Technical Lead, Learning Platforms

At

Altarum

, we’re driven by a simple but powerful mission: improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations underserved by the healthcare system. We partner with federal and state agencies to design and deliver solutions that make a real, measurable difference.

About The Role

What You'll Do

• Write, review, test, and ship production-quality code as a senior, hands-on member of the engineering team.
  Lead the day-to-day technical work of developers through code reviews, technical guidance, mentoring, and engineering standards.
• Design, build, and maintain integrations involving learning management systems, including SSO, APIs, learning content standards, and related data flows.
• Implement and maintain platform features, state-specific configurations, and reusable functionality within a shared multi-client environment.
• Partner with platform leadership on technical architecture and implementation decisions, raising risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early.
• Lead strong development practices around branching, releases, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, performance, security, and accessibility, including WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 requirements.
• Facilitate Agile team practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, and retrospectives, while helping manage sprint commitments, team capacity, and delivery goals.
• Partner with product owners and product managers to break work into clear, estimable stories and maintain a ready, prioritized backlog.
• Help remove technical blockers and identify practical solutions that keep delivery moving.
• Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, review, documentation, automation, and other appropriate development workflows.
• Help establish responsible and effective standards for the team’s use of AI development tools.
• Integrate identity and access solutions using technologies and standards such as Auth0, OIDC, SAML, or similar approaches.
• Clearly communicate and present technical decisions, implementation progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including product, program, executive, client, and state-agency audiences.
• Contribute technical input to estimates, solutioning, build-versus-buy decisions, and future platform capabilities.
• Document technical decisions and implementations so knowledge is shared across the team and does not depend on any one individual.

What You'll Bring

What Will Set You Apart

Why Join Our Team?

Where You'll Work

Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system.  We work primarily on behalf of federal and state governments to design and implement solutions that achieve measurable results.  We combine our expertise in public health and health care delivery with technology development and implementation, practice transformation, training and technical assistance, quality improvement, data analytics, and applied research and evaluation. Our innovative solutions and proven processes lead to better value and health for all.  

Altarum is an equal opportunity employer that provides employment and opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Compensation: USD 126,005 – 152,075.7 per year salary