Description
Position Description: The Applications Development Expert provides design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy. The position shall use a variety of platforms to provide automated systems applications to customers. This individual will be viewed both internally and externally as a technical expert and critical technical resource across multiple disciplines.
His/her responsibilities include performing the following tasks:
- A. Developing enterprise-level applications and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions, and features;
- B. Providing expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business;
- C. Determining specifications, then planning, designing, and developing the most complex and business-critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes (either individually or in concert with a project team);
- D. Assisting in the most difficult support problems;
- E. Developing programming and development standards and procedures as well as programming architectures for code reuse;
- F. Understanding and consistently applying the attributes and processes of current application development methodologies;
- G. Researching and maintaining knowledge in emerging technologies and their possible application to the business; and
- H. Acting as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent.
Additional Application Integration & Architecture Responsibilities Include:
- Serve as the FHIR API Lead, leveraging FHIR and HL7 standards to support CMS Interoperability Rule 0057-F and enable secure and efficient healthcare data exchange.
- Design and implement FHIR-based solutions to expose clinical and claims data via standardized APIs using cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Develop and maintain Enterprise Integration Architecture guidelines and policies, with emphasis on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) principles.
- Collaborate with developers to build mapping between source and target data formats, including database, flat files, X12, JSON, XML, HL7v2, and FHIR.
- Guide teams on application web service and API integration with a focus on scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
- Design reusable components, standards, frameworks, and processes to support enterprise-level application integration and web services.
- Ensure compliance with integration design standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Work with architects and developers to align integration solutions with enterprise architecture.
- Analyze, review, and recommend improvements to expand and mature enterprise application integration strategies.
- Support governance board activities by reviewing application integration changes and architectural decisions.
- Promote continuous improvement through evaluation of emerging technologies and interoperability standards.