Biomedical Data Standards Programmer – UMLS​/VSAC​/FHIR

Hope you are doing well. We have an open position for a Biomedical Data Standards Programmer UMLS/VSAC/FHIR. Pl. go through the below description and let me know your interest.

Bethesda, MD (On-site & remote)

Eligible to clear background checks and Public Trust Clearance

Any (US Citizen, Green Card, H1B)

NIH(Federal)

• Minimum 5 years of hands‑on experience 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 retrieving and assembling data from multiple sources/formats, creating derived datasets, and implementing data specifications to create OCCS datasets to be used in research
• Basic understanding of python, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, XML/JSON, or other languages/tools
• Experience with data modeling, metadata management, and data profiling
• Knowledge of data warehousing and business intelligence concepts
• Demonstrated experience in providing dCQMs and eCQMs‑related support

• Assist 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 Rx Norm
• Develop and Implement enterprise‑wide data standards at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) OCCS
• Develop and implement a comprehensive data governance framework for the 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

Bachelor s or master's degree in computer science, Data Science, or Biomedical Informatics

• AWS Certified Developer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)