Clinical Informaticist

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are

Clinical Architecture is at the forefront of healthcare IT innovation. Our team is an ambitious group of diverse leaders who balance creativity and expertise to solve tough problems that make a difference. Our environment is positive, casual, and comprised of people dedicated to delivering world-class solutions and exceptional customer service. Come join our team for happier workdays.

About The Position

Clinical Architecture is seeking a Clinical Informaticist to join our team in the Indianapolis, IN area. As part of a multidisciplinary Professional Services team, the Clinical Informaticist will bridge clinical practice and information technology by applying healthcare, terminology, interoperability, product, and data expertise to help customers solve complex health information challenges. This role contributes to project design, leads defined project components, and demonstrates emerging expertise across Symedical® and Pivot® to support client initiatives and improve patient care.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate deeper understanding of system configuration, interdependencies between modules, and the impact of changes on clinical workflows; independently apply terminology standards to complex concepts; analyze data to develop actionable recommendations; and communicate effectively with clinical, technical, client, and leadership stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to understand their use case and requirements.
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding of Symedical® and Pivot® functionality within assigned domains, including system configuration, module interdependencies, limitations, workarounds, and the impact of product decisions on clinical operations.
• Research and recommend solutions and/or modeling approaches.
• Independently perform complex terminology mapping, normalization, and governance activities across standards such as LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, ICD, and CPT, including identification of gaps and data quality issues.
• Compare and critique available standards-based approaches to interoperability problems.
• Lead small to medium-sized informatics projects or significant workstreams within larger, complex projects, including planning, execution, delivery, risk communication, and stakeholder expectation management.
• Design and contribute to solutions for seamless data exchange between electronic health records, clinical applications, and client systems using appropriate interoperability standards, including HL7, FHIR, and related data exchange approaches.
• Develop content models to represent clinical information.
• Collaborate with Clinical Architecture's Medical and Informatics teams to assure accuracy of clinical information in technology platforms and materials.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance client value, lead small client-facing discussions, contribute to solution design presentations, and ensure high-quality deliverables aligned with client objectives.
• Adapt communication style for clinical, technical, non-technical, client, and leadership audiences; facilitate effective meetings or workshops; build stakeholder relationships; and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Analyze complex data sets using tools such as SQL, Excel, or business intelligence tools to identify trends, root causes, and actionable clinical or operational insights.
• Mentor junior informaticists on project tasks, terminology practices, data analysis, consulting behaviors, and client engagement expectations within assigned workstreams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Nursing (BSN), Pharmacy (BPharm, MPharm, PharmD), Medical Laboratory Science or another clinical discipline is required.
• 5+ years of recent experience in a clinical informatics role, relevant healthcare IT environment, professional services setting, or biomedical enterprise is preferred; equivalent demonstrated responsibilities may be considered.
• Strong working knowledge of healthcare data management, clinical informatics, standardized terminologies, semantic interoperability, and data analysis required.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to learn new systems quickly; demonstrated ability to understand system integrations, data flows, and database structures.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 v2, FHIR) and their application in laboratory data exchange required.
• Hands-on experience writing moderately complex SQL queries for data extraction, validation, analysis, and reporting is preferred.

Why Clinical Architecture?
We offer:

• Opportunities for learning, development, and growth.
• Experiences that connect you with colleagues.
• A laid-back work environment with thoughtful amenities.
• Paid Volunteer Time, Paid Holidays & PTO, including our own winter break week for full-time team members.
• Sabbatical opportunities for tenured team members.
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, and ancillary insurance options for eligible employees.
• Maternity and Parental leave benefits.
• Employer paid Short-term Disability & Long-term Disability.
• Health and Wellness incentives.
• 401k Matching.
• Better workdays.

Clinical Architecture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other protected characteristic.