Principal Architect, Integrated Products /FHIR /CDS /EHR

As a Solution Architect specializing in integrating products into Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, you will be critical in delivering solutions that leverage UpToDate’s deep clinical decision support knowledge in clinicians’ workflows. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including medical editors, informaticists, software engineers, implementation teams, and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate has significant experience building and integrating CDS functionality into hospital EHRs.

Work Location : Remote

Responsibilities:

• Architectural design: Design solutions in a manner that carefully considers the scalability, performance, resilience, availability, maintainability, security, deployment, testing, and monitoring needs.
• Technical leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance of development and implementation of integrated solutions. Be a force that enables the development teams to strive for overarching architectural design, devise best practices and patterns.
• Solution Development: Collaborate with engineers to develop and implement CDS applications.
• Software Testing: Work closely with software test engineers to develop deep and thorough test coverage.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, understanding their requirements and challenges, be the subject matter expert in your area.
• Innovation and Research: Stay abreast of the latest changes in CDS and EHR integration landscapes, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement. Investigate, evaluate, and recommend technologies, tools, and frameworks that contribute to accelerating delivery of the product roadmap. Devise and implement proof-of-concept (POC) activities to guide technology decisions when appropriate. Balance upfront planning and encouraging emerging designs while executing initiatives in an Agile environment.
• : Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, design decisions, and processes to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity.

Interpersonal & Technical Skills

• Leadership – Strong technology leadership skills to drive successful execution.
• Technologist – Knowledge and interest in the latest system architecture, automation, and data management trends with the ability to rapidly learn and apply new technologies. Strong ability to share and teach to accelerate the team’s adoption of new technologies.
• Collaborative – Works closely with team members and stakeholders to understand needs, gain perspective, and collectively deliver solutions with a shared purpose. Skilled negotiator who has the ability to motivate, persuade, and build consensus.
• Enthusiastic – must be high-energy and a passionate advocate for quickly delivering value.
• Adaptive and Inclusive – works with team members to understand pain points and adjust standards, tools, and best practices accordingly.
• Transparent – must desire to bring disclosure and transparency across the Engineering Teams and with the business.
• Assertive – not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority, willing to hold teams accountable to vision and values. 
• Creativity, initiative, and flexibility – tempered by pragmatism, patience, and attention to detail.
• Honest, humble, friendly, and collegial with a great sense of humor.
• Creative problem-solver – Ability to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways, recognize opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in a vision and strategy while maintaining the “big picture” view.
• Commitment to continuous improvement. Ability to dynamically adjust the plan, to resolve impediments as well as to meet changing business needs.
• Accountable – must embody a strong sense of responsibility for the timely completion of tasks, as well as the responsibility to ensure a shared understanding of shared tasks.
• Communicative and social – excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.  Ability to bridge the gap between technical and business stakeholders to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of audiences.

Experience: 

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of development experience with 3+ years of experience at the Architect level
• Experience designing and building solutions that are scalable, performant, resilient, observable, and secure.
• Proven and demonstrable experience with clinical decision support using the FHIR standard (i.e. CDS Hooks Services, SMART on FHIR applications). Experience integrating with EHRs such as Epic, Cerner, or similar.
• Familiarity with retrieving and using structured and unstructured data.
• Familiarity with Clinical Query Language (CQL), Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) or similar a plus
• Deep understanding of agile engineering practices (Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, SOLID, Refactoring, etc.)
• Knowledge of software development best practices, patterns, and principles.
• Application Program Interface (API) specification and development, including REST services.
• Experience with Java, SpringBoot, Node.js, Javascript, RESTful APIs, databases.
• Experience with architecting, building, and deploying solutions using Microservices Architectures (MSA).
• Strong understanding of DevOps techniques and tools.
• Experience working on distributed teams.
• Proven track record to drive complex engineering initiatives to completion on time and on budget.
• Ability to evaluate the short and long-term implications of technical choices with respect to SDLC best practices, user functionality, application performance, and the potential accumulation of technical debt.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure a plus.

Compensation:

Additional Information:

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.