Information Architect

Project overview

Deadline: November 16, 2026, 12:00 PM - Contact for CV template.

Description of the assignment/assistance

Several initiatives are currently underway within Health Collaboration where the need for a well-defined information model is central. Additionally, the Ministry of Health and Care Services has issued a directive with addenda covering new functionality for citizens, where HSØ has prioritized the work on "My Appointment Choice - Changing an Assigned Appointment on Helsenorge".

To realize good solutions and achieve success, collaboration between a number of specialist systems is central, where areas such as standardization and harmonization of terminologies, semantics, and the establishment of consistent code sets are key.

For My Appointment Choice, the development is based on the solution Mine Timeavtaler/Timer 2.0 and will be a national solution for the specialist health service.

Consultant's tasks

Standardization of concepts, information models, and information structures at the regional level and towards national actors. The role shall ensure that professional, semantic, and technical requirements are translated into consistent and reusable information structures that can be used in procurement, development, and management of digital health solutions.

Responsibilities

Experience and competence

• Develop, describe, and maintain common concept models, information models, and information structures for the health sector with a main focus on collaboration
• Ensure harmonization of the conceptual apparatus across professional fields, solutions, and organizational levels.
• Contribute to the establishment and management of national and regional information standards and architectural principles covered by the assignment.
• Prepare and quality assure requirements for suppliers related to information structure, semantics, code sets, terminology, and interoperability.
• Collaborate with professional communities, architects, product owners, clinicians, and suppliers to ensure that information needs are correctly represented and standardized.
• Participate in the evaluation and use of relevant standards, code sets, and terminologies, such as SNOMED CT, ICD, NCMP, NCSP, and HL7 FHIR, with a particular focus on HL7 FHIR.
• Contribute to ensuring that the information architecture supports collaboration, data sharing, reporting, analysis, and service development across organizations.
• Work in a team with domain/business and solution architects
• Ensure that all information models that are modeled are stored and managed in the architecture library, and are modeled according to the current standard for this described in HSØ's architectural methodology Archimate
• Document in our architecture tool Bizzdesign

Requirements

Minimum Senior Consultant

Desired experience

Personal qualities

We do not want offers with candidates who do not meet the specified must-have requirements. The client is obliged to reject such offers if they are nevertheless submitted.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing clinical work processes, with documented relevant previous projects.
• Documented previous experience with information modeling, conceptual work, and standardization within the health and care sector.
• Documented previous experience with national e-health standards, terminologies, and collaboration requirements.
• Documented previous experience in translating complex professional needs into clear requirements and structures that can be used by suppliers and development environments.
• Documented competence in HL7 FHIR as well as the modeling languages Archimate and UML.
• Relevant health professional education, preferably combined with practical experience from clinics.
• Education/further education in Information Modeling/Information Architecture, or other relevant ICT architecture professional education.
• Must be able to demonstrate practical experience and execution ability in the area.
• Must be able to plan and manage working groups to map needs.
• Experience with the modeling tool BizzDesign.
• Certified in TOGAF.
• Cooperative
• Good at communicating and conveying messages (written and oral)
• Good ability to present information models in a pedagogical way adapted to the various target audiences.
• Ability to build bridges between professional fields, technology, and management.
• Functions well in a team.
• Extensive ability to understand complex issues.
• Creative.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 7-9 months
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Oslo, Norway, NO
• Languages: Norwegian