Remote Chief Data & Interoperability Architect - FHIR/HL7

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Travel to Reston

Federal health program impact

Cutting-edge data & interoperability

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Chief Data & Interoperability Architect to shape enterprise data strategy for a federal health program. Remote role with near-real-time data exchange across teams, including legacy-to-modern migration and security-focused collaboration.

The position requires deep experience with HL7 v2, FHIR interfaces, REST APIs, and cloud integrations. You will drive SaFe-aligned delivery and modernization initiatives across development, data, operations, and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, health informatics, or related field with 8-12 years of relevant experience.
• 10 years in software engineering, systems integration, or data engineering, including 3 years as a solution architect or technical lead.
• Experience with production HL7 v2 and FHIR interfaces, including mapping and validation.
• Proficient in designing REST APIs and cloud-hosted integrations using enterprise integration engines or API-management platforms.
• Experience with containerized microservices and migrating legacy SOAP services to REST/FHIR, preferably in AWS GovCloud.
• Knowledge of event-driven or streaming data flows, such as Kafka or Amazon MSK/Kinesis.
• Familiarity with MHS/DHA environments and government compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the data and interoperability architecture, including HL7 v2 and FHIR interfaces
• Lead migration of legacy SOAP services to containerized REST and FHIR R4 APIs on AWS GovCloud
• Define the OMOP Common Data Model and design event-driven data flows for near-real-time exchange
• Design REST APIs and cloud-hosted integrations on an enterprise integration engine or API-management platform
• Translate architecture into backlog work and support iterative testing and release demos within SAFe and Azure DevOps
• Align technical decisions across development, data, operations, and security teams

Skills

HL7 v2

FHIR

REST APIs

AWS GovCloud

Data architecture

SAFe

Azure DevOps

Kafka/Streaming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Health Informatics

Tools

Enterprise integration engines

API-management platforms

AWS GovCloud

Kafka

MSK/Kinesis

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Chief Data & Interoperability Architect to shape enterprise data strategy for a federal health program. Remote role with near-real-time data exchange across teams, including legacy-to-modern migration and security-focused collaboration.

The position requires deep experience with HL7 v2, FHIR interfaces, REST APIs, and cloud integrations. You will drive SaFe-aligned delivery and modernization initiatives across development, data, operations, and security.