Forward Deployed Engineer
Wolters Kluwer2 months ago
Base Salary
$215k - $384k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with customer executives, clinical leaders, informaticists, pharmacists, IT/data teams, and end users to understand workflows, constraints, adoption barriers, and desired outcomes.
- Translate ambiguous customer needs into hypotheses, use cases, success metrics, acceptance criteria, prototypes, and implementation options.
- Design, code, integrate, test, and deploy prototypes and product extensions using WK Health assets, APIs, data, AI capabilities, and platform services.
- Apply healthcare integration patterns including HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, secure APIs, and cloud-native approaches.
- Use automated testing, observability, secure SDLC practices, and AI-assisted or agentic development with human accountability.
- Convert field-built solutions into reusable APIs, connectors, reference architectures, templates, evaluation harnesses, playbooks, and product backlog input.
- Build AI-enabled workflows with trusted content, human oversight, auditability, and post-deployment monitoring.
- Partner with clinical, editorial, security, privacy, legal, and compliance teams on responsible AI, healthcare safety, and data governance.
- Lead cross-functional virtual squads or technical workstreams as needed and measure customer outcomes, adoption, time-to-value, reuse, reliability, and engineering quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, biomedical informatics, data science, health informatics, engineering, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, customer-facing engineering, solution architecture, technical product management, or related product technology roles.
- Production-quality software experience in enterprise and/or regulated environments.
- Healthcare technology experience involving clinical workflows, EHR, payer or pharmacy systems, healthcare data platforms, or digital health.
- Experience with healthcare standards and systems such as HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, RxNorm, SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CPT, NDC, Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, MEDITECH, Athenahealth, or payer platforms.
- Experience with AI/GenAI, LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, AI evaluation, prompt/retrieval testing, or responsible AI governance.
- Ability to turn customer or stakeholder problems into requirements, prototypes, working software, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong programming ability in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, or comparable languages; mobile development is a plus.
- Ability to collaborate across product, technology, commercial, clinical, security, customer, privacy, legal, and compliance teams.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k), FSA/HSA, and commuter benefits.
- Tuition assistance plan.
- Vacation and sick time.
- Paid parental leave.
- The role is eligible for a bonus in addition to base salary.
- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office for interviews, including in-person interviews.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer builds subscription software, data, and workflow solutions for professionals in healthcare, tax and accounting, legal and regulatory, finance and compliance, and ESG. Its portfolio spans SaaS applications and expert content that support compliance, decision-making, and operational processes. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, it is publicly traded on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and reported 2025 annual revenue of €6.1 billion.