Medicaid Modernization Lead Architect

Progress; United States; On-site; USD 158,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off & holidays

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Progress is seeking a Lead Architect / Technical Delivery Lead to drive a large-scale Medicaid MES modernization program for the State of New Jersey. You will serve as the senior technical authority, delivering a cloud-based MarkLogic data platform that enables data integration, analytics, and healthcare modernization initiatives.

The role blends hands-on architecture with customer-facing leadership, guiding cross-functional teams and interacting with state stakeholders, partners, and delivery

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading enterprise data platform implementations.
• 5+ years hands-on MarkLogic architecture and development.
• Experience with Data Hub, metadata modeling, and entity services.
• Designing cloud-native, highly available enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of the NJ Medicaid data platform.
• Define enterprise data models and integration patterns.
• Install, configure, and optimize MarkLogic and supporting components.
• Design security, auditing, encryption, HA, backup, and DR capabilities.
• Direct development teams for data pipelines, CDC, EMF, UIs and reporting.
• Provide technical leadership for integration, testing, and production readiness.
• Support ATO activities, security reviews, and remediation.
• Develop operations procedures and monitoring strategies.
• Provide customer-facing leadership, status reporting, and risk management.
• Mentor customer and project teams through best practices.

Skills

Enterprise data platforms

Data integration

Leadership / team leadership

Communication

Security and governance

Program delivery

Cloud-native design

REST APIs

Tools

MarkLogic

Data Hub Framework

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Progress is seeking a Lead Architect / Technical Delivery Lead to drive a large-scale Medicaid MES modernization program for the State of New Jersey. You will serve as the senior technical authority, delivering a cloud-based MarkLogic data platform that enables data integration, analytics, and healthcare modernization initiatives.

The role blends hands-on architecture with customer-facing leadership, guiding cross-functional teams and interacting with state stakeholders, partners, and delivery