Peraton is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to fill a role of a Data and Integration Engineer to support the CMS Fraud Prevention System (FPS) Program. The Data and Integration Engineer owns both the one-time integration effort that lands Peraton’s propriety tool, Rapid FI, inside the FPS operating environment and the ongoing FPS data pipelines that feed Rapid FI. Working with the FPS Innovation Lab team, this role supports the Rapid FI application tier inside the FPS AWS boundary and builds the ingestion, transformation, and delivery layer that pulls data from FPS to power Rapid FI's Medicaid and FDOC user experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish the Rapid FI data-ingestion path from FPS-authoritative sources
- Design, build, and operate the FPS data pipelines feeding Rapid FI; for example, the FPS Medicaid fraud-detection model outputs, provider/beneficiary reference data, claims history, UCM case records, historical enforcement records, and OnePI data.
- Wire Rapid FI into FPS identity, RBAC, audit, and security controls; produce the integration documentation (data-flow diagrams, control mappings) the Regulatory & Compliance Lead and CMS need.
- Run pipelines on the FPS Modeling and Analytics Platform under FPS security and governance controls, and align pipeline design with the planned FTEC data-warehouse consolidation.
- Coordinate with the Rapid FI product team on releases and operational hand-off.
- Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.
- Strong Python and/or Java development, with the other as a working competency; strong SQL.
- Deep AWS core-services experience: VPC, EC2, IAM, KMS, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, CloudWatch.
- Production Kubernetes / EKS experience.
- Solid PostgreSQL experience (RDS operational data) and experience building distributed / big-data pipelines with Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or equivalent.
- Experience wiring applications into an existing identity model (Okta SSO / RBAC) and routing audit logs to CloudWatch and Splunk.
- Experience operating inside a customer ATO boundary or comparable regulated environment (Federal / HIPAA / equivalent).
- US citizen (in US 3 of last 5 years); ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
Preferred Requirements
- Hands-on Snowflake experience: SQL, warehouses, RBAC, data shares, tasks/streams
- Hands-on Databricks experience: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, notebook and job workloads.
- Experience with GitOps (Argo CD, Helm) and IaC (Terraform); modern CI/CD practice.
- Prior integration of a commercial product into a CMS or Federal-health-agency environment.
- Prior experience with CMS data systems; for example, FPS, IDR, One PI, UCM, T-MSIS.
- Medicare and/or Medicaid claims data experience.
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience; certification preferred.
- Terragrunt for Terraform module and multi-environment management; service meshes (Istio/Linkerd), Vault or AWS Secrets Manager, zero-trust patterns.
- CMS security frameworks: CFACTS, CSRAP, FISMA/ATO artifact experience.
- Experience with rules engines (ODM/Drools) or rules-based fraud-detection models; job scheduling / process automation (Airflow, Control-M).
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and at least 12 years of experience
- Master's degree and at least 10 years of experience
- Ph.D. and at least 7 years of experience
- Strong Python and/or Java development experience, with working competency in the other language
- Strong SQL experience
- Deep experience with AWS core services, including VPC, EC2, IAM, KMS, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, and CloudWatch
- Production Kubernetes/EKS experience
- PostgreSQL experience and experience building distributed or big-data pipelines with Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or equivalent
- Experience integrating applications with identity models such as Okta SSO/RBAC and routing audit logs to CloudWatch and Splunk
- Experience operating within a customer ATO boundary or comparable regulated environment, such as Federal or HIPAA
- U.S. citizenship and residence in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Hands-on Snowflake experience
- Hands-on Databricks experience
- Experience with GitOps, Argo CD, Helm, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices
- Experience integrating commercial products into CMS or Federal health-agency environments
- Experience with CMS data systems such as FPS, IDR, One PI, UCM, or T-MSIS
- Medicare and/or Medicaid claims data experience
- Scaled Agile Framework experience; certification preferred
- Experience with Terragrunt, service meshes, Vault or AWS Secrets Manager, and zero-trust patterns
- Experience with CMS security frameworks including CFACTS, CSRAP, or FISMA/ATO artifacts
- Experience with rules engines, rules-based fraud-detection models, or job scheduling/process automation
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are positioned as robust, including PTO, holidays, paid sick days, and floating holidays, with some roles offering notably generous accrual. Leave breadth is reinforced by related programs such as short/long-term disability and bereavement leave.
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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
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