Staff Integrations Engineer

About the Role

The Staff Integrations Engineer is a senior technical resource responsible for advancing interoperability initiatives within Abbott Diabetes Care while supporting our mission to improve patient outcomes and become the most connected CGM in the market. This role ensures seamless, secure, and standards-based data exchange between medical devices, clinical systems, and external healthcare platforms while meeting regulatory, safety, and quality requirements. The Staff Interoperability Engineer partners across engineering, product, commercial, and quality teams to influence strategy, architecture decisions, and resolve complex cross-system challenges. The role serves as a subject matter expert in healthcare interoperability standards and plays a critical role in enabling scalable, compliant, and patient-safe connectivity solutions that support both current products and future innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Design scalable, secure, and standards-compliant interoperability solutions
• Develop and enforce architectural best practices for clinical and administrative data exchange
• Facilitate and lead detailed HL7 v2, HL7 CCD/CDA and FHIR interface mapping for use case scenarios

Technical Execution

• Lead the development and deployment of APIs, data pipelines, and integration services for real-time and batch data exchange
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, 21st Century Cures Act, and other healthcare data privacy and security regulations
• Provide hands-on support for complex integration challenges and guide teams through technical decision-making
• Provide operational support for interoperability services, including participation in an on-call rotation to diagnose, resolve, and prevent production integration issues

Collaboration & Enablement

• Partner with EHR vendors, health systems, payers, and third-party developers to ensure seamless data interoperability
• Support internal teams with technical and quality documentation, training, and onboarding for interoperability tools
• Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and data quality across integrations
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance

Critical Success Indicators

• Successfully delivered multiple production grade EHR Interoperability solutions and services designed for scale
• Demonstrated ability to implement healthcare standards-based solutions that integrate effectively into real-world clinical environments
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including software engineering, product, commercial and quality
• Deep understanding of healthcare data standards and frameworks such as HL7 v2/v3, FHIR, DICOM, IHE, etc.
• Practical understanding and effective use of healthcare middleware and integration platforms

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 10+ years of Interoperability Engineering experience
• Proven experience in developing and deploying EHR Interoperability solutions and services at scale
• Demonstrated working knowledge of healthcare standards and frameworks such as HL7 v2, FHIR, IHE profiles, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks
• Demonstrated working knowledge of integration engines and their capabilities (Rhapsody experience heavily preferred)
• Extensive experience securely integrating data using multiple transport and messaging protocols such as MLLP over TCP, HTTPS, SFTP, etc.
• Deep understanding of security concepts such as TLS/mTLS, OAuth, JWT and certificate management
• In depth understanding of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems such as Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athena, etc.
• Ability to understand and author product specifications, architecture, and technical design documentation
• Ability and willingness to train and mentor junior engineers
• Ability to work on multiple work streams concurrently

Preferred Qualifications

• HL7 certified in one or more standards: V2, CDA, FHIR
• Certification with one or more middleware platforms such as Rhapsody, Intersystems, Corepoint, Mirth, etc.
• Experience with patient matching technologies and algorithms
• Experience configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting high volume interfaces across environments
• Deep understanding of clinical codesets and libraries such as SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, etc.
• Experience deploying integration solutions on a global scale
• Ability to research API specs, such as Swagger, to understand and evaluate API availability and data responses for current needs and future growth
• Experience developing regulated medical device software that strictly adheres to design controls and quality management system requirements
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams, countries, and time zones
• Self-motivated to complete tasks timely with competence; driven to self-educate and improve processes
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and prioritization skills with a results-oriented mindset
• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Experience with agile software development methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, and exposure to CI/CD pipelines

Job Details

• Base Pay: N/A
• Job Family: Product Development
• Division: ADC Diabetes Care
• Location: Spain > Barcelona: Av. Diagonal, 601
• Work Shift: Standard
• Travel: Not specified
• Medical Surveillance: Not Applicable
• Significant Work Activities: Not Applicable

About Abbott

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it's next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.

The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life's greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.