Healthcare IT App Developer

• Must conduct all work from the contiguous United States (lower 48 states) and ensure all data including backups remain within the contiguous United States., * Support ongoing maintenance and monitoring of the AHEDD system for continued reliability and availability to our State of New Hampshire Business Users.
• Debug and fix defects found in the AHEDD software.
• Develop and implement updates and upgrades to the AHEDD software, its web user interface, associated APEX-based reporting tool, and Microsoft Access reporting tool.
• Manage and implement updates to AHEDD database tables as needed.
• Collaborate with State of New Hampshire personnel and other contractors and ensure AHEDD functions reliably and remains available during changes to connected Systems including, but not limited to, the Rhapsody HL7 integration engine, Tomcat web application server, Windows operating system, Oracle database, and VMWare tools.
• Develop ODARs (Oracle Database Action Requests) to request database updates as needed.
• Assist with AHEDD integration with downstream systems including EBI (Enterprise Business Intelligence) and NH-ESSENCE SQL database system.
• Collaborate with State of New Hampshire personnel and other contractors and ensure the AHEDD system is updated to detect and report new ICD-10 codes, conditions of interest, and reportable diseases.
• Collaborate with State of New Hampshire personnel and other contractors to ensure AHEDD supports and functions correctly with new versions of discharge codes and other structured and unstructured data from participating facilities.
• Collaborate with State of New Hampshire personnel and other contractors to develop and perform comprehensive test plans to detect defects, unexpected data input, system performance problems, and potential areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with State of New Hampshire personnel and other contractors to analyze logs and other data to assist in diagnosing and finding root causes of anomalous data and system behaviors.
• Collaborate with State of New Hampshire personnel and other contractors to create, analyze, and test HL7 feeds from facilities as part of their onboarding / re-onboarding processes.
• Maintain detailed documentation, including updating the AHEDD data dictionary document and conceptual, logical and physical data diagrams.
• Adhere to the current SDLC process including the usage of the State of New Hampshire CA Harvest version control management system.
• Determine time estimates and schedule for work and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Provide ongoing status of work to Project Team Lead.
• Ability to work in a team environment, with strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Execution of all responsibilities with little direct supervision of Team Lead.

• 8-10 years of JAVA programming experience.
• 8-10 years of experience Oracle PL/SQL scripting.
• Use, analysis, development and maintenance of Microsoft Access 2016 - based applications.
• Developing and using Oracle APEX reporting tools.
• SQL scripting (MS-SQL).
• Developing applications dependent on Tomcat Apache application server.

Preferred skills include:

• Interpreting, reviewing, and analyzing HL7 v2.X messages including structure, interpretation, and violations of implementation guides and other standards.
• Experience using Quest TOAD for Oracle.
• Experience using the CA Harvest version control management system.
• Experience analyzing, planning, and writing ODARs (Oracle Database Action Request) for DBA team.
• Experience using Filebeat, Elastic / Logstash, Kibana log monitoring solutions.
• Experience with MS Windows Servers and RedHat Linux servers in a virtualized (VMWare) environment.
• Experience with Rhapsody integration engine, including recognizing comm point errors and other indications of issues affecting downstream applications.