Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTI International is an independent, scientific research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. The Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading a team focused on healthcare data analysis and software development, ensuring the delivery of high-performance solutions for federal healthcare clients.
Responsibilities
- Manage 8 – 12 programmers and working with other programmer leads to assign workloads
- Participate in Center Leadership meetings, and development of the Division and Center strategies
- Foster employee growth and development by meeting regularly with each staff member to discuss ongoing work, upcoming opportunities, project, proposal, scientific stature, and workload/level of effort
- Serve as technical lead for Medicare claims processing and analytics initiatives
- Provide architectural guidance on data management, programming standards, and system design
- Mentor junior and mid-level programmers in Python development, software engineering, and healthcare data methodologies
- Collaborate with statisticians, epidemiologists, health economists, and policy researchers to translate analytic requirements into production-ready solutions
- Lead code reviews and establish quality assurance standards for mission-critical healthcare applications
- Contribute to proposal development by designing technical approaches for large-scale healthcare data systems
- Maintain a project load commensurate with salary grade level expectations
Skills
- PhD with at least 8 years of experience; or a Master's degree with at least 12 years of experience; or a Bachelor's degree with at least 15 years of experience
- Strong track record of Python and SQL programming in a production environment
- Experience designing and maintaining complex workflows, issue schemas, permission models and governance frameworks in JIRA
- Strong knowledge of Agile software development methodologies, DevOps practices and project management frameworks
- Experience managing or leading complex tasks on projects for federal agencies such as CMS, CDC, and FDA
- Experience managing project programming teams, such as in a Lead Project Programmer or equivalent functional technical leadership role
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python and SQL applications that ingest, validate, transform, and analyze Medicare claims data
- Build automated data pipelines supporting operational reporting, research studies, program evaluations, and regulatory deliverables
- Develop reusable software frameworks for claims processing, beneficiary attribution, episode construction, and quality measurement
- Optimize processing performance for multi-terabyte healthcare datasets
- Implement automated testing, quality assurance procedures, and data validation routines
- Create technical documentation, code repositories, development standards, and deployment procedures
- Support production systems used by analysts, researchers, and federal clients
- Develop APIs and analytic services that integrate claims data with survey, enrollment, provider, and clinical datasets
- Experience supporting CMS, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, or other federal healthcare programs
- Experience developing reproducible analytic workflows for health services research, payment policy, quality measurement, risk adjustment, or program evaluation
- Familiarity with cloud-based analytic environments such as Snowflake or Databricks
- Experience supporting data enclaves, secure research environments, or controlled-access data platforms
- Knowledge of healthcare quality measures, utilization analysis, and risk-adjustment methodologies
Benefits
- A generous paid time off policy
- Merit based annual increases
- Bonus opportunities
- A robust recognition program
- A competitive range of insurance plans (including health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability)
- Access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan
- Paid parental leave for all parents
- Financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments
- Financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities
- An employee assistance program
- Numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance
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