Senior Healthcare Integration Engineer – Epic/HL7

Job Description

Location: Chicago, Illinois / Remote

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: Enterprise App Intgrtn & Dvlp

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 4:00:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Pay Range: $41.88 - $62.40 per hour

Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case.

Summary:

Build the integrations that keep healthcare technology connected at Rush!

Rush is seeking a Senior Healthcare Integration Engineer – Epic/HL7 to design, develop, maintain, and optimize the interfaces that connect Epic and other critical healthcare systems. In this senior technical role, you’ll help ensure reliable data exchange across clinical and operational applications, supporting the technology that enables coordinated care and efficient healthcare delivery.

You’ll develop and support HL7/FHIR interfaces, manage Epic Bridges and InterConnect integrations, troubleshoot connectivity and messaging issues, and lead interface testing for system enhancements, upgrades, and new implementations. You’ll also review technical specifications, collaborate with vendors and internal teams, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior engineers while helping establish technical standards and documentation.

What you’ll bring: Extensive experience developing and supporting production healthcare interfaces, hands-on expertise with an integration engine such as InterSystems HealthShare/Ensemble, current Epic certification, and a strong foundation in networking, Unix commands, APIs, and web services. Leadership, troubleshooting, and communication skills are essential. Experience with cloud technologies, server administration, and ServiceNow is a plus.

If you’re passionate about healthcare interoperability and enjoy solving complex technical challenges while helping others grow, explore this opportunity to make an impact at Rush.

Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and ICARE values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Serve team as a subject matter expert in complex technical areas critical to the organization.

• Responsible for keeping current with leading integration technologies as well as evaluation/adoption of new solutions.

• Responsible and accountable for internal system administration (Bridges, InterConnect, Middleware, etc.)

• Analyzes results of user testing to define interface requirements and develops specifications or prototypes.

• Develops, designs, and edits interface templates or interface code, following established software development methodologies.

• Writes test plans and conducts testing to ensure interface usability, functionality and compatibility with existing technologies.

• Participates in code reviews with junior engineers.

• Review and gap analysis of messaging protocols/structures (HL7, FHIR, etc.) supplied through vendor requirements/specifications.

• Programmatic design, development, and testing of interface pathways to support enhancements, modifications, upgrades, and new system implementations.

• Remain current certification standings (Epic, other) and demonstrate ability to follow established software development methodologies as well as department standard procedures and policies.

• Oversee integrated testing cycles and ensure interface usability, functionality and compatibility with existing technologies – making necessary adjustments or modifications as indicated.

• Configuration and maintenance of Epic Bridges Interfaces as well as InterConnect Services; including reading and review of release notes and service bulletins.

• Technical Support of Epic upgrade release schedule as indicated.

• Maintain and configuration of organizational FTP transfers as indicated.

• Conduct peer code reviews with junior team members.

• Manages user support and feedback.

• Escalation of issues accordingly within department ServiceNow policy (Manager) – communication and inclusion of vendor related appropriate parties

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Minimum of five (5) + years’ experience designing, developing, and supporting production HL7/FHIR interfaces, using an interface engine platform like InterSystems Healthshare/Ensemble

• Current Epic Certification (Bridges, InterConnect, App Orchard, other)

• Certification/proven experiences using one of the following interface engines: InterSystems Healthshare Ensemble, INFOR Cloverleaf, Rhapsody, E*Gate/JCAPPS, other

• 3 + years’ experience with Networking (connectivity troubleshooting, VPN, etc.)

• 3 + years’ experience with basic Unix commands

• Requires a strong understanding and ability to demonstrate front-end programming technologies, which may include cache object script, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or others.

• Experience with API and web service integrations

• 3 + years mentoring/leading integration development team members: training, coaching, and assistance

• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience of Implementing technical related team documentation (written standards, procedures and policies)

• Analytical, multi-tasking and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to validate vendor technical specification and facilitate testing

• Ability to work with a team.

• Demonstration of Leadership skills.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Exposure to project management with track record of maintaining deliverables and communication of responsible milestone and task to the project teams.

• Exposure to server administration, security, active directory, and cloud technologies

• Experience with ServiceNow or similar incident tracking software.

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Position Senior Healthcare Integration Engineer – Epic/HL7

Location US:IL:Chicago

Req ID 30408