7 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve MARx’s overall solution architecture in alignment with CMS objectives, technology standards, and modernization strategies.
- Lead architecture for high-volume Medicare enrollment, premium, payment, reconciliation, and data-exchange processing.
- Design and optimize AWS cloud-native solutions for availability, resilience, disaster recovery, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Provide architectural oversight for PostgreSQL schemas, data models, queries, indexing, transaction management, batch processing, recovery, and data lifecycle strategies.
- Guide Golang application architecture, concurrency, API development, service integration, testing, performance, and secure coding.
- Define reliable integration patterns for RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, batch interfaces, file integrations, partner exchanges, validation, retries, reconciliation, and traceability.
- Establish performance engineering, capacity planning, observability, incident root-cause analysis, operational automation, and reliability improvements.
- Advise CMS business owners, OIT, program management, and cross-functional technical teams on architecture, risks, trade-offs, planning, and execution.
- Support modernization, innovation, automation, and responsible use of generative AI and AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Mentor architects, technical leads, developers, database engineers, and other technical staff through reviews, workshops, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Minimum experience is 12 years with a BS/BA, 10 years with an MS/MA, or 7 years with a Ph.D.
- At least 5 years of experience in a senior technical leadership, systems architecture, or solutions architecture role.
- Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale, mission-critical, data-intensive enterprise systems with high-volume transaction processing and complex business rules.
- Experience with AWS architecture, cloud-native solutions, high availability, disaster recovery, infrastructure optimization, and AWS services.
- Strong PostgreSQL experience covering architecture, data modeling, SQL optimization, indexing, transaction management, performance tuning, concurrency, replication, backup, and recovery.
- Strong Golang experience designing scalable applications, APIs, microservices, background services, concurrency models, database integrations, and performance optimizations.
- Extensive systems-integration experience with APIs, asynchronous integrations, batch interfaces, high-volume data exchanges, reliability, reconciliation, and transaction traceability.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, service-oriented and event-driven architectures, application security, authentication, authorization, encryption, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, automated testing, observability, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of CMS, Medicare Advantage, Part D enrollment and payment processing, policy changes, legislative mandates, sensitive beneficiary information, and regulated financial transactions.
- Experience supporting federal government systems and working with business stakeholders, program management, and senior technology leadership.
- US citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust are required.
- Preferred qualifications include direct MARx experience, CMS architecture standards, Medicare payment reconciliation, large-scale batch processing, distributed transaction management, AWS ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, FISMA, NIST 800-53, AI-assisted engineering, and AWS Solutions Architect certification or equivalent expertise.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.