Java Technical Lead - Healthcare Interoperability

Leidos; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions to protect and advance the Australian way of life. The Java Technical Lead - Health Integration designs, builds and supports integration services connecting healthcare and enterprise systems, delivering secure interfaces using HL7 v2 and FHIR.

You will lead complex data transformation and collaborate with stakeholders and vendors to ensure high-quality interoperability.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering healthcare integrations using HL7 v2, FHIR or CDA.
• Expert Java engineering across enterprise integration frameworks.
• Leadership in Agile/Scrum with mentoring and continuous improvement.
• Broad testing experience: unit, integration, API and performance testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, compliant healthcare integrations using FHIR, HL7 v2 and CDA standards.
• Lead Java-based implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns using SOAP/REST APIs and JSON/XML data formats.
• Build, integrate and deploy enterprise-scale solutions using Apache Camel and Apache Kafka.
• Collaborate with Platform and DevOps engineers to design CI/CD pipelines within DevOps and GitOps frameworks across cloud-native environments.
• Champion software quality through comprehensive testing practices and performance/load testing in complex healthcare ecosystems.

Skills

Java

Healthcare integration

Apache Camel

Apache Kafka

Agile/Scrum leadership

Testing practices

JUnit/Apache JMeter

Tools

HL7 v2

FHIR

CDA

Job description

• We're a 'Family Friendly' certified workplace - we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here: Learn more about working at Leidos Australia

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world's toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

The Java Technical Lead - Health Integration designs, builds and supports integration services that connect healthcare and enterprise systems. This role delivers secure, reliable interfaces and APIs using healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 v2 and FHIR. Working closely with delivery teams, client stakeholders and vendors, you will support integrations across environments and lead complex data transformation and validation to ensure high-quality, interoperable healthcare data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, compliant healthcare integrations using FHIR, HL7 v2 and CDA standards.
• Lead Java-based implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns using SOAP/REST APIs and JSON/XML data formats.
• Build, integrate and deploy enterprise-scale solutions using Apache Camel and Apache Kafka.
• Collaborate with Platform and DevOps engineers to design CI/CD pipelines within DevOps and GitOps frameworks across cloud-native environments.
• Champion software quality through comprehensive testing practices and performance/load testing in complex healthcare ecosystems.

About You and What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience designing and delivering healthcare integration solutions using industry interoperability standards.
• Expert-level Java engineering capability across enterprise integration frameworks and technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Camel and Apache Kafka in large-scale environments.
• Proven leadership in Agile/Scrum teams, with a focus on mentoring, continuous improvement and high-quality delivery.
• Broad experience in testing practices including unit, integration, API and performance testing using JUnit, Bruno and Apache JMeter.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and be able to gain a Baseline level security clearance.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.