Interface Engineer at MEDSTAR HEALTH

General Summary of Position
Responsible for detailed analysis, design, and maintenance of system integration functions. Engineer performs feasibility studies and requirements analysis for system integration between applications using healthcare and industry standard formats. Solutions will typically include message routing, reformatting with GUI tools and scripting languages, and the use of various communication protocols including SNA, TCP/IPand FTP.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Contributes to the development and execution of user training courses. Develops user documentation to stimulate optimal use of administrative, clinical, and financial applications.

Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards. Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.

Develops integration solutions that typically include message routing, reformatting with GUI tools and scripting languages, and the use of various communication protocols.

Keeps abreast of current trends and developments in the healthcare industry.

Participates in all aspects of the development methodology including requirements analysis, functional specification definition, project work plans, test plans, and acceptance criteria.

Participates in developing and maintaining project documentation for administrative, clinical and financial applications.

Participates in meetings and on committees. May participate in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.

Participates in the management of system interfaces for administrative, clinical, and financial applications. Participates in transaction modeling, file archival procedures, and interface performance monitoring and tuning.

Performs feasibility studies and requirements analysis for system integration between applications using healthcare and industry standard formats.

Validates system performance through controlled unit, system, integration, and volume testing and regular systems review upon attainment of production status.

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Minimum Qualifications
Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent technical experience required

Experience

1-2 years 2 years related experience in application development including operating system shell script programming and development languages required

Licenses and Certifications

No special certification, registration or license required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Strong analytical ability to solve complex technical issues.
Communication skills for the development of documented procedures, change control, and project management. Application analysis, development, testing, and coding skills to support an interface life cycle development.
Familiarity with mainframe concepts, server, and desktop environments.
Strong interpersonal skills to effectively deal with internal and external customers.
Experience in two or more of the following languages: JAVA, C, C++, Perl, Tcl, SQL, XML or a compiler language. Familiarity with Healthcare and HL7 standards is preferred.
Knowledge of ANSI X-12 standards preferred.

This position has a hiring range of $80,995 - $152,027

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