Senior Data Standards Programmer
Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Contract
9 hours ago
Key skills
JavaScriptPythonJavaSQLETLPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBOracleElasticsearchAgile
About this role
Job Title: Principal / Senior Data Standards Programmer
Location: Bethesda, Maryland 20894
Client: National Library of Medicine s (NLM) /National Institutes of Health
Note: This is a hybrid position
Job Description:
Responsibilities
Develop, maintain, and enhance healthcare terminology and biomedical information systems.
Support applications and services associated with:
o Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
o Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
o RxNorm
o Value Set Authority Center (VSAC)
o Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs)
o Digital Quality Measures (dQMs)
Develop and maintain terminology services, APIs, data-processing workflows, and integration solutions.
Support healthcare terminology releases using XML, RDF, MARC, and other structured formats.
Perform database programming, data modeling, schema design, and optimization.
Support HL7 FHIR terminology services and healthcare interoperability initiatives.
Develop ETL processes and data transformation solutions.
Troubleshoot application, database, and data-quality issues.
Collaborate with healthcare SMEs, developers, and system administrators.
Required Skills
5+ years of software development and database programming experience.
Experience supporting healthcare IT applications and terminology systems.
Knowledge of:
o HL7 FHIR
o Healthcare interoperability standards
o Clinical terminology systems
o Biomedical data models
Strong SQL development skills.
Experience with:
o Oracle
o PostgreSQL
o MySQL
o MongoDB
o Elasticsearch
Programming experience with:
o Java
o Python
o JavaScript
o XML
Experience with APIs, ETL processes, and Agile development.