Senior Interoperability Engineer

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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Senior Interoperability Engineer is an experienced technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting interoperability solutions within Abbott Diabetes Care while supporting our mission to improve patient outcomes and become the most connected CGM in the market. This role ensures secure, reliable, and standards‑based data exchange between medical devices, clinical systems, and external healthcare platforms while meeting regulatory, safety, and quality requirements.

The Senior Interoperability Engineer partners with engineering, product, commercial, and quality teams to deliver high‑quality interoperability solutions and resolve complex integration challenges. This role serves as a strong technical contributor with deep hands‑on expertise in healthcare interoperability standards and plays a key role in delivering scalable, compliant, and patient‑safe connectivity solutions for current products. #software

What You'll Do

Technical Execution

• Apply established architectural patterns and best practices for clinical and administrative data exchange.
• Perform detailed HL7 v2, HL7 CCD/CDA, and FHIR interface mapping for supported workflows and integrations.
• Develop, deploy and support APIs, data pipelines, and integration services for real-time and batch data exchange.
• Ensure implemented solutions comply with HIPAA, GDPR, 21st Century Cures Act, and other healthcare data privacy and security regulations.
• Troubleshoot complex integration issues and provide technical guidance to project teams.
• Provide operational support for interoperability services, including participation in an on‑call rotation to diagnose, resolve, and prevent production integration issues.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Collaborate with EHR vendors, health systems, payers, and third‑party developers on integration implementation and issue resolution.
• Contribute to technical and quality documentation and assist with onboarding and knowledge sharing for interoperability tools.
• Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and data quality across supported integrations.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.

Critical Success Indicators:

• Delivered multiple production‑grade EHR interoperability solutions supporting customer and patient workflows.

• Demonstrated ability to implement healthcare standards‑based solutions that integrate effectively into real‑world clinical environments.
• Proven collaboration with cross‑functional teams including software engineering, product, commercial, and quality.
• Strong working knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and frameworks such as HL7 v2/v3, FHIR, DICOM, IHE.
• Practical understanding and effective use of healthcare middleware and integration platforms.

Required Qualifications  

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 5+ years of Interoperability Engineering experience
• Proven experience developing and deploying EHR Interoperability solutions and services
• Demonstrated working knowledge of healthcare standards and frameworks such as HL7 v2, FHIR, IHE profiles, SMART on FHIR, and CDS Hooks
• Demonstrated working knowledge of integration engines and their capabilities.  (Rhapsody experience heavily preferred)
• Experience securely integrating data using multiple transport and messaging protocols such as MLLP over TCP, HTTPS, SFTP, etc.
• Solid understanding of security concepts such as TLS/mTLS, OAuth, JWT, and certificate management
• Working knowledge of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems such as  Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athena, etc.
• Ability to understand product specifications, architecture, and technical design documentation
• Ability and willingness to train and mentor junior engineers
• Ability to work on multiple work streams concurrently

Preferred Qualifications  

• HL7 certified in one or more standards:  V2, CDA, FHIR
• Certification with one or more middleware platforms such as Rhapsody, Intersystems, Corepoint, Mirth, etc. 
• Experience with patient matching technologies and algorithms
• Experience configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting high volume interfaces across environments
• Working knowledge of clinical codesets and libraries such as SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, etc.
• Experience supporting globally deployed interoperability solutions
• Ability to research and interpret API specs such as Swagger or OpenAPI
• Experience contributing to regulated medical device software that strictly adheres to design controls and quality management system requirements
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams, countries, and time zones
• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and prioritization skills with a results‑oriented mindset
• Experience with agile software development methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, and exposure to CI/CD pipelines.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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