Description

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building.

Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare's greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.

Overview

In this role, you will design, build, and operate high-throughput, multi-tenant services. You'll lead architecture and implementation of resilient, secure distributed systems, set engineering standards, and mentor teams to deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Lead end-to-end design of resilient, secure, and scalable distributed systems.
• Define and evolve service architectures, interfaces, and platform standards.
• Produce design docs with clear trade-offs, assumptions, and risk mitigation.

Engineering Excellence

• Raise the bar on reliability, performance, security, and testability.
• Ensure high code quality through reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Drive performance profiling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.

Delivery & Operations

• Own service SLIs/SLOs; implement monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.
• Lead major projects and phased rollouts with measurable outcomes.
• Use metrics to manage large server fleets and complex compute systems; automate wherever possible.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Set technical direction and goals for impact, quality, and efficiency.
• Mentor and onboard engineers; cultivate a learning and safety culture.
• Partner with product, security, SRE, data, and customer teams to refine requirements via tight, data-driven feedback loops.

Compliance & Policy

Rigorously adhere to confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and internal policy requirements in all aspects of design, development, and operations.

Maintain compliance with Inovalon policies, procedures, and mission.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: 9+ years in software engineering with deep experience in full-stack or platform development for high-scale, distributed systems (virtualization, multi-tenant, high-performance computing) with health care systems.
• Architecture & Systems: Strong background in system design, security fundamentals, reliability engineering, and automation.
• Programming & Frameworks: Expertise with .NET 8/C#, Node.js, Angular 18+ and scripting languages (Python, TypeScript), JavaScript
• Cloud & DevOps: Production experience on any Cloud (AWS Preferred) ; Azure DevOps for CI/CD; infrastructure as code and modern observability practices.
• Data & Storage: SQL Server 2022, Snowflake, PostgreSql; schema design, performance tuning, and data reliability.
• Quality: Test automation (e.g., Selenium, unit/integration/e2e), blue/green or canary rollouts, monitoring, and proactive stability improvements.
• Virtualization/Containers: Hands-on with virtualization/containerization and orchestrated environments.
• Problem Solving: Expert, creative troubleshooter with a bias for elegant, maintainable solutions; calm under pressure; strong written and verbal communication.

Nice to Have (Preferred)

• Experience with service meshes, event streaming, and asynchronous architecture.
• Security by design: threat modeling, secrets management, least-privilege, compliance automation.
• Performance engineering at scale (load testing, benchmarking, profiling).
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and platform migrations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Work Environment & Physical Demands

• Primarily sedentary; ability to sit for extended periods.
• Occasionally lift to 10 lbs.
• Predominantly office/indoor working conditions.
• Travel

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship (e.g. H-1B, TN, or E-3). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States as a condition of employment. (This is only applicable for US-based positions)

If you don't meet every qualification listed but are excited about our mission and the work described, we encourage you to apply. Inovalon is most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and you may be just the right person for this or other roles.

By embracing inclusion, we enhance our work environment and drive business success. Inovalon strives to provide equal opportunities to the communities where we operate and to our clients and everyone whom we serve. We endeavor to create a culture of inclusion in which our associates feel empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work and pursue their professional goals in an equitable setting. We understand that by fostering this type of culture, and welcoming different perspectives, we generate innovation and growth.

Inovalon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirement.

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