Working Title: Senior Cerner CCL
Position Type: Contract Role
Location: Remote within the United States (Austin, TX )
Key Responsibilities
- Assess, analyze, and document clinical workflows across inpatient, outpatient, and ancillary care settings.
- Translate clinical and operational requirements into technical specifications for reporting, analytics, ETL, and migration solutions.
- Design, develop, optimize, test, and maintain Cerner Command Language (CCL) scripts in Cerner Millennium environments.
- Perform complex data extraction, validation, reconciliation, and transformation activities using Cerner Millennium Oracle schemas.
- Support enterprise-wide EHR migration and legacy system retirement initiatives.
- Develop and maintain structured data feeds, flat file extracts, and ETL pipelines.
- Troubleshoot CCL performance issues and downstream integration/reporting challenges.
- Collaborate with clinical informatics stakeholders and technical teams to ensure accurate implementation of clinical intent.
- Communicate technical dependencies, limitations, and data constraints to non-technical audiences.
- Execute and tune CCL scripts and manage batch jobs across production and non-production environments.
- Support healthcare interoperability, REST/SOA integrations, and enterprise reporting systems.
- Ensure adherence to HHSC standards, governance policies, and security requirements.
Required Skills & Experience
Mandatory Qualifications
- 11+ years of experience understanding clinical workflows and healthcare operations.
- 11+ years supporting large-scale EHR implementations, migrations, or optimization initiatives.
- 11+ years translating clinical requirements into technical and data specifications.
- 11+ years of advanced hands-on experience with Cerner Command Language (CCL).
- Strong working knowledge of Cerner Millennium architecture and Oracle databases.
- Extensive experience with SQL, Linux, and enterprise data extraction/migration patterns.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting ETL processes.
- Familiarity with healthcare data integrations and reporting environments.
- Experience with REST/SOA development and service integrations.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and performance tuning.
- Proven experience writing, executing, and optimizing CCL scripts in production environments.
- Experience with system integration, data extraction, and enterprise code development.
- Working knowledge of Java, C, C++, Python, Perl, or OCI.
- Hands-on experience supporting cloud-based services in AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience supporting Cerner Millennium environments.
- Previous experience serving as a Senior Cerner Consultant or Technical Lead.
- Healthcare domain experience supporting enterprise clinical systems.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Technical Environment
- Cerner Millennium
- Cerner Command Language (CCL)
- Oracle Database
- SQL
- Linux
- ETL/Data Migration Tools
- REST/SOA Services
- AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI
- Java / Python / Perl / C / C++