Senior Interoperability Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Senior Interoperability Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting interoperability solutions within Abbott Diabetes Care, ensuring secure and standards-based data exchange between medical devices and healthcare platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Apply established architectural patterns and best practices for clinical and administrative data exchange
• Perform detailed HL7 v2, HL7 CCD/CDA, and FHIR interface mapping for supported workflows and integrations
• Develop, deploy and support APIs, data pipelines, and integration services for real-time and batch data exchange
• Ensure implemented solutions comply with HIPAA, GDPR, 21st Century Cures Act, and other healthcare data privacy and security regulations
• Troubleshoot complex integration issues and provide technical guidance to project teams
• Provide operational support for interoperability services, including participation in an on-call rotation to diagnose, resolve, and prevent production integration issues
• Collaborate with EHR vendors, health systems, payers, and third-party developers on integration implementation and issue resolution
• Contribute to technical and quality documentation and assist with onboarding and knowledge sharing for interoperability tools
• Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and data quality across supported integrations
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 5+ years of Interoperability Engineering experience
• Proven experience developing and deploying EHR Interoperability solutions and services
• Demonstrated working knowledge of healthcare standards and frameworks such as HL7 v2, FHIR, IHE profiles, SMART on FHIR, and CDS Hooks
• Demonstrated working knowledge of integration engines and their capabilities. (Rhapsody experience heavily preferred)
• Experience securely integrating data using multiple transport and messaging protocols such as MLLP over TCP, HTTPS, SFTP, etc
• Solid understanding of security concepts such as TLS/mTLS, OAuth, JWT, and certificate management
• Working knowledge of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems such as Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athena, etc
• Ability to understand product specifications, architecture, and technical design documentation
• Ability and willingness to train and mentor junior engineers
• Ability to work on multiple work streams concurrently
• HL7 certified in one or more standards: V2, CDA, FHIR
• Certification with one or more middleware platforms such as Rhapsody, Intersystems, Corepoint, Mirth, etc
• Experience with patient matching technologies and algorithms
• Experience configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting high volume interfaces across environments
• Working knowledge of clinical codesets and libraries such as SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, etc
• Experience supporting globally deployed interoperability solutions
• Ability to research and interpret API specs such as Swagger or OpenAPI
• Experience contributing to regulated medical device software that strictly adheres to design controls and quality management system requirements
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams, countries, and time zones
• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and prioritization skills with a results‑oriented mindset
• Experience with agile software development methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, and exposure to CI/CD pipelines