JOB Summary:

An experienced Senior Technical & Business Consultant to support a strategic Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiative within the NPHIES ecosystem in Riyadh. The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of healthcare interoperability, FHIR/HL7, NPHIES, solution architecture, business analysis, and payer-provider domain expertise. This is a client-facing consulting role requiring the ability to bridge business requirements, technical architecture, healthcare workflows, and implementation teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Healthcare Interoperability & NPHIES:

- Provide SME-level expertise on FHIR, HL7 and healthcare interoperability.

- Support integration and compliance with NPHIES requirements and standards.

- Assess healthcare data exchange requirements across HIS, HIE, payer and provider systems.

- Review new NPHIES releases and validate business and technical requirements.

2. Solution Architecture & Integration:

- Design and review FHIR/API-based integration architectures.

- Evaluate data structures, interfaces, APIs and integration patterns.

- Support integration across HIS, HIE, payer, provider and enterprise platforms.

- Work with development and architecture teams on scalable healthcare solutions.

3. Business & Functional Consulting:

- Gather, analyse and validate business requirements.

- Conduct gap analysis and translate business needs into technical solutions.

- Review healthcare workflows, functional specifications and solution designs.

- Support testing, validation and release readiness.

4. Revenue Cycle & Payor Domain:

- Provide functional expertise across Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and payer-provider workflows.

- Analyse healthcare financial processes and identify opportunities for optimization.

- Support digital transformation initiatives involving payors, claims and financial healthcare services.

5. Client & Stakeholder Management:

- Act as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders.

- Conduct workshops, solution reviews and knowledge-transfer sessions.

- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, QA, Architects and Delivery teams.

- Prepare functional, technical and advisory documentation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related discipline.

- 8 - 10 years of overall IT experience.

- Minimum 5 years of experience in HealthTech / Healthcare IT.

- Strong expertise in FHIR and HL7.

- Proven experience with HIE, HIS, healthcare integration or payer-provider platforms.

- Strong understanding of NPHIES is highly preferred.

- Good knowledge of Revenue Cycle Management and Payor processes.

- Strong technical background in SQL, APIs, integration and enterprise systems.

- Experience with .NET, Java or other backend technologies.

- Understanding of solution architecture, microservices and cloud-based platforms.

- Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and documentation skills.

- Excellent consulting and stakeholder-management capabilities.

- Fluent English and mandatory Arabic language proficiency.