Senior Principal Consultant, Medicaid Programs at Progress Software Corp

Job description

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease. We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Senior Principal Consultant and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward. Progress Federal Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Progress Software, a publicly held company building products that impact millions of people every day. Across the globe, Progress technology has been used to discover new medicines, run the world’s financial systems, prevent terrorism, and much more. Progress Federal Solutions focuses on servicing the U.S. government and public sector. Our primary product is a highly differentiated data management platform that helps our customers on their journey to get more value out of their enterprise data. We enable organizations to integrate all their data and metadata, power transactional and analytical applications, and curate data for machine learning and AI. To learn more visit www.progress.com/federal . We are seeking a Lead Architect / Technical Delivery Lead to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing delivery of a large-scale Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) modernization program for the State of New Jersey. This role will serve as the senior technical authority and customer-facing lead responsible for delivering a cloud-based MarkLogic data platform that supports data integration, analytics, operational reporting, and healthcare modernization initiatives. The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in MarkLogic architecture and data engineering with strong program leadership skills, working closely with state stakeholders, implementation partners, and internal delivery teams. In this role, you will: Lead overall architecture, design, and delivery of the NJ Medicaid data platform. Define and implement enterprise data models, canonical healthcare data structures, and integration patterns. Lead installation, configuration, and optimization of MarkLogic, Data Hub Framework, and supporting platform components. Design and oversee implementation of security, auditing, encryption, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities. 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. Your background: 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. Additionally, it would be beneficial if you have: Medicaid, healthcare, health information exchange (HIE), or government healthcare exp