What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Technology Solution Architect position at Edera L3C?
Clinical Technology Solution Architect (CTSA)Edera L3C is a fast-growing healthcare consultancy that addresses today’s issues and helps create tomorrow’s solutions by connecting the brightest minds in healthcare. Our team of management, clinical, revenue, technology, and creative services consultants work collaboratively with industry experts who bring deep experience and expertise to create transformational business solutions. We believe complex challenges and multi-faceted opportunities call for multi-disciplinary approaches and that’s how we work. We transform healthcare by bringing industry best practices from the private sector to the public sector, and the public sector to the private sector. Edera is an L3C (a variation of a limited liability company) that places “purpose before profit;” a social enterprise venture. This means we are focused on a socially beneficial mission to transform organizations rather than being driven to maximize income. Profits beyond our business sustainability goals are reinvested into communities or clients. The Clinical Technology Solution Architect (CTSA) will directly support client delivery with a focus on demonstrating value and impact delivered. A Clinical Technology Solution Architect is responsible for designing and implementing healthcare technology solutions that enhance clinical workflows, improve patient outcomes, and streamline operations. This person bridges the gap between IT systems and clinical needs, ensuring interoperability, compliance with regulations, and secure integration of technologies like EHRs, telemedicine platforms, and data analytics tools. The role involves collaborating with clinicians, IT teams, and stakeholders to develop scalable, secure, and efficient systems that align with healthcare organizations' strategic goals.The ideal candidate will be results-driven, work well under defined deadlines, and produce strong work products using innovative thinking and a can-do attitude. Our Clinical Technology Solution Architect will contribute and support a collaborative team in our pursuit for yet another Edera 5-star client delivery. While not required but rather highly desired, our CTSA will leverage their prior practical experience in military field healthcare environments and HIT system transitions, large scale implementations, or modernizations. Type of Employment: Full Tie role with opportunity for other employment status options.Work Location/Travel: Washington, DC Moderate to high percentage of travel required. Applicants should be free from travel restrictions.Salary: Highly competitive salary/pay, potential for bonus and/or incentives.There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is highly competitive but dependent upon employment type (1099, contract, W2). Role Reports to: Hiring ManagerDirect Reports: This role has no direct reportsResponsibilities: The Clinical Technology Solution Architect will engage in several key activities on the project, including:• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with clinical teams, IT professionals, and project managers to gather requirements, discuss progress, and align solutions with user needs and project goals; Facilitating technical interviews and working sessions with client teams.• Solution Design & Development: Identifying process and requirement gaps in architecting and refining technical solutions, ensuring that systems are scalable, interoperable, and meet compliance standards. This includes reviewing and adjusting designs to address any emerging technical challenges. Determining system integration needs, ensuring seamless interoperability between clinical systems. Understanding system capabilities, analyzing the business and clinical categorization of functionalities. Developing business process requirements and mapping workflows. • Documentation & Reporting: Creating and updating technical documentation, architectural blueprints, analysis summaries, project reports, and deliverables, keeping stakeholders informed of milestones and any issues that may arise.• Troubleshooting & Problem-Solving: Assessing functional and technical information gaps, identifying and understanding any immediate technical issues, system performance challenges, and providing guidance to the team on solution optimization for translation into new requirements.• Collaboration with Vendors: Working with external vendors to gather project information necessary to identify gaps, assess impact, recommendations, and new requirements.Knowledge and Skills Required: • Healthcare IT Expertise: Strong knowledge of clinical systems like EHRs (e.g., Cerner, ViSTA), DoD MHS GENESIS and Operational Medicine, telemedicine, and healthcare IT infrastructure.• Clinical Workflow Understanding: Experience optimizing clinical processes and aligning technology with healthcare operations.• Technical Architecture: Proficiency in system design, integration, interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR), and cloud technologies• Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with healthcare compliance (e.g., HIPAA) and security protocols• Collaboration & Communication: Strong interpersonal skills for working with clinicians, IT teams, and stakeholders.• Project Management: Experience overseeing complex projects, managing timelines, and ensuring successful implementation of healthcare technology solutions. Experience Required: • A minimum of 6 years in the health information technology field• 2 or more large scale health information technology implementations or modernizations resulting in successful • Experience with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, DICOM), and an understanding of FHIR API and application design is preferred. Technical Skills Required: • Strong proficiency with MS Office 365 skills to include MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint • Familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, DICOM); an understanding of FHIR API and app design, familiarity with digital quality measurement, experience with use-cases involving EHR data in downstream/value-add applications; and a good understanding of the challenges and limitations of using real-world clinical data in quality measurement. Education/Certification Required: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.• Master’s degree preferred, but not requiredAll applicants must be US citizens and able to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Edera participates in the E-Verify program. Edera is a drug-free workplace. Edera is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Edera prohibits discrimination against individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. Edera takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, or veteran status.