Programmer/Developer

Following is the Job Description:

Requisition ID : 64324
Requisition Name: Programmer/Developer
Location: Nashville, Tennessee Hybrid
Estimated Duration : 07/07/2025 - 06/30/2026

Technical Support and Documentation:

• Provide HL7 FHIR subject matter technical expertise consultation and hands-on technical guidance for interoperability projects, assisting with design and data flow of public health interfaces

• Develop and maintain documentation for FHIR interface workflows, quality assurance processes, and troubleshooting guides

• ctively participate and provide technical expertise and recommendations during TDH interoperability-related meetings, including facilitating interoperability and implementation discussions

Strategy and Planning:

• Lead strategic planning work to assess agency-level FHIR readiness including building capacity to adopt public health FHIR solutions

• ssist with Department EDI Interoperability Governance, Infrastructure, and Architecture enhancement activities

Interoperability Standards:

• Maintain understanding of current and emerging public health interoperability standards and help Department understand implications of current and future usage

• Participate in public health standards development activities, specifically those public health standards and specifications determined important to helping meet the needs of Department program implementation requirements

Education and Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in public health informatics, epidemiology, computer science, computer information science, or related information technology field with 5 years of relevant HL7 FHIR experience

Preferred Qualifications:
PhD or Master's degree in public health informatics, epidemiology, computer science, computer information science, or related information technology field with 2 years of relevant HL7 FHIR experience

• FHIR implementation experience and FHIR interface work with public health or clinical information systems

• Familiarity with HL7 FHIR implementation guides

• Familiarity with electronic data interchange (EDI) EDI engines such as Rhapsody

• Experience providing technical training on FHIR interoperability standards

Experience aligning technical workflows and data initiatives with state and federal public health priorities and FHIR interoperability standards

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills and attention to detail required

• bility to work with minimal supervision, both independently and as an effective member of a cross-agency team

• bility to work under strict deadlines and time constraints, and to establish and manage competing priorities

• Detail-oriented, with the ability to critically analyze and solve systems-level problems

• Strong oral and written communication skills to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.