Palladium

Interoperability/Integration Specialist, Ethiopia - Data.FI

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

Project Background:

Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded Translating Data for Implementation (Data.FI) award. Data.FI is a $180 million project which serves as USAID’s primary mechanism for data, technology, and health information systems to support HIV activities across strategic PEPFAR countries. Data.FI is part of a suite of large-scale global HIV programs that USAID has awarded and represents the next generation of HIV/AIDS programs. Data.FI plays a key role in USAID’s goals of helping partner countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance and transitioning local organizations to prime recipients of USG funding.

The overall goal of the Data.FI project is to improve global, regional, and national in-depth analyses of HIV epidemiologic and program data that can be directly applied to expedite the achievement of PEPFAR targets to attain and sustain control of the HIV epidemic. The focus also includes directly supporting host country governments and implementing partners to further enhance existing health information system platforms to inform management responses to well-defined gaps in HIV/AIDS programming. In order to ensure rapid access to high quality data, Data.FI works towards: accelerating data utilization to rapidly course correct and take to scale cost-effective and impactful activities, models and approaches required to attain and maintain HIV epidemic control; scaling and optimizing in-country health information system capabilities to collect, exchange, adapt, govern, and visualize information in order to track the attainment and maintenance of HIV epidemic control; and supporting the transition of prime funding and implementation to capable local partners.

Position Summary:

The Interoperability/Integration Specialist is central to enabling seamless data exchange between Ethiopia’s digital health platforms. This position supports the implementation of national interoperability standards, particularly HL7 FHIR and OpenHIE components, to facilitate efficient, secure, and accurate health information sharing. The specialist collaborates with system owners, MoH counterparts, and technical teams to operationalize use cases and workflows that promote continuity of care and data-driven decision-making.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain standards-based integration solutions using FHIR, HL7 v2/v3, and OpenHIE components.
• Facilitate real-time and batch data exchange between EMRs, LMIS, eCHIS, DHIS2, and other systems.
• Implement and manage health information mediators (e.g., OpenHIM), API gateways, and service registries.
• Work with MoH and stakeholders to define data exchange workflows, conformance testing protocols, and governance procedures.
• Manage data mapping, validation, and transformation across heterogeneous systems.
• Provide capacity building, mentorship, and documentation for national teams on interoperability frameworks.
• Ensure integration solutions align with health sector priorities, cybersecurity principles, and sustainability goals.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Health Informatics, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in system integration and interoperability.
• Hands-on experience with FHIR, HL7, OpenHIE, OpenHIM, and health information exchange standards.
• Familiarity with Ethiopian digital health landscape and stakeholder ecosystem.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

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