Technical Lead, Learning Platforms

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.

- Help establish responsible and effective standards for the team’s use of AI development tools.

- Integrate identity and access solutions using technologies and standards such as Auth0, OIDC, SAML, or similar approaches.

- Clearly communicate and present technical decisions, implementation progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including product, program, executive, client, and state-agency audiences.

- Contribute technical input to estimates, solutioning, build-versus-buy decisions, and future platform capabilities.

- Document technical decisions and implementations so knowledge is shared across the team and does not depend on any one individual.

What You'll Bring

- 7+ years of professional software development experience, with significant recent hands-on coding experience.

- Strong experience developing and maintaining production web applications using modern development technologies and frameworks.

- Hands-on experience with PHP and the ability to work effectively across multiple technologies and languages as needed.

- Strong experience building, extending, or integrating learning management systems (LMS) , including APIs, SSO, learning content standards, and related data flows.

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