Interoperability Engineer

• Remote: Yes
• Area of Interest: Information Systems & Technical Support
• FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.0
• Department: Interface and Interoperability
• Shift: Monday-Friday, Days
• Job ID: 154411

Overview

We're looking for an Interoperability Engineer to join our team! In this role, you'll be responsible for production and maintenance support, ensuring high availability, project implementation, technical mentorship, process improvement, and quality assurance of the interfaces in our environment.

Location: Remote/work from home with strong preference for candidates residing within the UPH geographies of Iowa, Illinois, & Wisconsin.

Why UnityPoint Health?

• Commitment to our Team – For the third consecutive year, we're proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare for our commitment to our team members.
• Culture – At UnityPoint Health, you matter. Come for a fulfilling career and experience a culture guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what's right for the people we serve.
• Benefits – Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment – We’re committed to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
• Development – We believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is an essential part of delivering a remarkable employment experience.
• Community Involvement – Be an essential part of our core purpose—to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Visit https://dayinthelife.unitypoint.org/ to hear more from our team members about why UnityPoint Health is a great place to work.

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Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

Interface Engine / Corepoint

• Develops HL7 interfaces utilizing the interface engine. Understands workflows and creates consistent, easy to maintain interface workflows.
• Implements new interfaces and makes changes to existing systems within a multifunctional project team. This includes project planning, requirements definition, detailed design, testing cycles, go live events and stabilization support.
• Resolves incidents with assigned applications that integrate with many other systems.
• Ensures the supported interfaces are monitored, maintained, and available as appropriate.
• Manages, maintains and supports infrastructure components that support the interface environment.
• Provides day and evening on-call coverage as scheduled.

Epic Bridges

• Create, provision, and decommission new Epic Bridges in non-Prod and Production environments.
• Build Epic Bridges error work queues, resolve connectivity errors, and provide training for team and end users.

Epic Care Everywhere & Health Information Exchange

• Familiar with Epic Care Everywhere in order to troubleshoot support issues.
• Maintains directory loads for Epic and non-Epic organizations for event notifications.
• Maintain Epic Care Everywhere and Epic Bridges security templates to provide appropriate Epic security to Care Everywhere end users.

Qualifications

What You'll Need:

Education:

Engineer I - Required: High School Diploma or GED

Engineer II/III-Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related healthcare field or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

Engineer I- Required:

• Minimum 1-3 years of structured programming
• Healthcare taxonomy and workflows.

Engineer II/III: Required:

• Experience in healthcare multiplatform interoperability design and development required
• Epic experience
• Experience in integration engines, i.e., Cloverleaf, Rapsody, CorePoint, etc.
• Structured programming experience
• Experience with HL7 standards and development practices
• Functional knowledge of integration connectivity types
• Care EveryWhere experience Highly Preferred

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Exhibits technical management and problem resolution skills.
• Outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills while demonstrating a high degree of objectivity, diplomacy and tact.
• Knowledge and skills in project coordination methods with an ability to demonstrate methods when needed to lead medium projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Advanced knowledge of health care and revenue cycle applications and how they interface with the technologies we support.
• Ability to work as a team member, creating and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Ability to understand and apply guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Effective interpersonal skills.

What are team member vaccine requirements?

As part of keeping our communities safe and healthy, all team members must be vaccinated for influenza and Tdap, provide proof of immunity to MMR and varicella, and be tested for tuberculosis. New hires must submit proof of vaccination or an approved exemption to begin work. If you have questions, please contact a recruiter or ask at any time during the interview process. UPH strongly recommends that all team members receive the updated COVID-19 vaccine, and at this time, UnityPoint Health – Meriter requires Covid-19 vaccination or an approved exemption.