HL7 Integration Developer
Position Summary
The HL7 Integration Developer designs, builds, tests, deploys, and supports healthcare interfaces that
move clinical and operational data securely and reliably between internal applications, customer systems,
laboratories, hospitals, public-health partners, and other external platforms. This role requires hands-on
development in both Java and Lua and production experience with both Mirth Connect and
iNTERFACEWARE Iguana.
Location: Remote
Work Timings- 9 AM to 5 PM EST
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, configure, and maintain HL7 interfaces and integration workflows using Mirth
Connect and iNTERFACEWARE Iguana.
- Write, review, troubleshoot, and optimize Java and Lua code used for message transformation,
validation, routing, enrichment, and error handling.
- Implement and support HL7 v2 message flows, including ADT, ORM, ORU, SIU, DFT, ACK/NACK
handling, custom Z-segments, and customer-specific specifications.
- Build and support TCP/IP MLLP, HTTPS/REST, SOAP, SFTP, database, file-based, and related
integration endpoints.
- Create mapping specifications and transform data among HL7, XML, JSON, delimited files, and
relational databases.
- Perform unit, integration, regression, volume, and end-to-end testing; create test messages and
document expected results.
- Monitor production interfaces, analyze logs and queues, resolve message failures, perform rootcause
analysis, and implement durable corrective actions.
- Partner with product, implementation, support, security, infrastructure, and customer technical teams
to clarify requirements and deliver interfaces.
- Maintain interface documentation, data-flow diagrams, deployment procedures, runbooks, and
change records.
- Follow secure development, source-control, peer-review, change-management, privacy, and
regulated healthcare data-handling practices.
- Participate in scheduled releases and an on-call or after-hours support rotation as business needs
require.
Required Qualifications
- Professional experience developing and supporting healthcare interfaces in a production
environment.
- Strong hands-on Java development experience, including debugging, libraries/APIs, data
manipulation, and maintainable coding practices.
- Strong hands-on Lua development experience for healthcare integration, transformation, and
interface logic.
- Production experience building and supporting interfaces in Mirth Connect (NextGen Connect).
- Production experience building and supporting interfaces in iNTERFACEWARE Iguana.
- Strong knowledge of HL7 v2 structure, segments, fields, components, data types,
acknowledgements, and common trigger events.
- Experience with XML, JSON, REST APIs, SQL, relational databases, TCP/IP, MLLP, and secure file
transfer.
- Ability to diagnose interface problems across applications, networks, certificates, databases, and
message content.
- Experience with Git or another source-control system and disciplined software development and
release practices.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work directly with technical and
nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Five or more years of healthcare integration or interface-development experience.
- Experience with FHIR resources and APIs, CDA/CCD, X12, DICOM, or other healthcare
interoperability standards.
- Experience integrating laboratory, hospital, EHR/EMR, public-health, or newborn-screening systems.
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Linux, Windows Server, cloud environments,
containers, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of interface security, TLS/mTLS, certificates, OAuth 2.0, encryption, auditing, and secrets management.
Understanding of HIPAA, PHI/PII protection, least privilege, data minimization, and secure software
development.
- Relevant certification or formal training in HL7, FHIR, Mirth Connect, Iguana, Java, or healthcare
interoperability.
Success Measures
- Interfaces meet approved functional, security, performance, and reliability requirements.
- Message failures and production incidents are identified, communicated, and resolved within agreed
service levels.
- Code, mappings, tests, deployment records, and operational documentation are complete and
supportable.
- Solutions are reusable, observable, maintainable, and delivered with minimal disruption to customers
and clinical workflows.
Working Conditions and Compliance
The role may require access to systems containing protected health information or other sensitive data.
The selected candidate must comply with company security, privacy, acceptable-use, access-control,
and incident-reporting requirements and complete any required background screening and training.