Enterprise Imaging Platform Engineer

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary application and product expert for PACS, VNA, and Enterprise Imaging platforms owning configuration, administration, version upgrade planning, coexistence strategies, and migration execution (PACS-to-PACS and PACS-to-VNA).
• Provide imaging deployment engineering for new facility rollouts including modality connectivity, DICOM configuration, DMWL/MPPS, routing rules, compression, and archive setup.
• Define and evaluate technical approach options, dependencies, and risk considerations for application enhancements and bespoke solutions support OEM/vendor coordination including patch reviews, defect investigation, compatibility testing, and roadmap alignment.
• Design and build ETL and data movement jobs for reporting, archival, and system-to-system data flows lead database optimization projects and support data migration planning and execution, including imaging archive migrations and coexistence scenarios.
• Provide platform engineering support covering server/OS configuration, storage planning, certificate management, application services, and full environment readiness for deployment windows.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and observability solutions health checks, alerting, and dashboards across application platforms, databases, and imaging infrastructure.
• Own the test strategy and test planning for all AD work items configure and maintain test environments and ensure test data readiness.
• Execute unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing for application enhancements, new interfaces (HL7/FHIR/DICOM/API), vendor patches, and version upgrades.
• Build and maintain test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, or similar) to accelerate regression cycles, upgrade verification, and deployment validation.
• Perform performance testing (load, stress, scalability) for application and integration changes support clinical workflow validation and UAT with clinical stakeholders.
• Support post-deployment validation and hypercare verification produce test sign-off documentation and track quality metrics (defects, rework, coverage KPIs).
• Guide security and compliance enhancements at both the application and database/platform layers (audit trails, access controls, encryption) write data-fix scripts and support root-cause analysis.
• Produce architecture, design, configuration, as-built, and runbook documentation lead knowledge transfer to operations and support teams.

Required Qualifications

• 8 to 12+ years in healthcare imaging IT with expert-level PACS/VNA administration and configuration experience across major platforms (e.g., Change Healthcare/Optum, GE, Philips, Fuji, Sectra, Agfa, Merge).
• Deep DICOM expertise (associations, SOP classes, DMWL, routing, compression) and strong working knowledge of HL7 imaging message flows.
• Hands-on experience with imaging migrations, multi-version upgrades, and multi-site deployments in US health systems.
• 6 to 8+ years in database engineering and administration (SQL Server and/or Oracle) including performance tuning at scale, ETL development (SSIS or equivalent), and complex stored procedures.
• Production-level platform engineering experience on Windows Server environments (IIS, application services, certificate management).
• 4 to 6+ years in software QA with hands-on test automation experience (Selenium, Playwright, or similar) and a track record of building sustainable regression frameworks.
• Solid SQL skills for backend data validation familiarity with defect management tools and agile/ITIL delivery practices.
• Experience operating in managed services or hypercare support models with SLA accountability.

Preferred Qualifications

• CIIP certification exposure to cloud-hosted imaging (Azure/AWS), AI-enabled imaging workflows, and EHR image enablement.
• Cardiology imaging (CVIS) experience in addition to Radiology PACS.
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Python) for platform automation and data tasks.
• Performance testing tool experience (JMeter, LoadRunner) and CI/CD pipeline test integration.
• HIPAA-compliant data handling experience and familiarity with US healthcare compliance frameworks.