Implementation Lead
We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Project Manager – Healthcare Product Implementation & Customer Success to lead complex healthcare product implementations from technical discovery through integration, deployment, go-live, stabilization, and ongoing customer adoption.
This is not a purely coordination or PMO-focused role. The successful candidate must be technically oriented and capable of understanding solution architecture, APIs, healthcare data exchanges, integration patterns, cloud environments, security considerations, and production issues. The individual should be comfortable with technical deep dives with engineering and architecture teams while translating those discussions into clear decisions, risks, and actions for implementation teams, customer and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-end technical delivery of healthcare product implementations, from discovery and solution planning through go-live and stabilization.
- Partner with Solution Architects and Engineering teams to define the implementation architecture, integration approach, environments, data flows, and deployment dependencies.
- Drive implementations involving REST APIs, FHIR APIs, EDI transactions, batch/file integrations, and other healthcare integration patterns, as relevant to the product.
- Understand healthcare data flows and common entities such as member/patient, provider, eligibility, claims, encounters, authorization, enrollment, and clinical/administrative data.
- Possess a working understanding of modern cloud and SaaS architectures, preferably involving Microsoft Azure.
- Understand concepts such as microservices, APIs, databases, queues/events, containers, identity/access management, logging, monitoring, and CI/CD.
- Establish the overall testing and release strategy in partnership with engineering, QA, operations, and customer teams.
- Coordinate SIT, integration testing, end-to-end testing, performance testing, UAT, regression testing, and production-readiness activities.
- Facilitate solution-design and technical-governance discussions.
- Maintain alignment between contractual commitments, customer expectations, technical feasibility, and product capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of overall experience, including significant experience in technical program/project management, product implementation, solution delivery, or technology consulting.
- Proven experience leading complex enterprise SaaS or healthcare technology implementations.
- Strong technical understanding of:
- REST APIs and web services
- System integrations
- Data mapping and transformation
- SQL and relational data concepts
- Cloud/SaaS architectures
- Authentication and authorization
- Application environments and deployment lifecycles
- Logging, monitoring, and production support
- Experience working directly with architects, engineering teams, QA, DevOps, information security, and customer technology organizations.
- Ability to understand architecture and integration diagrams and drive discussions around system dependencies and information flows.
- Experience managing releases encompassing development, integration testing, UAT, production deployment, and stabilization.
- Strong technical problem-solving and analytical ability.
- Excellent executive and customer-facing communication skills.Preferred Technical Qualifications
- Hands-on or strong working knowledge of SQL for querying and validating implementation data.
- Ability to use tools such as Postman or equivalent API tools to understand/test API interactions.
- Experience with Azure or AWS cloud environments.
- Familiarity with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications, JSON and XML.
- Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps practices.
Measures of Success
Success in this role will include:
- Predictable delivery against implementation and go-live commitments
- Quality and reliability of customer integrations
- Successful completion of technical and production-readiness criteria
- Effective management of architecture, integration, data, security, and environment dependencies
- Reduction in late-stage technical surprises and go-live blockers
- Successful transition from implementation into stable production operations
- Customer adoption and satisfaction
- Effective resolution of critical customer and production issues
- Continuous improvement of implementation methods and technical delivery practices