experience:  
•    Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time. 
•    Availability to provide night/weekend support via on-call on a rotating basis.
•    Experience with InterSystems based systems, databases, and code such as Cache/Iris
Knowledge:  
•    General knowledge and understanding of operating systems, databases, application development tools, and data processing. 
•    Experience using Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and Excel a plus. 
•    Experience with multiple instrument communication standards such as ASTM/HL7 
•    Experience with other common data formats such as JSON and XML and SQL preferred. 
•    Experience with Web Services preferred.
•    Experience interfacing instruments with Antrim based laboratory information systems is highly preferred.
•    Ability to read/write basic commands in Cache/Iris based systems.
•    Understanding of Cache/Iris based database systems and their global/class structures.
•    Experience interfacing instruments via middleware with Epic based information systems is a plus.
•    Familiarity with support/maintenance of intermediary devices used in instrument communication preferred (i.e., terminal servers, file transfer systems)