Integration Specialist

Mediclinic is an international private healthcare services group, founded in South Africa in 1983, with divisions in Switzerland, Southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia) and the United Arab Emirates. The Group is focused on providing specialist-orientated, multidisciplinary services across the continuum of care in such a way that the Group will be regarded as the most respected and trusted provider of healthcare services by patients, medical practitioners, funders and regulators of healthcare in each of its markets.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

The Integration Specialist will assist with the design, architecture, standards and support of integration solutions to support Mediclinic’s systemsKEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS

• Set conformance standards for integration messaging – e.g HL7, FHIR for Mediclinic and Subsidiaries
• Assist with the establishment of integration standards, processes and architecture recommendations for Mediclinic and Subsidiaries
• Ensure optimal / flexible integration design through business, system, and technical analysis
• Participate in the requirement analysis and decomposition, design, internal testing and documentation of the integrations (existing and new)
• Work closely with System architects and Integration Programmers and maintain key relations within the ICT environment
• Keep a register of web services/APIs and integration points per party with specific detail
• Assist in the operational management of integration solutionsREQUIRED EDUCATION

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION

* Degree or formal certification in ICT/Computer Science

DESIRED EDUCATION

* NoneREQUIRED EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

* 3-5 years’ experience as Integration Specialist/ Analyst

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• NoneREQUIRED JOB SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
• API Management advantageous
• Coding Background
• Data structures and data transfer mechanisms
• Experience in creating, editing and reading of Schema definitions (XML, JSON)
• HL7 or FHIR knowledge
• Intersystems IRIS for Health knowledge
• SQL skills for querying
• Understand the function design of services and API’s to meet information requirements including field in/output requirements
• Understanding of integration and messaging architecture
• Understanding of integration protocols such as RESTful API, Web service, Queuing