Medicaid Data Platform Lead & Cloud Architecture

Progress; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 158,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life/ Disability insurance

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Critical illness

Hospital indemnity

Identity protection

Auto insurance

Home insurance

Legal insurance

Pet insurance

ESPP

Bonus / Commission

Flexible vacation

Birthday leave

Job summary

Progress operates a leading architecture team in New Jersey for Medicaid MES modernization, directing a cloud-based MarkLogic data platform that enables data integration, analytics, and healthcare modernization initiatives.

You will combine deep MarkLogic expertise with program leadership, coordinating with state stakeholders and delivery teams, modeling data, and ensuring security, governance, and production readiness while mentoring teams.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of the NJ Medicaid data platform.
• Define and implement enterprise data models and integration patterns.
• Install, configure, and optimize MarkLogic, Data Hub Framework, and supporting components.
• Design security, auditing, encryption, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery.
• 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.

Skills

MarkLogic architecture

MarkLogic development

Enterprise data platform

Data integration ETL/ELT

REST APIs

CDC / event-driven

Data governance & security

Cloud-native architecture

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

MarkLogic certification

Tools

MarkLogic

Data Hub Framework

Job description

Progress operates a leading architecture team in New Jersey for Medicaid MES modernization, directing a cloud-based MarkLogic data platform that enables data integration, analytics, and healthcare modernization initiatives.

You will combine deep MarkLogic expertise with program leadership, coordinating with state stakeholders and delivery teams, modeling data, and ensuring security, governance, and production readiness while mentoring teams.