Director of Technology & Integrations
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
We are seeking a Director of Technology & Integrations to lead the strategy, execution, and innovation around all external and internal system integrations across our healthcare platform. This senior leader will play a key role in driving the vision, scalability, and roadmap of our integration ecosystem while ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance.
The ideal candidate is both a technical expert and a strong communicator, with experience working directly with enterprise clients, healthcare partners, and internal stakeholders to design and deliver integration solutions that are robust, reusable, and aligned with business goals.Key Responsibilities:Vision & Strategy
- Define and execute the long-term strategy for the integration platform and ecosystem.
- Lead platform modernization efforts including transition to scalable, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
- Build a roadmap that aligns technology capabilities with business goals, customer needs, and regulatory requirements.
- Act as the primary technical leader and trusted advisor in conversations with key customers and integration partners.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions while ensuring clarity and alignment across internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product, compliance, customer success, and delivery teams to manage partner onboarding and go-lives.
- Oversee the design and development of integration services, APIs, and connectors (e.g., HL7, FHIR, EDI, REST, SFTP).
- Ensure solutions are secure, compliant (HIPAA, SOC2), and performant under high-volume, real-world usage.
- Drive decisions around technology stack, tooling, system design patterns, and scalability strategies.
- Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams with clear direction, ownership, and technical excellence.
- Establish best practices for integration development, documentation, observability, and post-deployment monitoring.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Build mechanisms for health monitoring, SLA tracking, logging, and alerting across integration systems.
- Define and track key performance metrics (latency, throughput, uptime) to ensure integration platform reliability.
- Partner with InfoSec and DevOps to ensure end-to-end security and scalability.
- 12+ years of experience in software/integration engineering with at least 4–5 years in a leadership role.
- Deep understanding of healthcare integration standards and protocols (e.g., HL7, FHIR, CCD, X12, SFTP, APIs).
- Experience integrating with EHRs/EMRs (e.g., Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth) and healthcare partner ecosystems.
- Strong architectural foundation in designing scalable, resilient integration platforms.
- Hands-on experience with API management, messaging queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and monitoring tools.
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to interface with executive stakeholders and customers.
- Proven track record of leading complex integration projects from discovery through delivery.
- Familiarity with compliance standards such as HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST is required.
- Experience in HL7/FHIR integration and EMR interoperability.
- Certified or experience with EPIC integrations.
- Experience working in a SaaS healthcare environment.
- Background in both cloud-native and hybrid deployment models.
- Experience in building self-service integration platforms or developer portals.
- Exposure to Mirth, Redox, Rhapsody, or similar healthcare integration engines.