This is a hands-on engineering role. The engineer should be comfortable entering a complex legacy environment, discovering how existing integrations operate, documenting undocumented workflows, and independently developing a practical migration plan.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform a complete assessment of the existing HL7 integration environment, including approximately eight HL7 engine instances and their connected facilities.
- Inventory and document HL7 channels, interfaces, endpoints, message types, transformations, routing rules, dependencies, and failure-handling processes.
- Work closely with existing engineering staff to capture historical system knowledge and convert it into maintainable technical documentation and runbooks.
- Review existing Mirth Connect and BridgeLink configurations and identify redundant, outdated, or inefficient channels.
- Develop a strategy to consolidate HL7 transformations currently performed at edge locations into a centralized HL7 hub.
- Design and support HL7 workflows associated with a new cloud-based PACS platform.
- Support the consolidation of multiple PACS environments into a single modern PACS architecture.
- Design event-driven HL7 workflows to maintain synchronization between PACS and clinical systems and reduce risks such as duplicate radiology reads.
- Configure and troubleshoot HL7 V2 interfaces, including common ADT, ORM, ORU, SIU, and related message workflows.
- Build and modify Mirth channels, filters, mappings, routing logic, and JavaScript transformations.
- Troubleshoot message failures, interface delays, duplicate messages, incorrect mappings, connectivity problems, and downstream processing issues.
- Support DICOM and radiology integration workflows involving DCM4CHE, DICOM routers, PACS, RIS, and related imaging systems.
- Participate in migration planning, testing, validation, cutover, rollback planning, and production support.
- Assist with moving integration services from a fragile data-center environment into AWS or Azure.
- Provide regular technical status updates, risk assessments, architecture documentation, and implementation recommendations.
- Work independently for extended periods while coordinating closely with engineering, clinical operations, vendors, and leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with HL7 V2 healthcare integrations.
- Production experience with Mirth Connect / NextGen Connect.
- Experience with BridgeLink or similar healthcare interface engines.
- Strong understanding of HL7 segments, fields, data types, message routing, transformations, acknowledgments, and error handling.
- Experience auditing and cleaning up existing HL7 environments.
- Experience designing or maintaining complex healthcare data flows across multiple facilities.
- Experience with JavaScript transformations inside Mirth.
- Working knowledge of SQL for troubleshooting, validation, and data analysis.
- Experience creating interface documentation, architecture diagrams, dependency maps, and operational runbooks.
- Ability to independently investigate undocumented legacy integrations.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical engineers and non-technical healthcare operations teams.
- Radiology / DICOM Experience
- Candidates should have practical exposure to radiology integration workflows.
- Experience with the following is strongly preferred: