Deputy Health Informatics and Interoperability Lead Senior Manager

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You Are:
As a Deputy Health Informatics and Interoperability Lead Senior Manager at AFS, you will serve in a versatile role, solving diverse problems for senior leaders at Federal Health agencies, serving as a subject matter expert across projects, as well as interfacing with our ecosystem of partnerships across academia, health technology vendors, data vendors, EHR vendors, and health data standards organizations.

The Work:

• Support public health surveillance and research programs, including designing, developing, and implementing electronic clinical and lab data pipelines and systems to conduct surveillance efforts with public health and research agencies, and design and implement interoperable systems for healthcare data processing to give access to standardized data to systems and people.
• Collaborate with public health and research agencies (at the federal or state/local level) and/or public health labs, work with health data standards (HL7 v2, CDA, FHIR), case and laboratory reporting, and/or epidemiological analytics. Architect complex clinical and lab data workflows in Azure cloud pipelines (Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs), or equivalents in AWS and/or GCP. 
• Map data to and between common standards like HL7 v2, CDA, FHIR, OMOP. Harmonize data using standard terminologies like SNOMED, ICD, RxNORM, NDC, LOINC, among others.
• Lead development of interoperability products and offerings, and lead thought leadership activities to publicize our offerings and methodologies at conferences, in whitepapers, and peer-reviewed research
• Lead development of curriculum for trainings on health informatics and interoperability for practitioners
• Manage relationships with ecosystem partners including technology partners, real-world data partners, and academic partners.
• Be a trusted advisor to senior level federal health clients through meaningful client conversations, employing creative problem solving, and leading high-impact efforts
• Deepen your specific area of expertise on an ongoing basis; understand what is trending in the industry and be able to speak to it with knowledge and confidence with your clients and team

A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following attributes:

• Possesses strong executive presence and credibility; be a trusted advisor
• Keen strategy and quality delivery focus – ranging from how ideas can disrupt/propel our client’s business to setting strategic direction, expectations with clients and supervisors to establish near term goals for area of responsibility
• A magnet for talent with keen sense for high performing individuals
• Knowledgeable about federal health clients and grant/cooperative agreement programs
• An ability to proactively generate and build new client relationships and work to strengthen existing relationships at target clients
• Stand up and lead resulting projects with strong delivery skills and client interaction
• Proven ability to develop trusted relationships at all levels
• Professional agility to easily deal with rapidly changing dynamics

Here's What You Need:

• Bachelors degree in a quantitative field (i.e.: Information Systems, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Biostatistics, or equivalent) required
• 8+ years of relevant experience, which may include:
  • Supporting public health surveillance programs, or clinical research programs across the activities of: designing, developing, and implementing electronic clinical and lab data pipelines and systems to conduct surveillance or clinical research efforts with federal public health or research agencies
• Experience in public health informatics with public health agencies (at the federal or state/local level) and/or public health labs, including but not limited to familiarity with health data standards (HL7 v2, CDA, FHIR, OMOP), case and laboratory reporting, and/or epidemiological analytics
• Experience harmonizing clinical data using standard terminologies like SNOM