Forward Deployed Engineer
Wolters KluwerBase 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.
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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (EURONEXT: WKL) is a global leader in information, software solutions and services for professionals in healthcare; tax and accounting; financial and corporate compliance; legal and regulatory; corporate performance and ESG. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with technology and services. Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 21,100 people worldwide. Equal Opportunity Employer To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases. Beware of Recruitment Fraud! 🔒 Scammers may pose as Wolters Kluwer, offering fake job opportunities and requesting personal info or payments. Protect yourself: - Apply only via our secure Workday hub on our Careers page. - Our recruiters never ask for banking info or payments. - We don't use public email accounts (e.g., Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail). Report suspected fraud: thirdpartyincident@wolterskluwer.com. If you've made a payment, contact local authorities. Read more here - https://careers.wolterskluwer.com/en/recruitment-fraud-alert