Job Title: RQ00300 Intermediate Solutions Designer
Location: Ontario Health
Background Information:
Ontario Healths (OH) electronic health record (EHR) Modernization Program aims to transition from onpremise solutions to a cloud platform to enhance efficiency and seamless integration of various data contributors. OH will engage a Cloud solutions partner to operate the EHR platform and provide innovative and robust solutions that will improve performance cost efficiency and security while ensuring smooth and efficient functioning of cloudbased applications data and assets.
Role Overview:
Ontario Health is seeking an Intermediate Solutions Designer to support the assessment design and execution of the EHR Platform. The role involves validating architecture recommending best practices optimizing code ensuring interoperability and maintaining compliance with healthcare standards.
Responsibilities:
- Validate the architecture and design of the EHR platform to ensure scalability reliability and security in a cloud environment.
- Recommend and implement best practices for cloudnative development.
- Review code to ensure adherence to industry best practices and organizational standards.
- Optimize code for maintainability efficiency and performance.
- Ensure effective implementation of EHR Platform and fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) frameworks to support interoperability and data exchange.
- Identify areas for improvement in FHIR APIs and related workflows.
- Propose and implement cloudnative solutions leveraging appropriate cloud services.
- Guide the adoption of modern technologies like containerization orchestration and serverless computing.
- Ensure adherence to healthcare compliance standards (e.g. PHIPA) and implement robust security measures.
- Contribute to the planning and execution of future platform enhancements or migrations.
- Ensure minimal downtime and maintain data integrity during transitions.
- Provide strategies for improving platform performance including database tuning caching and load balancing.
- Work closely with vendors and internal teams to align development with business goals.
- Document findings recommendations and technical guidance.
MustHaves and Required Skills:
- 10 years experience in the creation of technical project and user documentation including procedures at the specified experience level with electronic healthrelated projects ideally with experience deploying clinical software systems.
- Subject matter expertise in HL7 V2 and FHIR XML messaging principles techniques and technologies.
- Advanced Knowledge in Smile CDR Product and has SmileCDR Product Implementation Experience.
- Advanced Cloud certifications in Cloud Practices (Azure/AWS) are an asset.
- Advanced knowledge pertaining to design implementation operation and support of products and services operating in multiple cloud environments.
- Broad knowledge of IaaS and PaaS components leveraged to implement products and services operating in one cloud provider. Expert knowledge in multiple areas of focus.
- Advanced knowledge of migration approaches for moving legacy products and services from onpremises datacenter deployments to the cloud.
- Knowledge of coding practices as it relates to Infrastructure as Code building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and using source control tools.
- Knowledge of team and industry best practices as it relates to deployment operations and support of products and services in the cloud provider.
- Advanced knowledge of security best practices as it relates to the cloud in general as well as deployment operations and support of products and services in the cloud provider.
- Knowledge of other IT systems and/or programs across OH and points of interaction or integration.
- Experience with a wide range of technical writing methods tools and techniques and knowledge of industry standards and best practices.
- Experience working in the public sector preferably in a healthcare setting.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written collaborative and strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Time Management with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple project deliverables.
- Assess define implement and monitor documentation management practices as required and appropriate for the project in conjunction with applicable Ontario Government standards including template design and maintenance; version and change control; naming conventions; and official repository(ies).
- Skilled at using standard technical writing tools such as Microsoft Office and/or Adobe Technical Communication Suite.
Desired Skills:
- Strong problemsolving and analytical skills to identify gaps and areas for improvement; own the build release and configuration management of applications; ensure high availability performance scalability and security of applications.
- Communication skills both oral and written to communicate clearly within the team product groups and across OH on a range of cloudrelated topics; mentor staff to strengthen cloud support and quality services; collaborate with product teams.
- Ability to code to automate systemlevel deployment using tools such as Terraform AWS Cloud Formation Bicep.
- Ability to design and implement continuous code and infrastructure delivery using continuous integration/continuous deployment CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps AWS Code pipelines etc.
- Ability to deploy automate and manage cloud (Azure/AWS) based systems.
- Ability to maintain indepth knowledge of cloud technologies and tools for multiple providers assist IT leadership in developing a roadmap for cloud integration and strategies and ability to maintain expert knowledge in multiple areas of focus.
- Ability to work closely with members of the product team and other teams to design and integrate cloud services enabling secure operations in the cloud environment.
- Ability to collaborate with the product team to deliver solutions using modern DevSecOps tools and best practices and take ownership of the build release and configuration management of applications.
- Ability to identify gaps in as well as create and maintain uptodate operational documentation.
- Ability to make decisions where results have a major impact across the organization.