Senior Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are

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.

Who You Are

As a Staff Engineer L6, you lead development across Inovalon products and platforms with a focus on solving resiliency, scale, and security challenges at a higher level of technical sophistication. You serve as a functional lead and subject matter expert, helping guide engineering execution across teams while raising discipline, productivity, and technical quality. In this role, you partner with business stakeholders, architecture leads, and engineers to deliver scalable data solutions, strengthen platform reliability, and drive a collaborative, data-driven engineering culture.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable healthcare data pipelines and data access patterns that support Inovalon products and platforms.

• Research, evaluate, and apply new technologies, tools, and frameworks focused on high volume data processing in AWS and cloud based environments.

• Design and implement distributed data processing pipelines using tools and languages common in the big data ecosystem.

• Document technical designs, estimate scope, and help define implementation approaches for complex engineering initiatives.

• Drive a culture of collaborative reviews across designs, code, and test plans to improve quality, consistency, and engineering discipline.

• Partner with business stakeholders and architecture engineering leads to ensure high quality solutions are delivered and engineering standard methodologies are followed.

• Advance DevOps practices by utilizing and improving continuous integration and deployment frameworks, including automated pipelines with multi stage validation.

• Solve complex data and platform issues through root cause analysis, and work across teams to resolve operational and performance problems.

• Provide strong technical leadership by raising the technical bar, fostering a data and results driven culture, and building trust and collaboration across teams.

• Influence and coach junior engineers within and outside your team, communicate effectively across disciplines, and support on call responsibilities for critical issue resolution.

What You'll Need

• 15+ years of industrial experience with cloud and serverless technologies.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

• Hands on experience with AWS, Azure DevOps CI/CD, test orchestration, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.

• Experience implementing fully automated pipelines with multi stage validation.

• Familiarity with SQL Server, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL, especially test data creation, schema validation, and data quality automation.

• Proven ability to drive test automation maturity, reduce manual testing, eliminate flakiness, and improve reliability through automation, monitoring, proactive stability improvements, and automated alerting.

• Proficiency in test automation for microservices, containerized environments, and orchestrated systems including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Demonstrate growth potential and learning agility by evaluating emerging tools and frameworks, expanding expertise across cloud, data, and automation domains, and applying new learning to improve engineering outcomes.

• Demonstrate leadership by setting technical direction, aligning teams on goals and timelines, coaching engineers, and influencing high quality execution across functions and teams.

• Demonstrate adaptability by responding effectively to changing technologies, priorities, and operational demands while maintaining focus on delivery, resiliency, and quality.

• Demonstrate creative thinking by identifying innovative ways to solve scale, security, reliability, and automation challenges across products and platforms.

• Demonstrate analytical skills by performing root cause analysis, assessing data and system issues, and using evidence to improve performance, quality, and operational stability.

• Nice to have: Experience with service meshes and asynchronous or event streaming systems such as Kafka, SQS, and SNS; advanced performance testing and benchmarking experience with k6, JMeter, or Gatling; security automation experience including vulnerability scanning, static analysis, and secrets validation; experience leading organization wide automation transformations, platform migrations, or quality initiatives.

Our Shared Commitments

• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement;

• Adhere to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position; and

• Fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of Employer.

Work Environment

• This is primarily a computer-based role performed in a remote, hybrid, or office environment. The role requires prolonged periods of computer use and frequent communication and interaction with others, either virtually and/or in person. The role may occasionally require transporting or moving work-related equipment weighing up to 10 pounds, such as a laptop and related materials. Some travel may be required, depending on the needs of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position, consistent with applicable law.

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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Work Location: If the US position is listed as remote, employees who reside within a 40-mile radius of one of our office locations in Tampa, FL; Canonsburg, PA; or Bowie, MD will follow a hybrid work schedule and are expected to work in the office two days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays).