FHIR Artefacts Developer

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Role highlights

• Create, standardise and maintain national and international FHIR standards to support exchange of digital health information.
• Two-year full-time opportunities with remote/hybrid working options from any major cities in Australia.
• Join CSIRO’s AEHRC! A truly collaborative, flexible and inclusive workplace that make improvements to healthcare.

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge. Visit CSIRO.au for more information.

About the Australia e-Health Research Centre 

The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) is CSIRO’s national digital health research program, enabling the digital transformation of healthcare to improve services and clinical treatment for Australians and beyond. We have over 100 scientists and engineers across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.  Visit Australian e-Health Research Centre – Enabling the digital transformation of healthcare for Australians for more information.

The opportunity 

We are actively seeking FHIR Artifacts Developer to join the FHIR Accelerator team in AEHRC, working closely with the AEHRC team, along with other collaborators and stakeholders in creating, developing, managing and supporting open data exchange standards and capabilities to meet the current and future needs for Australia’s health system.

If you have the expertise in creating, standardising and maintaining national and international FHIR standards, to facilitate the safe and accurate exchange of digital health information across the health sector, then do not hesitate to apply. This role will be accountable for the development and adaptation of an AU Core FHIR standard and associated materials through a community-led process. This role will also support other HL7 AU standards, data standards, clinical terminology, and project tasks as needed.

This opportunity comes with a high degree of flexibility and hybrid working arrangements from home and office, supporting interstate collaboration between diversely distributed teams.

Your high-level duties will include: 

• Applying understanding of FHIR, interoperability, systems integration, AU Health and healthcare systems, and open-source standards to develop open data exchange standards for Australia.
• Translating requirements from different stakeholders into data exchange standards, maintaining the integrity of a national standard approach while addressing the agreed needs of stakeholders.
• Contributing to the design and development of FHIR terminology code systems, value sets, and concept maps.
• Undertaking mapping between data sets and data exchange standards.
• Technically producing and maintaining FHIR conformance resources including definition of extensions and profiles as needed.
• Technically produce, publish, release, and maintain FHIR implementation guides.
• Developing and maintaining support documentation and guidance including examples to clearly communicate complex technical material to our collaborators and customers.
• Understanding and participating in national and international discussions regarding direction in digital health standards development and implementation.   

Role particulars

Location:  Open to any of these major cities in AU - Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra.

Salary: AU$135K – AU$158K per annum (pro-rata for part-time) plus up to 15.4% superannuation/ share combined salary too

Tenure & work schedule: 2 year specified term; full-time 

Reference: 101924

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in IT. 
• Demonstrated experience with the design and development of FHIR conformance resources and FHIR implementation guides.
• Detailed understanding of FHIR profiling principles, artefacts, their use cases, and good design practices.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including knowledge of logical modelling and ontologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of the healthcare IT domain, particularly in systems interoperability and integration.
• Experience implementing and contributing to technical standards and specifications.
• Experience working as an effective communicator at the intersection of business and technical concerns.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines as well as work cooperatively with others in a high-functioning team to meet team objectives.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining strong professional and collaborative working relationships.

Desirable

• Experience in contributing to HL7 International, HL7 Australia, or other HL7 affiliate FHIR implementation guides.
• Experience with HL7 International or affiliate FHIR Community Process.
• Familiarity with terminology and other standards used in the Australian health industry e.g., SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, OAuth, OpenID Connect.
• Experience working with agile software development practices.

For full details about this role, please review the Position Description. 

Not sure if you meet all the criteria?

While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this. Don’t let the list discourage you. If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in the Position Description. 

Setting You Up for Success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. Please contact Talent Consultant and let us know how we can support you.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO. 

Inclusion and belonging

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise that true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

Eligibility 

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens and Australian Permanent Residents only. Appointment to this role is subject to the provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Child safety 

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy. 

How to apply 

Please apply online, and provide a CV and a detailed cover letter (maximum 2 pages), responding to each of the selection criteria in detail, that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role. Please attach your selection criteria responses to your cover letter as one document. 

Applications close 

28 November 2025, 11:00 pm AEDT

We strongly encourage you to apply early, as we will review applications as they come in. CSIRO reserves the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date, if required.