Job: FHIR/HL7 Integration Developer
Expected Duration: 2 months / 472 hours (12/14/26 – 2/26/27)
Location: Hybrid-Candidates must be local to the Austin area
Interview: Both Webcam and Onsite
FHIR/HL7 Integration Developer to support the design, development, and implementation of healthcare interoperability solutions. The role focuses on developing secure healthcare interfaces, integrating electronic health data, and supporting FHIR/HL7-based applications and services. Strong candidates will have extensive experience with HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, healthcare data mapping, validation, and integration, along with knowledge of modern programming languages and cloud-based healthcare systems.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
· Design, develop, test, and maintain healthcare interfaces using HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, JSON, and XML, including data mapping, transformation, validation, troubleshooting, and error handling.
- Develop and integrate secure healthcare applications, portals, APIs, and data exchange services, ensuring appropriate authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive information.
- Collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders to implement healthcare interoperability solutions, improve data exchange workflows, and support testing, documentation, and production operations.
Minimum Candidate Characteristics:
· 8 years designing, developing, testing, and supporting healthcare interfaces using HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, JSON, and XML.
- 8 years of healthcare data exchange experience, including data mapping, transformation, validation, troubleshooting, and error handling.
Exceptional Candidate Characteristics:
· 5 years developing secure healthcare portals or API-integrated services, plus experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.
- 3 years implementing FHIR solutions using US Core profiles, electronic case reporting implementation guides, FHIR servers/APIs, and healthcare data mapping standards such as SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CVX, and RxNorm.
- 3 years of cloud-based healthcare integration and modern development practices, including AWS, data pipelines, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing; experience with AWS HealthLake, Snowflake, eICR, React, FastAPI, or Terraform is advantageous.
I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.
The selected contractor will serve as a FHIR/HL7 development resource for the project. The successful candidate may be considered for other similar assignments if authorized through the applicable procurement and contracting process.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. |
Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
8 | Required | 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. |
5 | Preferred | 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 | Preferred | Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, |
3 | Preferred | Strongly Preferred - Experience implementing FHIR solutions using US Core profiles, Electronic Case Reporting Implementation Guides, and other HL7 Implementation Guides. |
3 | Preferred | Strongly Preferred - Experience integrating with or implementing FHIR servers, FHIR APIs, and related healthcare interoperability solutions. |
3 | Preferred | Experience mapping, transforming, and validating healthcare data across HL7 v2, FHIR, and analytical data models. |
3 | Preferred | Experience working with healthcare terminology standards, including SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CVX, and RxNorm. |
3 | Preferred | Experience implementing FHIR solutions on AWS or similar cloud platform and integrating healthcare data with cloud-based ingestion pipelines, storage services, analytics platforms, and enterprise data platforms. |
3 | Preferred | 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 | Preferred | Experience with AWS HealthLake, Snowflake, eICR, public health reporting, disease surveillance, and React/FastAPI/Terraform. |
