[Hiring] IT Integration Engineer Principal @CommonSpirit Health

Role Description

As an IT Integration Engineer Principal, you will serve as a key technical leader responsible for architecting and enhancing enterprise-level applications that directly support clinical and revenue cycle management workflows. You will act as a primary subject matter expert, overseeing the design, implementation, and quality assurance of complex integration solutions. By aligning technical strategies with organizational goals, you will ensure that our EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) ecosystems are robust, scalable, and optimized to meet the evolving needs of our end-users and healthcare business stakeholders.

• Provide high-level technical guidance and oversight to software engineering teams.
• Act as the ultimate escalation point for complex troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Balance multiple enterprise-scale projects simultaneously, ensuring adherence to strict timelines and budget constraints.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and author enterprise policies and guidelines.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging healthcare technologies to drive continuous improvement across integrated platforms.
• Possess deep technical expertise in software design and EAI frameworks.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent.
• Lead large-scale integration programs and manage enterprise-level incidents.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation within the integration team.

• Strategic API Governance: Act as a gatekeeper, ensuring all APIs adhere to "Design-First" principles (OpenAPI/Swagger) before moving to production.
• API Management: Expertise in API management, specifically Apigee, enforcing enterprise-wide standards through automated policies, shared flows, and consistent proxy architecture.
• Architectural Strategy & Innovation: Experience in implementing centralized API catalogs and managing the full API lifecycle to ensure discoverability, reuse, and high-quality documentation across the organization.
• Advanced Security & Compliance: Ability to translate complex healthcare compliance (HIPAA/FHIR) into scalable security guardrails, implementing OAuth2, mTLS, and threat protection directly at the Apigee proxy layer.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide high-level mentorship to engineering teams, fostering professional growth while ensuring deep subject matter expertise across integrated platforms.
• Operational Excellence & Troubleshooting: Serve as the primary escalation point for enterprise-level incidents, performing root-cause analysis and managing centralized API catalogs to ensure high-quality documentation and system stability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years relevant experience.
• Bachelors or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Technology, Medical, or Business discipline.
• Broad experience with server, infrastructure architecture and application design.
• Leading architectural design of large enterprise initiatives.
• A record of partnering with Clinical and/or Revenue Cycle Management Senior leadership.

Requirements

• Experience working with HL7, HIPAA transactions sets, and EDI engines is highly preferred.