Medicaid Eligibility & Enterprise Architecture Lead (CARES)

Location: Remote within the contiguous United States
Schedule: Must support Central Time business hours; occasional in-person client meetings/travel as needed
Type: Full-time, proposal-contingent

About the role
Alkanna Consulting is seeking a senior Medicaid Eligibility & Enterprise Architecture Lead to support Technical Advisory Services for a state eligibility and enrollment environment. This role is designed for a leader who can bridge enterprise architecture, technical governance, portfolio management, vendor operations, MITA coordination, and procurement support in a Medicaid setting. The ideal candidate will bring direct experience with eligibility systems, enterprise architecture standards, technical portfolio management, and multi-vendor technical operations.

What you will do

• Support development and execution of the CARES enterprise architecture vision, goals, and roadmap.
• Maintain and enforce enterprise architecture standards and practices related to SDLC, web service development, secure coding, and infrastructure design.
• Maintain the enterprise systems inventory, including software, hardware, and versioning.
• Review proposed vendor solutions and recommend technically sound and cost-effective approaches that meet Medicaid business needs.
• Present technology work items to leadership for review and prioritization and support budgeting and planning activities.
• Participate in governance activities involving strategic planning, risk management, and work prioritization.
• Coordinate vendor services and technical operations, including software licensing, provisioning, inter-vendor operational requests, and SLA-related performance issues.
• Serve as a technical SME in future RFP development and oversee vendor-to-subvendor work tied to support services and technical operations.
• Support MITA / State Self-Assessment activities, including architecture gap analyses and updates to MITA-related planning artifacts.

Required qualifications

• Direct experience with Medicaid eligibility/enrollment systems, enterprise architecture, or comparable state health and human services technology environments.
• Experience with enterprise architecture governance, technical roadmaps, systems inventories, and vendor solution reviews.
• Experience with MITA, State Self-Assessments, or comparable Medicaid architecture/governance frameworks.
• Experience coordinating technology portfolio activities, prioritization, budgeting/planning, and cross-functional governance.
• Experience managing multi-vendor technical operations, licensing/provisioning workflows, and SLA/performance issue resolution.
• Ability to serve as a technical SME for procurements, solution reviews, and executive briefings.
• Ability to work remotely from within the contiguous U.S. and support Central Time operations.

Preferred qualifications

• Direct experience with CARES or a comparable state eligibility and enrollment platform.
• Experience with secure coding standards, web services, infrastructure design, and SDLC governance in government environments.
• Experience supporting Medicaid procurements, vendor oversight, and inter-agency technical coordination.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project/PPM tools, Power BI, SharePoint, and Teams.

Pay: $145,000.00 - $215,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote