Bellese - Engineering Manager

• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is enhancing program integrity efforts to combat fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) within Medicare and Medicaid. The Unified Case Management (UCM) system serves as a centralized application for Program Integrity Contractors, facilitating case tracking, audits, investigations, and workload management. UCM supports coordinated efforts to prevent FWA and ensure compliance through efficient lead management, investigative actions, and reporting. As part of CMS’s modernization initiative, we are transforming UCM into a modern, scalable architecture that enhances performance, security, and usability. This effort includes migrating to cloud-based solutions, improving system interoperability, and adopting cutting-edge technologies to streamline workflows and improve data-driven decision-making. Our goal is to ensure a more robust, efficient, and future-ready platform for program integrity operations. • Manage a team of software and QA engineers (currently 8), fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. • Monitor team performance and provide regular feedback, coaching, and career development to team members through regular one-on-ones. • Drive efficient processes and standards to enable team success and maintain high engineering standards. • Participate in resource planning and recruitment activities to scale the engineering team as necessary. • Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and positive team culture. • Leverage test-driven development to deliver backend systems and user interfaces to ease development and integration between them. • Contribute to the development of APIs, specifications, and data models, facilitating integration with frontend applications and third-party systems. • Design, implement, and maintain data interactions. Optimize data operations for performance and scalability, and ensure data integrity and security. • Design and develop user interfaces, informed by UX designs that meet customer needs. • Understand and contribute to functional and non-functional automated testing suites. • You foster a collaborative ethos, driven by the mission to deliver exceptional customer service to clients. You are passionate about Healthcare and changing the healthcare landscape. You’re an out of the box thinker, always striving to know the “why” when it comes to building solutions. You excel in a team-oriented, remote-first environment characterized by mutual respect and open communication. Your adaptability and ability to navigate challenges ensure your success in any situation. • $138,600 - $163,300 a year • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment form but do not replace human judgement. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.