Senior Technical Lead / Technical Product Owner, AWS Healthcare

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog.

• Act as the main technical and product liaison with CMS and other stakeholders.

• Facilitate solution discussions, gather requirements, and build consensus through effective decision-making.

• Drive the discovery of solutions and recommend scalable, secure, and maintainable options.

• Convey the product vision, roadmap, delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and technical strategy effectively.

• Guide the technical direction, delivery, and daily management of development teams.

• Mentor developers, perform code reviews, manage workload priorities, and advocate for engineering best practices.

• Design and supervise system architecture ensuring scalability, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.

• Transform business objectives into actionable technical solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Address architectural decisions, development challenges, production support, and performance enhancements.

• Enhance software development processes, tooling, automation, DevSecOps, and engineering methodologies.

• Create and sustain documentation for architecture, design, implementation, and development.

• Coordinate integration, testing, deployment, and production support among technical teams.

• Ensure strategies for unit, integration, automated, and performance testing are in place.

• Engage in issue triage, root cause analysis, and ongoing improvement initiatives.

• Define and prioritize user stories, acceptance criteria, technical debt, compliance requirements, and architectural enhancements.

• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, product demonstrations, and Agile ceremonies.

• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

• A minimum of 7+ years of experience in software development.

• At least 2–3 years in a Technical Lead, Engineering Manager, or a similar leadership capacity.

• Proven experience in defining product vision, managing roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and converting customer needs into technical solutions.

• Experience in leading customer workshops, technical discussions, requirements gathering, and executive presentations.

• Experience in guiding cross-functional software development teams and technical delivery across several initiatives.

• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.

• Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST APIs, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience with Docker and AWS ECS.

• Minimum of 2+ years of practical experience with AWS services.

• Familiarity with CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic, or similar observability tools.

• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Jenkins or similar deployment tools.

• Understanding of software architecture, secure development practices, software engineering principles, and modern design patterns.

• Experience in performance optimization, scalability, troubleshooting, and production support.

• Background in mentoring developers, conducting code reviews, and fostering technical teams.

• Experience with Git/version control systems and collaborative development workflows.

• Strong grasp of Scrum and Kanban methodologies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, and Agile ceremonies.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and leadership abilities.

• Familiarity with Amazon QuickSight, Slice, Alembic, Databricks, or similar reporting, analytics, and data visualization tools.

• Preferred: Master's degree in a related field.

• Preferred: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, or Certified Scrum Master.

• Preferred: Experience with federal healthcare contracts and standards like FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and related regulations.

• Preferred: Experience collaborating directly with CMS or other federal agencies.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work opportunity.

• A supportive, collaborative, and friendly work environment.

• A diverse workforce.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities.

• Engaging and impactful work within the public healthcare sector.