Lead Terminologist
About the role
Synensys is seeking a Lead Terminologist that serves as the senior clinical terminology expert responsible for providing authoritative guidance, leadership, and oversight for terminology development, governance, implementation, and interoperability initiatives. This role supports enterprise health information exchange, data standardization, electronic health record (EHR) modernization, clinical decision support, and health informatics programs across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and external partners, including the Department of Defense (DoD), Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization (OEHRM), Office of Connected Care, and other federal healthcare organizations. The Lead Terminologist provides strategic direction for the development, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of standardized clinical terminologies to support interoperable health information systems, reusable clinical data, regulatory compliance, and improved patient care. This position acts as both a subject matter expert and technical leader, ensuring the quality, consistency, accuracy, and governance of clinical terminology resources, ontologies, information models, and mappings used across enterprise healthcare environments. This posting is intended