Interface Engineer

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

Job Description

Position Summary

The Interface Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions that connect clinical laboratories with hospital, laboratory, and medical practice information systems (HIS), electronic health records (EHR), and other healthcare systems. This role ensures seamless data exchange, secure communication, and data integrity between systems to support clinical operations and improve patient care.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, implement and support/maintain interfaces that enable the exchange of patient and lab data between hospital systems (such as HIS and EHR) and laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
• Productivity expectations for a Corepoint Interface Engineer include:
  • Development of 3-4 concurrent interface projects, 10-15 projects yearly.
  • Complete an interface project in 90 days, or as quickly as possible given lab/client resources and competencies.
  • Handle a proportionate share of support tickets for Corepoint environment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including clinical laboratory staff, hospital IT teams, and vendors to define requirements and technical specifications, and clearly set and maintain expectations, challenges, and proposed solutions.
• Implement industry-standard protocols and data formats, such as HL7, JSON or XML, to ensure interoperability between systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve interface-related issues, ensuring timely and accurate data flow between systems.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code for interface development and integration, without flaws, taking into account the specific needs and idiosyncrasies of each lab and hospital/medical practice.
• Conduct testing and quality assurance to validate interfaces, ensuring data consistency, accuracy, and integrity.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring efficient and reliable interface operations.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare standards, regulations (HIPAA, etc.), and best practices for patient data security.
• Participate in system upgrades, migrations, and other ongoing development efforts as needed.
• Communicate project status and issues to the management and other stakeholders through meetings, emails and key documents.
• Interact and clearly communicate with clients, industry peers, software support teams, and ELE staff as required.

Qualifications

Basic Minimum Qualifications (BMQ)

• Deep experience designing, developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining interfaces using the Corepoint Interface Engine, including 3-5 years’ experience minimum, more preferred, particularly in the healthcare/clinical laboratory domain.
• Ability to troubleshoot, debug, optimize and support Corepoint interfaces.
• Familiarity with engine upgrades, version management and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of HL7 messaging, ADT ORM ORU DFT, etc. and message segmentation data types and flows.
• Experience with standards such as JSON, XML, CDA.
• Experience with networking and file transfer protocols such as TCP-IP, VPN sFTP/FTPs), HTTP/S web services, REST/SOAP, and the requisite certificate authentication methods.
• Experience developing APIs and integrating with external systems using secure transport and authentication methods.
• Strong experience with data mapping and transformation, logic between source systems, laboratory LIS/LIMS, EHRs and HIS systems and other target systems through the engine.
• Experience with software development lifecycle principles and version controls.
• Ability to translate functional/clinical requirements into interface specifications and complete technical designs.
• Clear effective oral and written communication skills, in the English language.

Education/Experience

• Ten years’ experience in healthcare IT interface development with a strong emphasis on HL7, interface engine technology and requirements.
• Extensive experience developing and maintaining interfaces in Corepoint Integration Engine.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Informatics or equivalent real world experience.

Ability and/or Skills

• Strong project planning, leadership, negotiation and communication skills as well as an ability to contribute creative and practical solutions to problems.
• Excellent organization, communication (oral and written) and attention to detail, committed to quality and timely deliverables.
• Experience with system integration design, data flow architecture and scalable solutions design.
• Strong testing skills, building test plans, performing interface validation, error analysis and regression testing.
• Troubleshooting production issues, determining root causes, and implementing fixes under SLA requirements.
• On-call support rotation capability.
• Knowledge of clinical workflows, lab system requirements, lab order and results handling in the US clinical space.
• Exposure to EHR systems, such as Epic, Cerner, Meditech, etc., and strong understanding of how they interface with Corepoint.
• Understanding HIPAA and various other compliance/privacy/security requirements and compliance standards around healthcare data integration.
• Ability to work closely with clinical stakeholders, project managers, WQA teams, vendors and cross functional IT teams.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Excellent clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.

Additional Information

What we offer:

• Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation and holidays

Eurofins USA Clinical Diagnostics is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.