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Engineering Manager responsible for leading multiple Agile engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development. Owns end-to-end delivery of scalable, reliable, secure AWS and data-intensive systems; drives CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and delivery improvements. Manages cross-team execution, stakeholder communication, incident response, compliance, and client-facing technical discussions. Contributes to engineering strategy, organizational design, communities of practice, and federal proposal development.

Designs and maintains secure, scalable backend services, microservices, APIs, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and observability platforms. Implements Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps controls, performs vulnerability management and incident troubleshooting, conducts architecture and security reviews, documents systems, collaborates across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and evaluates technologies to improve reliability and delivery.

Lead long-term product vision and strategy for CMS-supported digital healthcare services. Translate executive and client goals into strategic roadmaps, align cross-functional teams, mentor product practitioners, and guide product management practices. Influence stakeholders without formal authority, support consulting and business development efforts, and identify growth opportunities. The role emphasizes horizon-three strategy, civic healthcare outcomes, user-centered design, agile delivery, compliance, procurement, and federal contracting rather than day-to-day delivery.

Supports senior product strategy by translating roadmap priorities into backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Manages daily prioritization, agile ceremonies, stakeholder communication, and assigned features in collaboration with engineering, design, and QA. Learns how federal policy, compliance, and procurement influence product decisions while contributing to healthcare technology solutions for CMS.

Design healthcare digital services using service design principles to understand patient, caregiver, provider, payer, and policymaker journeys. Create clear, decision-supporting solutions that reduce confusion, streamline processes, improve patient care, and reduce costs. Collaborate remotely with clients and cross-functional teams in a mission-driven environment focused on public health outcomes.

Conduct qualitative and quantitative UX research for CMS healthcare and program-integrity products. Develop research plans, facilitate interviews and usability testing, analyze findings, and translate insights into product requirements and actionable design improvements. Collaborate with product owners, designers, stakeholders, and agile development teams to define success metrics, reduce ambiguity, and improve usability.

Build and maintain accessible React and TypeScript interfaces plus Go services on AWS. Design PostgreSQL schemas, implement comprehensive automated tests, and support CI/CD, observability, security, and production reliability. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams throughout the SDLC, enforce quality standards, resolve defects, and participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation. Work includes accessibility compliance, performance testing, blue/green deployments, feature flags, and continuous technical improvement.

Develop and maintain full-stack healthcare applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, and TypeScript. Build APIs, data models, user interfaces, and automated testing suites while optimizing data operations for scalability, performance, integrity, and security. Scope and deliver medium-to-large features, reduce technical debt, contribute to system design, and support team members in a remote-first environment.

Own data ingestion, validation, reconciliation, and quality pipelines using Python, advanced SQL, and PostgreSQL. Design schemas, indexes, migrations, automated tests, and CI/CD workflows while handling unreliable third-party feeds. Develop test plans, track defects, establish quality metrics, conduct performance and security testing, and support compliance documentation. Preferred experience includes AWS event-driven architectures, healthcare or payer data, orchestration tools, infrastructure as code, FedRAMP environments, data quality frameworks, and anomaly detection.

Owns the technical design, development, maintenance, and operations of software products for CMS’s QMARS healthcare systems. Researches technologies, develops proofs of concept, mentors engineers, enforces team processes, and contributes to modernization using Python, React or Angular, TypeScript, and AI technologies. The role requires prior supervisory or lead experience and supports a remote-first team serving public health and healthcare quality improvement programs.