Technical Lead

At Altarum, we’re driven by a simple but powerful mission: improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations underserved by the healthcare system. We partner with federal and state agencies to design and deliver solutions that make a real, measurable difference. 

About The Role

Altarum is seeking a Technical Lead, Learning Platforms to provide hands-on technical leadership for the Direct Care Careers (DCC) platform, a multi-tenant workforce platform connecting direct care workers with employers across participating states.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role for an experienced developer with strong web application development skills and meaningful experience working with learning management systems (LMS). You will spend significant time designing, coding, reviewing, and improving production software while guiding the day-to-day technical work of the engineering team.

You will partner closely with product and platform leadership to translate business needs into technical solutions, improve development practices, and ensure the platform remains scalable, maintainable, secure, and accessible. You will also help the team make effective use of AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering workflows.

What You'll Do

• Write, review, test, and ship production-quality code as a senior, hands-on member of the engineering team.
  Lead the day-to-day technical work of developers through code reviews, technical guidance, mentoring, and engineering standards.
• Design, build, and maintain integrations involving learning management systems, including SSO, APIs, learning content standards, and related data flows.
• Implement and maintain platform features, state-specific configurations, and reusable functionality within a shared multi-client environment.
• Partner with platform leadership on technical architecture and implementation decisions, raising risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early.
• Lead strong development practices around branching, releases, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, performance, security, and accessibility, including WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 requirements.
• Facilitate Agile team practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, and retrospectives, while helping manage sprint commitments, team capacity, and delivery goals.
• Partner with product owners and product managers to break work into clear, estimable stories and maintain a ready, prioritized backlog.
• Help remove technical blockers and identify practical solutions that keep delivery moving.
• Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, review, documentation, automation, and other appropriate development workflows.