FHIR Specialist (PL816)

Our public sector client is seeking an experienced FHIR Specialist to serve as the FHIR design authority on a programme modernising data interoperability within the Child Welfare domain. The successful candidate will lead information modelling, semantic mapping, and design governance for FHIR-based solutions, working closely with clinical, technical, and business stakeholders to enable secure, scalable, and standards-compliant health information exchange.

This role is central to ensuring that FHIR resources, profiles, and extensions are designed consistently, documented clearly, and reusable across multiple downstream consumers.

Key Responsibilities

Information Modelling & Mapping

• Work with source system SMEs to interpret business requirements and identify appropriate FHIR resources, profiles, and extensions

• Perform data mapping from Child Welfare source systems to the FHIR data model

• Design and govern FHIR standards, profiles, extensions, and value sets

• Define consistent, reusable conventions for how FHIR resources are structured, related, and used across multiple use cases and consumers

• Act as the FHIR design authority, making and documenting modelling decisions and trade-offs

• Produce clear FHIR modelling, mapping, and design documentation suitable for technical and non-technical audiences

• Communicate FHIR modelling decisions effectively to architects, developers, and business stakeholders

FHIR Integration & Interoperability

• Define and apply FHIR metadata, tags, or classifications to support security, privacy, and access control decisions across multiple downstream consumers

• Define and manage FHIR profile and extension versioning to support change without breaking consumers

• Design FHIR representations and usage conventions that are reusable and consistent across multiple downstream applications

• Support and troubleshoot end-to-end FHIR data flows

Microsoft FHIR Ecosystem

• Work with or validate designs involving Microsoft's FHIR solutions (e.g., Azure Health Data Services FHIR service)

• Participate in discussions with Microsoft on AHDS FHIR capabilities and design validation

General

• Ensure solutions meet privacy, security, and compliance requirements (PHIPA / HIPAA, as applicable)

• Collaborate with architects, developers, clinicians, and policy teams

• Support testing, validation, and troubleshooting of interoperability workflows

• Contribute to documentation and knowledge transfer activities

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working with healthcare interoperability standards

• Strong hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR (R4)

• Deep understanding of HL7 FHIR (R4) semantics, constraints, and best practices for resource relationships, cardinality, identifiers, and coding

• Strong capability in FHIR-based information modelling and semantic mapping

• Deep understanding of FHIR JSON formats to communicate technical requirements to architects and developers

• Experience with FHIR profiling, extensions, and value sets

• Ability to produce clear FHIR modelling, mapping, and design documentation suitable for technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience designing FHIR representations and usage conventions that are reusable and consistent across multiple downstream applications

• Experience acting as a FHIR design authority, making and documenting modelling decisions and trade-offs

• Experience working in public sector or regulated healthcare environments

• Strong communication skills and ability to work with non-technical stakeholders

Technical Skills

• HL7 FHIR (R4)

• FHIR JSON / XML formats

• REST APIs / JSON / XML

• Azure Health Data Services (FHIR), including search, filtering, and pagination

• API testing tools (Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI)

• Security standards (OAuth 2.0, SMART on FHIR – asset)