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The opportunity

• Create, standardise and maintain national and international FHIR standards to support exchange of digital health information.
• Full-time opportunities with remote/hybrid working options from four major cities in Australia.
• Join CSIRO’s AEHRC! A truly collaborative, flexible and inclusive workplace and make improvements to healthcare.

The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) is CSIRO’s national digital health research program, enabling the digital transformation of healthcare to improve services and clinical treatment for Australians and beyond.

We are actively seeking FHIR Solution Architect to join the FHIR Accelerator team in AEHRC, working closely with the AEHRC team, along with other collaborators and stakeholders in creating, developing, managing and supporting open data exchange standards and capabilities to meet the current and future needs for Australia’s health system.

If you have the expertise in creating, standardising and maintaining national and international FHIR standards, to facilitate the safe and accurate exchange of digital health information across the health sector, then do not hesitate to apply. This role will be accountable for the development of HL7 AU FHIR standard and associated materials through a community-led process. This role will also support data standards, clinical terminology, and project tasks as needed.

This opportunity comes with a high degree of flexibility and hybrid working arrangements from home and office supporting interstate collaboration between diversely distributed teams.

Your duties will include:

• Apply understanding of FHIR, interoperability, systems integration, AU Health and healthcare systems, and open source standards to end-to-end exchange of digital health information across the health sector to develop architecture strategies and solutions as part of a national standard for data exchange.
• Translate requirements from different stakeholders into technical solutions, maintaining the integrity of a national standard approach while addressing the agreed needs of stakeholders.
• Facilitate community-led process to solution designs, systems views and architectures.
• Develop software system designs and technical documentation to guide new system developments, changes, and refactoring efforts.
• Technically produce and maintain FHIR conformance resources.
• Contribute to FHIR implementation guides, test suites, tools.
• Provide input into proposed implementation approaches and provide support and guidance to implementers and projects on implementation and deployment of standards.
• Research new technical approaches to solving problems.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including software implementers, standards organisations, other agencies, and industry bodies.

Location:Brisbane QLD (preferred) else open to Sydney NSW, Canberra ACT, Melbourne VIC

Salary: AU$126k- AU$148k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Specified term of 1 years / Full-time

Reference: 96363

To be considered you will need:

Essential

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in IT.
• Demonstrated experience with the design and development of software systems within a variety of technical development and deployment environments.
• Experience in the Health domain and HL7 standards (especially with HL7’s FHIR Specification).
• Knowledge and understanding of common patterns applied to problems within software systems design and integration.
• Knowledge and experience with the design and implementation of APIs.
• Experience implementing and contributing to technical standards and specifications.

Desirable

• Experience working with agile software development practices.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including knowledge of logical modelling and ontologies.
• Familiarity with terminology and other standards used in the Australian health industry e.g., SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, OAuth, OpenID Connect.
• Familiarity with the design and development of FHIR implementation guides.

For full details about this role please review the Position Description.

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens or Australian Permanent Residents. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible working arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

Diversity and inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to apply

Please apply online, and provide a detailed cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role. Please note that we strongly encourage you to respond to each of the selection criteria in detail, and attach it to your cover letter as one document.

Applications close

8 August 2024, 11:00pm AEST.

We strongly encourage you to apply early as we will be reviewing applications as they come through. CSIRO reserves the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date if required.