Data Conversion Lead

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the design and development of complex software applications from business requirements in collaboration with other team members

- Investigate new solutions, tools, products, and techniques to incorporate into coding standards.

- Troubleshoot complex issues and produce detailed proposals to resolve.

- Support testing and remediate defects

- Guide, coach, and mentor entry and mid-level developers

Key Responsibilities:

-Lead end to end Medicaid data conversion efforts, including planning, design, development, testing, and execution

- Establish conversion strategies for migrating data between Medicaid systems while minimizing operational risk

- Provide technical leadership to development teams

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for conversion-related decisions and issue resolution

- Development & Technical Execution

- Design and develop data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL/ELT) processes for large, complex datasets

-Develop transformation logic to map legacy Medicaid data models to target system structures

- Ensure conversion programs follow coding standards, performance expectations, and security practices

- Review code, validate transformation rules, and oversee defect remediation

- Optimize conversion performance to support high volume Medicaid datasets

- Medicaid Domain Expertise

- Lead conversion of core Medicaid data domains

- Ensure conversions meet CMS, state Medicaid, and contractual requirements

- Support regulatory, audit, and certification activities related to converted data

- Testing, Validation & Reconciliation

- Define and oversee data validation, reconciliation, and sign off processes

- Partner with business, compliance, and QA teams to confirm completeness and accuracy

- Ensure converted data supports downstream reporting, operations, and compliance needs

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in related field.
- 7-10 years of relevant professional experience required.

- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.

Program Specific Requirements

- Bachelor's degree

- 5+ years of hands-on development experience, with significant experience leading data conversions

- Strong experience working with Medicaid data and healthcare systems

- Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

- Experience building ETL/ELT processes using custom code or integration tools

- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Program Specific Preferences

- Experience migrating data between state Medicaid systems platforms

- Experience supporting system certification, readiness reviews, or go live activities

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