Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.

Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions. 

Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.

IGS is currently recruiting a remote API Integration Engineer to support our work.

Assignment of Work and Travel:

This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access IGS systems and therein use approved IGS provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.

We are seeking a talented API Developer to join our team. In this role, you will build and extends REST API endpoints using InterSystems IRIS ObjectScript, including dispatch routing and JSON request/response handling. 

This is a short-term assignment for a C2C or 1099 consultant. 

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):

• Build and extend REST API endpoints in ObjectScript on InterSystems IRIS
• Write persistent data classes with SQL queries for clinical data types
• Implement business logic for patient data retrieval and clinical record aggregation
• Collaborate  across a multi-system platform: Angular frontend, IRIS backend, and .NET job services

• InterSystems  ObjectScript class definitions, dispatch routing, JSON handling,  SQL statement preparation and execution
• InterSystems IRIS or Cache namespaces, persistent storage, indexing, journaling controls
• REST API design — route mapping, JSON request/response patterns, HTTP      status codes
• SQL queries, stored procedures, result set iteration
• Git/GitHub
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship due to clearance requirements. 

Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:

• Experience with FileMan globals, ICN/EDIPI/Sta3n identifiers, TIU clinical documents
• InterSystems HealthShare or HealthConnect integration experience
• Docker/Podman 
• Healthcare  data standards knowledge (FHIR)
• Python/FastAPI
• PostgreSQL  administration and PL/pgSQL stored procedures
• Experience implementing and operating in DevOps environments

Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:

• Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers. 
• Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers’ matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers’ and end-users’ business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.
• Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done. 
• Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Oriented): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.  

Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Benefits: Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.

Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.