Immediate Need - Biomedical Data Standards Programmer – UMLS/VSAC/FHIR

Key Responsibilities

• Aid in programming, mapping, and processing medical vocabularies within the UMLS Metathesaurus and Value Set Authority Center (VSAC).
• Design, build, and maintain automated application pipelines for clinical research data.
• Modernize legacy on-premises infrastructure by migrating workflows to AWS cloud systems.
• Develop services implementing FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for biomedical datasets.
• Collaborate in a team-based, Agile sprint environment to deliver stable, highly secure software.
• Develop and maintain data standards for biomedical applications.
• Support value set curation and enhancement for CMS and NIH healthcare systems.
• Automate ETL processes for terminology updates in tools like VSAC and RxNorm.
• Develop and Implement enterprise-wide data standards at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) OCCS.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of data standards, metadata repositories, and data dictionaries.
• Lead data quality initiatives, including data profiling, cleansing, and validation.
• Design and implement complex data mapping and transformation logic to ensure data consistency across systems.
• Collaborate with data architects, database administrators, and application developers to optimize data models and structures.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the data standards team.
• Utilize data profiling and analysis tools to identify and resolve data quality issues.
• Develop data quality reports and metrics to monitor data health.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends in data management and standards.
• Improve usability and ranking in search engines and provide very good support for mobile technology which is increasingly needed for field data capture.
• Maintain and implement the MEDIT system, which will remove the dependency on Cold-Fusion and move to modern technology, reduce maintenance effort, improve security, and migrate to the cloud platform.
• Migrate pre-release and ETL tools from Oracle to Postgres DB.
• Support the value set authoring and expansion processes in Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
• Import new code system data to support the curation of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) C-CDA (Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture) value sets in VSAC.
• Update Unified Medical Language System content to provide the user community with updated terminology.
• Refresh the UMLS Terminology Services to replace legacy technology with modern technology.
• Provide additional API for value sets retrieval from VSAC repositories and support access to various value sets in a standard manner, with the data format conforming to FHIR specification an HL7 standard.
• Automate and maintain RxNorm - Source Inversion Insertion.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in developing and maintaining code to automate the processing of major medical terminologies such as SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC, and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).
• Experience writing scripts (often in Java, Python, or Perl) to convert, map, and validate raw health data against federal and international interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR).
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks to detect errors, inconsistencies, or version conflicts in large terminology datasets before they are published to the Data Center.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud migration, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with terminology systems like UMLS, RxNorm, VSAC, and eCQMs.
• Experience in data governance, data quality, data management principles.
• Experience in data collection, data flow management, data quality, and data standards from varied group of data sets like Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
• Experience in data modeling, metadata management, and data profiling.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and business intelligence concepts.
• Demonstrated experience in providing dCQMs and eCQMs-related support.