Senior Principal Consultant, Medicaid Programs

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease.  

We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Senior Principal Consultant and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.  

Progress Federal Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Progress Software, a publicly held company building products that impact millions of people every day. Across the globe, Progress technology has been used to discover new medicines, run the world’s financial systems, prevent terrorism, and much more.  
 
Progress Federal Solutions focuses on servicing the U.S. government and public sector. Our primary product is a highly differentiated data management platform that helps our customers on their journey to get more value out of their enterprise data. We enable organizations to integrate all their data and metadata, power transactional and analytical applications, and curate data for machine learning and AI.  To learn more visit www.progress.com/federal.  

We are seeking a Lead Architect / Technical Delivery Lead to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing delivery of a large-scale Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization program for the State of New Jersey. This role will serve as the senior technical authority and customer-facing lead responsible for delivering a cloud-based MarkLogic data platform that supports data integration, analytics, operational reporting, and healthcare modernization initiatives.

The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in MarkLogic architecture and data engineering with strong program leadership skills, working closely with state stakeholders, implementation partners, and internal delivery teams.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead overall architecture, design, and delivery of the NJ Medicaid data platform.
• Define and implement enterprise data models, canonical healthcare data structures, and integration patterns.
• Lead installation, configuration, and optimization of MarkLogic, Data Hub Framework, and supporting platform components.
• Design and oversee implementation of security, auditing, encryption, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Direct development teams building: 
  • Data ingestion and transformation pipelines
  • Entity mastering solutions
  • Change Data Capture (CDC) services
  • Event Management Framework (EMF) capabilities
  • User interfaces and reporting solutions
• Provide technical leadership for system integration, testing, performance tuning, and production readiness activities.
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, security reviews, and remediation efforts.
• Develop operational procedures, monitoring strategies, and support models for production environments.
• Provide customer-facing leadership, status reporting, risk management, resource planning, and executive communications.
• Mentor customer and project team personnel through knowledge transfer and best practices.

Your background: 

• 10+ years leading enterprise data platform implementations.
• 5+ years of hands-on MarkLogic architecture and development experience.
• Experience with Data Hub, metadata modeling, entity services, and semantic technologies.
• Proven experience designing cloud-native, highly available, and secure enterprise systems.
• Strong expertise in: 
  • Data integration and ETL/ELT architectures
  • REST APIs and service-oriented architectures
  • CDC and event-driven processing
  • Data governance and security
  • Performance tuning and operational support
• Experience leading distributed technical teams and interacting with executive stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and customer engagement skills.

Additionally, it would be beneficial if you have: 

• Medicaid, healthcare, health information exchange (HIE), or government healthcare experience.
• Experience with MES modernization initiatives.
• Familiarity with FHIR, C-CDA, eligibility systems, claims processing, provider data, or program integrity solutions.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP, NIST, CMS MARS-E, or similar security and compliance frameworks.
• MarkLogic certification strongly preferred.
• AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud certifications preferred.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable serving as:

• Enterprise Architect
• Hands-on Technical Leader
• Customer-facing Trusted Advisor
• Delivery and Program Lead

They must be capable of translating Medicaid business objectives into scalable technical solutions while guiding a multi-disciplinary team through implementation, testing, production deployment, and ongoing operations.

This is a highly visible leadership role supporting one of the largest Medicaid modernization initiatives in the country.

Base Salary Range: $158,000 - $185,000
This position is also eligible to participate in our commission plan. Final base compensation is determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, education, demonstrable experience, and allowance for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a robust benefits package, with details below.

If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we’d be happy to chat.   

What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:  

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits, including a 401(k) retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement program, and optional benefits such as critical illness/hospital indemnity/personal accident, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal insurance, and pet insurance. 
• Competitive salary and incentive compensation opportunities, including bonus or uncapped commission (as applicable to the position), along with a best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) featuring a 27-month lookback. 
• Flexible paid vacation time, a paid day off for your birthday, company holidays, and a variety of leave programs, including Parental Leave. 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and employee well-being resources focused on physical, mental, social, and financial health.

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