Sr. Clinical Terminologist - Oncology MD

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.