City/State Richmond, VA Work Shift Multiple shifts available Overview: Sentara is hiring a Senior Business System Analyst! This position is fully remote. Work Location: Remote opportunities available in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington (state), West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Overview This position is responsible for support, enhancement and implementation software applications used within the organization. Oversees and directs intermediate scale projects or components of large-scale projects; develops project plans and timelines and coordination of project resources. Description Incumbent will identify opportunities to leverage technologies in areas that improve and enhance the business practices by designing and implementing application/product enhancements. Works with and is a liaison to customers and end-users, appropriate IT personnel and software vendors on a regular basis to align technology functionality to operational processes. Assess, research, analyze, and document stakeholder needs, selecting the appropriate information gathering and/or modeling technique to elicit requirements. Develop detailed test cases, execute them, and share results with business and tech managers for approval. Work jointly with developers to solution and provide cost and time estimates on fixes and enhancements. Performs longer term analysis and design of systems and hardware to maintain the production environments. Synthesize requirements and develop recommendations that best meet the objectives of the business. Works on project teams that are developing or modifying very complex information systems. Responsibilities Serve as the primary liaison between business units, IT groups, and external partners regarding Enrollment and Eligibility processes, with a focus on EDI 834 file exchanges Elicit detailed requirements from stakeholders for the onboarding and maintenance of EDI 834 transactions Analyze, map, and document data flows, business processes, and system interfaces-particularly for enrollment and eligibility functions Review and validate inbound and outbound EDI 834 files to ensure data integrity and compliance with industry and regulatory standards Utilize methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, and SDLC to manage and support projects related to enrollment and eligibility Develop and execute SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting of EDI 834 transactions and enrollment data Identify and mitigate operational and technological risks associated with enrollment file exchanges and eligibility processing Lead testing, troubleshooting, and enhancement activities for enrollment systems and EDI integrations Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external partners (e.g., plan sponsors, TPAs) Proactively identify opportunities for business process improvement and innovation within enrollment and eligibility operations Drive initiatives to increase customer satisfaction by streamlining EDI processes, enhancing data accuracy, and optimizing workflows Evaluate project team performance and ensure objectives, targets, and timelines for enrollment and eligibility enhancements are consistently met Oversee the design and implementation of new enrollment-related solutions and assess their impact on customer satisfaction and operational efficiency Create and distribute monthly performance and operational analysis reports using Tableau, Excel, and other analytic tools Stay informed of regulatory changes and industry trends regarding EDI 834, HIPAA, and member enrollment Provide training and guidance to junior analysts and business units on EDI 834 standards and enrollment practices Education Bachelor's degree preferably in a field such as Computer Science, Business, Technical, Education, Information Systems, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Engineering, Information Technology (Required) or Candidates without a bachelor's degree with 6 or more years of relevant experience may be considered. Experience: 4 years of relevant experience (Required) Proficiency in SQL, HTML, and CSS (Preferred) Must have experience working in SQL Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Nice to have experience working in Salesforce, QNXT, Edifecs We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for full-time employment is: $69,876 - $116,438. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities Talroo-health plan, Member enrollment, EDI-834, project management, inbound, member eligibility, QNXT, Facets, SQL, reporting, queries, enrollment, Medicaid, commercial, health plans, HIPAA, Salesforce Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career • Medical, Dental, Vision plans • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000 • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave • Emergency Backup Care • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans • Life Insurance • 401k/403B with Employer Match • Tuition Assistance - $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education • Student Debt Pay Down - $10,000 •Pet Insurance •Legal Resources Plan •Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met. Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment. For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
08/08/2026
Full time
City/State Richmond, VA Work Shift Multiple shifts available Overview: Sentara is hiring a Senior Business System Analyst! This position is fully remote. Work Location: Remote opportunities available in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington (state), West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Overview This position is responsible for support, enhancement and implementation software applications used within the organization. Oversees and directs intermediate scale projects or components of large-scale projects; develops project plans and timelines and coordination of project resources. Description Incumbent will identify opportunities to leverage technologies in areas that improve and enhance the business practices by designing and implementing application/product enhancements. Works with and is a liaison to customers and end-users, appropriate IT personnel and software vendors on a regular basis to align technology functionality to operational processes. Assess, research, analyze, and document stakeholder needs, selecting the appropriate information gathering and/or modeling technique to elicit requirements. Develop detailed test cases, execute them, and share results with business and tech managers for approval. Work jointly with developers to solution and provide cost and time estimates on fixes and enhancements. Performs longer term analysis and design of systems and hardware to maintain the production environments. Synthesize requirements and develop recommendations that best meet the objectives of the business. Works on project teams that are developing or modifying very complex information systems. Responsibilities Serve as the primary liaison between business units, IT groups, and external partners regarding Enrollment and Eligibility processes, with a focus on EDI 834 file exchanges Elicit detailed requirements from stakeholders for the onboarding and maintenance of EDI 834 transactions Analyze, map, and document data flows, business processes, and system interfaces-particularly for enrollment and eligibility functions Review and validate inbound and outbound EDI 834 files to ensure data integrity and compliance with industry and regulatory standards Utilize methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, and SDLC to manage and support projects related to enrollment and eligibility Develop and execute SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting of EDI 834 transactions and enrollment data Identify and mitigate operational and technological risks associated with enrollment file exchanges and eligibility processing Lead testing, troubleshooting, and enhancement activities for enrollment systems and EDI integrations Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external partners (e.g., plan sponsors, TPAs) Proactively identify opportunities for business process improvement and innovation within enrollment and eligibility operations Drive initiatives to increase customer satisfaction by streamlining EDI processes, enhancing data accuracy, and optimizing workflows Evaluate project team performance and ensure objectives, targets, and timelines for enrollment and eligibility enhancements are consistently met Oversee the design and implementation of new enrollment-related solutions and assess their impact on customer satisfaction and operational efficiency Create and distribute monthly performance and operational analysis reports using Tableau, Excel, and other analytic tools Stay informed of regulatory changes and industry trends regarding EDI 834, HIPAA, and member enrollment Provide training and guidance to junior analysts and business units on EDI 834 standards and enrollment practices Education Bachelor's degree preferably in a field such as Computer Science, Business, Technical, Education, Information Systems, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Engineering, Information Technology (Required) or Candidates without a bachelor's degree with 6 or more years of relevant experience may be considered. Experience: 4 years of relevant experience (Required) Proficiency in SQL, HTML, and CSS (Preferred) Must have experience working in SQL Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Nice to have experience working in Salesforce, QNXT, Edifecs We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for full-time employment is: $69,876 - $116,438. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities Talroo-health plan, Member enrollment, EDI-834, project management, inbound, member eligibility, QNXT, Facets, SQL, reporting, queries, enrollment, Medicaid, commercial, health plans, HIPAA, Salesforce Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career • Medical, Dental, Vision plans • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000 • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave • Emergency Backup Care • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans • Life Insurance • 401k/403B with Employer Match • Tuition Assistance - $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education • Student Debt Pay Down - $10,000 •Pet Insurance •Legal Resources Plan •Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met. Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment. For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
The Forward Deployed Process Analyst works directly with clinical, operational, and IDT teams to understand workflows, identify process issues, and define practical improvements that support business goals and user experience. This field-facing role focuses on workflow redesign, process improvement, user adoption, and technology-enabled operational change across platforms such as Skypoint, NextGen, Salesforce, and other approved enterprise systems. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Observes, documents, and analyzes clinical and operational workflows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, duplicate work, and process variation Defines future-state workflows and operational improvements that simplify work, improve efficiency, and support organizational goals leveraging data analytics, system integration, and AI Translates operational needs into clear workflows, requirements, user stories, and reporting needs for technology solutions Partners with the Forward Deployed Application Developer to design, test, refine, and improve platform-based solutions across Salesforce CRM, NextGen EHR, and Skypoint AI Agent platform. Leads workflow validation, user feedback, testing, and post-launch optimization activities Supports training, communication, adoption, and change management for new workflows and technology solutions Collaborates across clinical, operational, and technology teams to clarify business definitions, reporting requirements, and data needs Helps measure workflow improvements, operational outcomes, user adoption, and reduction in manual effort Maintains documentation of workflows, requirements, process changes, and operational decisions Frequent local travel Performs other duties as assigned JOB SPECIFICATION 4-8 years of experience in healthcare operations, workflow redesign, process improvement, business analysis, project management, and technology-enabled operational improvement initiatives; experience in Lean, or Six Sigma a plus Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered Strong understanding of operational workflows and ability to simplify complex processes into practical solutions Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills Ability to work effectively with frontline staff, managers, executives, technology teams Ability to translate operational needs into clear business and workflow requirements Comfortable working with technology-enabled process improvement and enterprise applications Basic understanding of data, reporting, workflows, and user-facing systems Experience with system implementations, workflow redesign, user testing, or change management preferred Goal oriented, self-starter able to work independently and as part of a team. Healthcare, payer/provider, PACE, senior care, value-based care, or HIPAA experience preferred Covid vaccinated preferred Salary range: 85K to 110k EEO Statement Element Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Element Care is committed to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working environment. Compensation details: 00 Yearly Salary PI7efd1bee2d09-0497
08/07/2026
Full time
The Forward Deployed Process Analyst works directly with clinical, operational, and IDT teams to understand workflows, identify process issues, and define practical improvements that support business goals and user experience. This field-facing role focuses on workflow redesign, process improvement, user adoption, and technology-enabled operational change across platforms such as Skypoint, NextGen, Salesforce, and other approved enterprise systems. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Observes, documents, and analyzes clinical and operational workflows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, duplicate work, and process variation Defines future-state workflows and operational improvements that simplify work, improve efficiency, and support organizational goals leveraging data analytics, system integration, and AI Translates operational needs into clear workflows, requirements, user stories, and reporting needs for technology solutions Partners with the Forward Deployed Application Developer to design, test, refine, and improve platform-based solutions across Salesforce CRM, NextGen EHR, and Skypoint AI Agent platform. Leads workflow validation, user feedback, testing, and post-launch optimization activities Supports training, communication, adoption, and change management for new workflows and technology solutions Collaborates across clinical, operational, and technology teams to clarify business definitions, reporting requirements, and data needs Helps measure workflow improvements, operational outcomes, user adoption, and reduction in manual effort Maintains documentation of workflows, requirements, process changes, and operational decisions Frequent local travel Performs other duties as assigned JOB SPECIFICATION 4-8 years of experience in healthcare operations, workflow redesign, process improvement, business analysis, project management, and technology-enabled operational improvement initiatives; experience in Lean, or Six Sigma a plus Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered Strong understanding of operational workflows and ability to simplify complex processes into practical solutions Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills Ability to work effectively with frontline staff, managers, executives, technology teams Ability to translate operational needs into clear business and workflow requirements Comfortable working with technology-enabled process improvement and enterprise applications Basic understanding of data, reporting, workflows, and user-facing systems Experience with system implementations, workflow redesign, user testing, or change management preferred Goal oriented, self-starter able to work independently and as part of a team. Healthcare, payer/provider, PACE, senior care, value-based care, or HIPAA experience preferred Covid vaccinated preferred Salary range: 85K to 110k EEO Statement Element Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Element Care is committed to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working environment. Compensation details: 00 Yearly Salary PI7efd1bee2d09-0497
Tech Summary This senior-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization, which provides an integrated enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department enables application and technology teams to modernize workloads, adopt consistent deployment practices, and operate business-critical services with strong reliability, security, compliance, and operational readiness. The Senior Container Platform Engineer is a hands-on engineering partner responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and supporting reusable platform capabilities that simplify application onboarding and improve the developer experience. The position works closely with application teams and partners across cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, and development automation to translate enterprise needs into secure, scalable, and supportable solutions. The role contributes to automation, standardized onboarding patterns, platform lifecycle improvements, production troubleshooting, and continuous service improvement across shared and dedicated container environments. By combining platform engineering with application enablement and production ownership, this position helps reduce one-off implementations, improve delivery consistency, and expand adoption of the enterprise container service for teams supporting mission-critical healthcare capabilities. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for providing expert technical advice on IT infrastructure for assigned systems, setting the technical direction for infrastructure solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while mentoring and advising others in all system development lifecycle phases. Essential Responsibilities: Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Provides consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities. Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs. Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems. Serves as a functional expert and collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs. Translates business requirements, and functional and non-functional requirements, into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications. Ensures system designs adhere to company architecture standards. Builds partnerships with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation. Serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services. Mentors other technical resources throughout infrastructure systems development. Reviews and validates technical specifications and documentation for complex or multi-dimensional solutions. Leads the development and modification of solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems. Collaborates with business leaders, Solutions, and lead enterprise architects to review business drivers, and establish a foundation for enterprise systems planning. Reviews benchmarking results, and provides information to support current and future infrastructure needs and projects to IT leadership. Provides preliminary conclusions. Benchmarks and evaluates IT trends and technologies to identify opportunities and considerations that impact ROI. Makes recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands. Guides and drives physical architecture design for new initiatives. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. Additional Requirements:
08/07/2026
Full time
Tech Summary This senior-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization, which provides an integrated enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department enables application and technology teams to modernize workloads, adopt consistent deployment practices, and operate business-critical services with strong reliability, security, compliance, and operational readiness. The Senior Container Platform Engineer is a hands-on engineering partner responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and supporting reusable platform capabilities that simplify application onboarding and improve the developer experience. The position works closely with application teams and partners across cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, and development automation to translate enterprise needs into secure, scalable, and supportable solutions. The role contributes to automation, standardized onboarding patterns, platform lifecycle improvements, production troubleshooting, and continuous service improvement across shared and dedicated container environments. By combining platform engineering with application enablement and production ownership, this position helps reduce one-off implementations, improve delivery consistency, and expand adoption of the enterprise container service for teams supporting mission-critical healthcare capabilities. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for providing expert technical advice on IT infrastructure for assigned systems, setting the technical direction for infrastructure solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while mentoring and advising others in all system development lifecycle phases. Essential Responsibilities: Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Provides consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities. Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs. Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems. Serves as a functional expert and collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs. Translates business requirements, and functional and non-functional requirements, into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications. Ensures system designs adhere to company architecture standards. Builds partnerships with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation. Serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services. Mentors other technical resources throughout infrastructure systems development. Reviews and validates technical specifications and documentation for complex or multi-dimensional solutions. Leads the development and modification of solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems. Collaborates with business leaders, Solutions, and lead enterprise architects to review business drivers, and establish a foundation for enterprise systems planning. Reviews benchmarking results, and provides information to support current and future infrastructure needs and projects to IT leadership. Provides preliminary conclusions. Benchmarks and evaluates IT trends and technologies to identify opportunities and considerations that impact ROI. Makes recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands. Guides and drives physical architecture design for new initiatives. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. Additional Requirements:
Tech Summary This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
07/28/2026
Full time
Tech Summary This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.