Sr. Clinical Terminologist - MD
Full-Time 200000 - 250000 USD per-year-salaryJob Overview
The Clinical Informatics department develops and maintains the content that powers IMO products. Our Informatics & Terminology Engineering team includes clinical terminologists, non-clinical analysts, coding professionals, tool developers, and database experts. Clinical Terminologists collaborate across teams to build and maintain a robust corpus of clinical content using advanced tools designed by IMO software teams.
As a Sr. Clinical Terminologist specializing in oncology, you’ll leverage your patient care experience and research skills to develop, QA, maintain, and enhance IMO’s terminology-based products – ensuring clinical integrity and supporting innovation in healthcare. This is an ideal role for a clinician who enjoys detailed analytical work, values precise language, and wants to make a meaningful impact on healthcare.
The Clinical Informatics department develops and maintains the content that powers IMO products. Our Informatics & Terminology Engineering team includes clinical terminologists, non-clinical analysts, coding professionals, tool developers, and database experts. Clinical Terminologists collaborate across teams to build and maintain a robust corpus of clinical content using advanced tools designed by IMO software teams.
As a Sr. Clinical Terminologist specializing in oncology, you’ll leverage your patient care experience and research skills to develop, QA, maintain, and enhance IMO’s terminology-based products – ensuring clinical integrity and supporting innovation in healthcare. This is an ideal role for a clinician who enjoys detailed analytical work, values precise language, and wants to make a meaningful impact on healthcare.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Apply your oncology expertise to create and curate specialized terminology for cancer diagnoses, staging systems, treatment protocols, biomarkers, and emerging precision medicine concepts.
- Conduct research using medical journals and clinically valid sources to support terminology development and proactive content creation for evolving oncology needs.
- Populate and maintain complex, highly specialized terminology datasets using your medical knowledge and clinical experience.
- Create new terms and map them to standard terminologies (e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD-O, RxNorm, LOINC), including analysis, QA, and customer communication.
- Collaborate with clinical informaticists, product teams, and healthcare organizations to ensure oncology content meets real-world documentation and quality reporting needs.
- Provide clinical expertise for customer inquiries and requests, including direct communication when needed.
- Review updates to standardized terminologies and assess impacts on IMO Health content and products; perform maintenance and mapping updates as appropriate.
- Partner with sales and marketing teams to demonstrate clinical value of terminology solutions to prospective healthcare systems and cancer centers.
- Perform data analysis and discovery using database tools, including writing SQL queries.
- Maintain and expand your clinical knowledge to increase impact and effectiveness.
- Assess feasibility and level of effort for projects under guidance of technical leads.
- Identify, evaluate, and execute quality or process improvement initiatives.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- Medical degree (M.D. or D.O.) specializing in oncology (U.S. or international).
- Residency or equivalent clinical experience required; 5+ years clinical experience strongly preferred.
- Formal informatics training strongly preferred; 5+ years informatics experience a plus.
- M.S. in Informatics preferred.
- Experience with standardized clinical vocabularies (SNOMED CT, ICD-O, RxNorm, LOINC) strongly preferred.
- Excellent command of English and American medical terminology; familiarity with international vocabularies a plus.
- SQL skills a strong plus.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Passion for language precision and nuanced meaning.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to see the big picture.
- Continuous improvement mindset with curiosity to ask “why.”
- Ability to apply learning across different scenarios.
- Willingness to lead projects and acquire new skills over time.