Senior Clinical Ontology & Informatics Leader

Inovalon Inc; Bowie, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Inovalon Inc. seeks a seasoned Clinical Informatics & Ontology Lead to own ontology strategy, governance, and terminology services across enterprise data products.

You will guide normalization workflows, value sets, and reference tables, collaborating with engineering, product, and clinical teams to ensure fidelity and compliance. You will translate complex terminology decisions for stakeholders, maintain governance documentation, and lead modernization initiatives including knowledge graph

Qualifications

• 10+ years in healthcare data, clinical informatics, terminology management, ontology governance, or a related field with a Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of experience in healthcare data, clinical informatics, terminology management, ontology governance, clinical data normalization, or a related field with a Master's degree required.
• Terminology Expertise: Deep hands-on expertise with ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, clinical concept modeling, value sets, crosswalks, and terminology lifecycle management required.
• SQL and Data Analysis Skills: Proficiency with SQL for querying, profiling, validating, and investigating large-scale healthcare datasets, including EHR, claims, RWD, and normalized clinical data assets.
• Data Normalization and Ontology Management: Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or governing clinical normalization workflows, semantic mappings, terminology services, reference tables, and/or ontology management platforms.
• Communication and Leadership: Ability to translate complex terminology and ontology decisions for product, engineering, clinical, governance, and executive stakeholders; ability to document decisions clearly and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Organizational Skills: Ability to manage multiple terminology, normalization, and product-support workstreams in a fast-paced, agile environment while maintaining strong version control, decision traceability, and prioritization discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, governance, and maintenance of clinical ontologies and terminology assets (ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm).
• Translate business, clinical, and product requirements into terminology configurations and implementation priorities.
• Direct clinical normalization approaches for structured and unstructured data with high fidelity mappings.
• Collaborate with Data Eng, Product, and Clinical teams to ensure accurate data specifications and downstream products.
• Define terminology-driven data quality rules and semantic validation checks; partner on gaps and drift.
• Oversee migration of legacy reference tables to scalable terminology services and ontology workflows.
• Evaluate new data assets for clinical depth and normalization readiness; present structured recommendations.
• Maintain documentation of ontology decisions, mappings, value sets, version changes, and downstream dependencies.

Skills

ICD-10-CM expertise

SNOMED CT & LOINC

CPT & RxNorm

SQL proficiency

Data analysis

Terminology governance

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics or related field

Master's degree in Medical/Health Informatics

Certifications: AHIC, CPHIMS, RHIA, CCS, CHDA

Job description

Inovalon Inc. seeks a seasoned Clinical Informatics & Ontology Lead to own ontology strategy, governance, and terminology services across enterprise data products.

You will guide normalization workflows, value sets, and reference tables, collaborating with engineering, product, and clinical teams to ensure fidelity and compliance. You will translate complex terminology decisions for stakeholders, maintain governance documentation, and lead modernization initiatives including knowledge graph