Senior Clinical Integration Architect

Job Description

• Defines and maintains the enterprise clinical integration architecture, standards, design principles, interface patterns, and technology roadmap in alignment with organizational strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Designs scalable and reusable integration solutions connecting the Electronic Medical Record, clinical applications, ancillary systems, imaging platforms, medical devices, financial systems, patient portals, mobile applications, and external healthcare networks.
• Evaluates integration requirements and recommend appropriate technologies, standards, and architecture patterns based on clinical criticality, security, performance, maintainability, and business continuity needs.
• Provides technical design authority for major clinical systems implementations, expansions, migrations, upgrades, mergers, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Leads the design, development, implementation, and optimization of integrations using HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, IHE profiles, APIs, web services, messaging technologies, and other healthcare interoperability standards.
• Ensures consistent implementation of patient identity, encounter, order, result, medication, scheduling, billing, document, and clinical data exchange workflows across enterprise systems.
• Establishes interface specifications, data mappings, terminology standards, validation rules, error-handling processes, and integration documentation.
• Supports compliance with DHA, NABIDH, JCI, health information exchange, data privacy, and organizational information governance requirements.
• Develops and governs integration testing strategies covering unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, failover testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Validates message content, data accuracy, patient identity, workflow outcomes, error conditions, system acknowledgements, and downstream clinical availability before production deployment.
• Leads technical review and approval of integration changes through established change-management and release-governance processes.
• Maintains version control, deployment documentation, interface inventories, test evidence, rollback procedures, and post-implementation validation records.