Software Engineering, Senior Advisor

Peraton is a national security and enterprise IT company delivering mission-critical solutions and technologies for government agencies and the U.S. armed forces. The Senior Software Engineering Advisor will serve as a Data and Integration Engineer for the CMS Fraud Prevention System, integrating the Rapid FI tool, building and operating data pipelines, and supporting application integration within a regulated AWS environment.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• 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)