Product Engineering Lead Data Applications

Living the vision of "Advancing the business of healthcare today for a better tomorrow," Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) works to perpetuate success throughout the healthcare industry as the premier association for professionals who lead medical practices. Since 1926, through data, people, insights, and advocacy, MGMA empowers medical group practices to innovate and create meaningful change in healthcare. We believe the future is what you make it, and we’re here to support the people who are ready to make the world a better place.

About the role

The Engineering Lead provides administrative and operational support to the Sales & Account Management Teams, overseeing coordination between Provider Services and other departments, as well as process improvement and efficiency of administrative duties. This role serves as the technical leader for an agile engineering pod within the Data Applications value stream, providing direction, technical leadership, and execution oversight for a defined set of technology capabilities. The Engineering Lead partners closely with product leadership to co-own the roadmap, ensure high-quality technical delivery, and guide engineering best practices across the pod. While not a formal people manager, this role leads by influence, delegating, structuring, and monitoring engineering work in a collaborative, agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for the agile pod within the assigned value stream, providing day-to-day direction and guidance to developers and other contributors.
• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to co-develop the value stream’s technical roadmap, defining priorities, estimating work, and ensuring alignment with business outcomes.
• Own technical delivery and ensure development is executed according to agreed standards, timelines, and architectural guidelines.
• Break down large features into actionable development tasks, delegate work across the pod, and monitor task progress.
• Foster high-performing team behaviors by applying agile principles, mentoring junior developers, and encouraging continuous improvement.
• Ensure code quality and technical consistency through code reviews, technical coaching, and adherence to software development best practices.
• Maintain hands-on involvement with coding, solutioning, troubleshooting, and system design.
• Ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Advocate for engineering excellence and innovation, staying current on emerging tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Act as a liaison between the engineering pod and other technical functions (e.g., architecture, security, DevOps, QA/QE).
• Lead technical delivery for member-facing data applications, incorporating principles of data engineering, data analytics, data quality, and data integrity.
• Guide the development and maintenance of scalable ingestion and ETL processes that support data applications.
• Perform other duties as required to ensure the success of the organization.

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of agile software development practices, including Scrum or Kanban.
• Proven experience with modern engineering and architectural patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps/DevSecOps practices.
• Technical proficiency in .NET, C#, REST APIs, SQL, and modern front-end frameworks.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture, cloud platforms (e.g., Azure), and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to provide leadership without formal authority, influencing and organizing work among peers.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Experience with test automation, QA/QE processes, and performance tuning preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required.
• Five (5) or more years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Prior experience as a team lead, tech lead, or similar influential technical leadership role within an agile development environment.
• Reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license.
• A combination of experience and education will be considered in lieu of education and experience requirements.

Working Environment

Work is generally performed in an indoor, professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and photocopiers. Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance is required.

Physical Activities

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Interact and accurately exchange information using verbal and non-verbal communication skills, including reading, writing, editing, conversing, and conducting internet research.
• Navigate scenarios requiring observational abilities such as perceiving, identifying, recognizing, detecting, determining, discerning, judging, assessing, estimating, and comparing.
• Remain in a sedentary position for extended periods while focusing on tasks.
• Occasionally move inside the office to access file cabinets, printers, etc.
• Operate a PC/keyboard and other office productivity equipment.
• Traverse/navigate around a typical office setting.
• Pull, push, lift, open, close, grasp, or manipulate objects up to 10 lbs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance and both short- and long-term disability.
• 401(k) plan with company match and profit-sharing.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Hybrid work schedule.
• Employee assistance program.
• Generous time off package: three weeks of vacation, 80 hours of sick time, and 11 paid holidays.
• Flexible spending account.
• On-site fitness center.
• Volunteer opportunities.
• Tuition assistance.

Pay

The approximate salary range for this position is $140,000 - $175,000, depending on the skills, education, and experience of the candidate.