Lead Interface Engineer

Job Posting

Title:

Lead Interface Engineer-Hiring Department:

Dell Medical School-Position Open To:

All Applicants-Weekly Scheduled

Hours:

40-FLSA Status:

Exempt from FLSA-Earliest

Start Date:

Immediately-Position Duration:

Expected to Continue
- Location:

AUSTIN, TX-Job Details:

General Notes The Lead Interface Engineer serves as the senior technical and operational lead for enterprise healthcare interoperability and a key execution partner to the Director, Biomedical Systems & Enterprise Interoperability, translating Enterprise Decision Intelligence Architecture (EDIA) strategy and governance into executable technical plans, standards, and solutions. The role leads the design, implementation, support, and continuous improvement of integrations across Epic, clinical, operational, device, data, and third-party systems;

identifies cross-platform dependencies and operational impacts; coordinates complex technical work; mentors engineers; and drives issues to resolution. Operating beyond the scope of an individual interface developer, the position provides technical leadership, independent judgment, and cross-functional influence to advance enterprise interoperability and support the evolving technology needs of Dell Med and the developing medical complex.

Responsibilities Enterprise Decision Intelligence Architecture (EDIA) Execution & Technical Leadership Serves as the Director’s primary technical execution partner for EDIA development and implementation.

Translates EDIA strategy, governance, architecture, and priorities into actionable roadmaps, standards, work streams, and deliverables.

Coordinates EDIA execution across interoperability, Epic, data and analytics, digital, infrastructure, security, Biomedical Systems, Clinical Third-Party Applications, and vendors.

Develops and maintains integration views, dependency maps, data flows, interface inventories, technical standards, and decision records.

Identifies architectural gaps, technical debt, operational risks, integration constraints, and opportunities to improve interoperability and enterprise data flow.

Brings operational awareness to architectural decisions by evaluating patient safety, security, supportability, monitoring, downtime, testing, lifecycle, vendor, and resource impacts.

Drives EDIA initiatives from concept through implementation and measurable outcomes.

Provides concise technical assessments, estimates, recommendations, risks, dependencies, and escalation needs to support governance and executive decisions.

Represents Enterprise Interoperability in technical working sessions and cross-functional forums, escalating strategic or governance decisions as appropriate.

Develops competency in data governance and trust disciplines, including ownership, stewardship, lineage, data quality, access, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible data use.

Partners with Cybersecurity, Privacy, Compliance, Internal Audit, Enterprise Architecture, and other governance functions to translate requirements into practical interoperability controls.

Builds leadership, facilitation, governance, and cross-functional decision-making capabilities while maintaining accountability for EDIA technical execution.

Interface Architecture, Development & Engineering Leads the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of complex Epic, HL7, API, file-based, and other healthcare interoperability solutions.

Translates clinical, operational, business, and technical requirements into scalable interface designs and specifications.

Leads peer review of interface designs, mappings, routing, transformations, error handling, monitoring, and deployment approaches.

Establishes engineering standards for development, testing, documentation, configuration management, deployment, and production support.

Troubleshoots complex interface and data-flow issues across Epic, integration platforms, networks, third-party applications, and vendor systems.

Develops and promotes reusable integration patterns that reduce unnecessary complexity and align with enterprise architecture and governance standards.

Technical Delivery Leadership & Cross-Team Coordination Provides day-to-day technical leadership for enterprise interoperability projects and integration work streams.

Translates complex initiatives into sequenced work packages, dependencies, and coordinated engineering activities.

Leads technical discovery, design, readiness, troubleshooting, and go-live activities.

Coordinates with Epic, Infrastructure, Information Security,…