Senior Principal Consultant, Medicaid Programs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the overall architecture, design, and implementation of the New Jersey Medicaid data platform.

• Establish and execute enterprise data models, canonical healthcare data frameworks, and integration methodologies.

• Lead the installation, configuration, and enhancement of MarkLogic, Data Hub Framework, and other supporting platform components.

• Design and manage security, auditing, encryption, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery functionalities.

• Direct the development of data ingestion and transformation pipelines, entity mastering solutions, CDC services, EMF capabilities, user interfaces, and reporting solutions.

• Provide technical direction for system integration, testing, performance optimization, and production readiness.

• Assist with Authority to Operate (ATO) initiatives, security evaluations, and remediation efforts.

• Create operational procedures, monitoring strategies, and production support frameworks.

• Offer customer-facing leadership, status updates, risk management, resource planning, and executive communications.

• Mentor customer and project team members through knowledge transfer and best practices.

• Convert Medicaid business goals into scalable technical solutions.

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team through implementation, testing, production deployment, and ongoing operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years leading enterprise data platform implementations.

• At least 5 years of practical experience in MarkLogic architecture and development.

• Familiarity with Data Hub, metadata modeling, entity services, and semantic technologies.

• Experience in designing cloud-native, highly available, and secure enterprise systems.

• Proficiency in data integration and ETL/ELT architectures.

• Strong expertise in REST APIs and service-oriented architectures.

• In-depth knowledge of CDC and event-driven processing.

• Comprehensive understanding of data governance and security.

• Proven expertise in performance tuning and operational support.

• Experience in leading distributed technical teams and engaging with executive stakeholders.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and customer engagement skills.

• Experience in Medicaid, healthcare, health information exchange (HIE), or government healthcare is advantageous.

• Familiarity with MES modernization initiatives is a plus.

• Knowledge of FHIR, C-CDA, eligibility systems, claims processing, provider data, or program integrity solutions is beneficial.

• Experience supporting FedRAMP, NIST, CMS MARS-E, or similar security and compliance frameworks is advantageous.

• MarkLogic certification is highly preferred.

• AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud certifications are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Optional critical illness, hospital indemnity, personal accident, identity theft protection, auto and home insurance, legal insurance, and pet insurance.

• Incentive compensation opportunities, including bonus or uncapped commission as applicable.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) featuring a 27-month lookback.

• Flexible paid vacation time.

• Paid day off for your birthday.

• Company holidays.

• Parental Leave and other leave programs.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Employee well-being resources focused on physical, mental, social, and financial health.