Clinical Terminologist

TL;DR

Lead Clinical Terminologist (Healthcare Standards): Providing authoritative leadership in developing, implementing, and maintaining medical terminologies like SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, and FHIR for VA and DoD systems with an accent on enterprise-wide strategy, semantic infrastructure, and interoperability. Focus on curating value sets, ontologies, mapping clinical data, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while advising on large-scale health IT initiatives.

Location: Full-time remote (USA; U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain federal security clearance required)

Salary: $175,000 - $200,000 a year

Company

hirify.global delivers innovative solutions for financial management, healthcare, and government industries with a client-first approach and rapid implementation of pragmatic solutions.

What you will do

• Lead enterprise terminology activities, supervise resources, and ensure quality adherence to best practices and standards.
• Develop, review, and verify clinical terminology specifications for VA, DoD, and partners; recommend standards like SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, FHIR.
• Direct mappings, terminology modeling, value sets, and information models across clinical domains.
• Architect and manage semantic infrastructure, ontologies, and terminology tooling for scalable clinical data assets.
• Consult VHA programs, EHR Modernization, and partners on requirements, planning, and evaluations.
• Analyze terminologies, propose solutions, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in nursing, health informatics, pharmacy, medicine, or equivalent (8 years relevant experience may substitute).
• Minimum 10 years experience in clinical terminology development, mapping, and implementation.
• In-depth experience with SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, FHIR mapping and modeling.
• Expertise in designing, building, updating value sets, ontologies, and terminology tooling.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain federal security clearance (Public Trust or higher).
• Strong knowledge of policies, regulations for clinical standards; experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Outstanding communication and ability to articulate complex terminology issues.

Nice to have

• Doctorate (PhD, MD, PharmD) in clinical or informatics field.
• Clinical licensure as physician, nurse, pharmacist, or allied health professional.
• National/international recognition in clinical terminology standards.
• Experience with VA, DoD, ONC federal initiatives.
• Publications, teaching, or standards committee involvement.
• Knowledge of interoperability standards like 21st Century Cures Act and VHA policies.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision plans; optional FSA.
• Safe Harbor 401(k) with 100% vested employer contributions from day 1.
• Paid time off, 11 paid holidays, paid parental leave.
• No cost group term life/AD&D; optional supplemental coverage, pet insurance.
• Monthly phone and internet stipend; tuition and training reimbursement.
• Supportive work/life balance.