Instrument Interface Specialist

This position is a facilitator and a liaison between Business and IT for Instrumentation changes and LIS changes related to instrumentation. This position requires a broad understanding of laboratory instrumentation, middleware utilized for instrumentation, business processes related to validating and processing orders/results, and requirements gathering/documenting concepts. An instrument interface specialist will collaborate with Product Management, Solution Architects, Business Partners, Application Development, and Software Quality Assurance.

Qualifications:
Required Work Experience:
• Required 5 years of experience in medical lab operations, IT functions, and instrument interface deployments, including direct involvement in clinical interface configuration/maintenance/support.
• Exposure to clinical healthcare environment.

Preferred Work Experience:
• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
• Availability to provide night/weekend support via on-call on a rotating basis.
• Experience with InterSystems based systems, databases, and code such as Cache/Iris
Knowledge:
• General knowledge and understanding of operating systems, databases, application development tools, and data processing.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and Excel a plus.
• Experience with multiple instrument communication standards such as ASTM/HL7
• Experience with other common data formats such as JSON and XML and SQL preferred.
• Experience with Web Services preferred.
• Experience interfacing instruments with Antrim based laboratory information systems is highly preferred.
• Ability to read/write basic commands in Cache/Iris based systems.
• Understanding of Cache/Iris based database systems and their global/class structures.
• Experience interfacing instruments via middleware with Epic based information systems is a plus.
• Familiarity with support/maintenance of intermediary devices used in instrument communication preferred (i.e., terminal servers, file transfer systems)