DESCRIPTION

Living the vision of “Advancing the business of healthcare today for a better tomorrow,” Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) works to perpetuate success throughout the healthcare industry as the premier association for professionals who lead medical practices. Since 1926, through data, people, insights, and advocacy, MGMA empowers medical group practices to innovate and create meaningful change in healthcare. We believe the future is what you make it, and we’re here to support the people who are ready to make the world a better place. Tomorrow will be remarkable because MGMA is here to help.
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA is looking for an DevOps and Developer Experience Lead to join our Denver/hybrid team.
The DevOps and Developer Experience Lead serves as the technical leader for Developer Enablement, providing direction, technical leadership, and execution oversight over various DevEx/DevOps initiatives, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, alerting, and more. The Product Engineering Lead partners closely with engineering leadership and other engineering teams to co-own their roadmap, enable high-quality technical delivery, and guide engineering best practices. While not a formal people manager, this role leads by influence and is responsible for helping delegate, structure, and monitor engineering work in a collaborative, agile environment. The role requires strong technical expertise, communication skills, and a commitment to excellence across delivery, architecture, and engineering practices.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Advanced understanding of agile software development practices, including Scrum or Kanban.
• Proven experience with modern engineering and architectural patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and DevEx/DevOps/DevSecOps practices.
• Technical proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, tooling, and automation.
• Expertise cloud platforms (e.g., Azure) and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to provide leadership without formal authority, influencing and organizing work among peers.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Experience with test automation, QA/QE processes, and performance tuning preferred.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required. Equivalent experience may be considered

EXPERIENCE:

• Five (5) or more years of hands-on DevEx/DevOps experience.
• Prior experience as a team lead, tech lead, or similar influential technical leadership role within an agile development environment.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS/LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

• Must have reliable transportation.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
  A combination of experience and education will be considered in lieu of education and experience requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Serve as the technical lead for DevEx, DevOps, and DevSecOps, providing day-to-day direction and guidance to developers and other contributors.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership and other engineers to co-develop the Developer Enablement technical roadmap, helping to define priorities, estimate work, and ensure alignment with engineering objectives.
• Own and evolve the tooling, pipelines, and practices that support the entire software development lifecycle.
• Partner with other Engineering Leads to ensure consistency, scalability, and shared standards across teams.
• Own technical delivery and ensure development is executed according to agreed standards, timelines, and architectural guidelines.
• Break down large features into actionable development tasks, delegate work across the team, and monitor task progress.
• Foster high-performing team behaviors by applying agile principles, mentoring junior developers, and encouraging continuous improvement.
• Ensure code quality and technical consistency through code reviews, technical coaching, and adherence to DevEx/DevOps best practices.
• Maintain hands-on involvement with coding, solutioning, troubleshooting, and system design.
• Ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Advocate for engineering excellence and innovation, staying current on emerging tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Other duties as required and necessary to ensure the success of the organization.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work is generally performed in an indoor, professional office environment.
• Will need to attend conferences and MGMA events around the country.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, fax machines, and scanners.
• Regular, predictable attendance is required

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by employees in this role, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly required to successfully interact and accurately exchange information using the following suite of verbal and non-verbal communication skills critical to expressing oneself and conducting professional interactions on behalf of the business:

• Ability to read, write, edit
• Ability to converse, discuss, convey
• Also includes interactive engagement with software applications, computer graphics, and the ability to conduct internet research

While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly required to successfully navigate scenarios requiring the following observational abilities:

• Ability to perceive, identify, recognize
• Ability to detect, determine, discern, judge
• Ability to assess, estimate, compar

This is a largely sedentary role, so employee must be able to remain in a sedentary position while focusing for extended periods of time throughout the workday. Position also requires occasional movement inside the office to access file cabinets, printers, etc. While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly required to successfully navigate scenarios requiring the following operational abilities:

• Ability to operate PC/keyboard and other office productivity equipment
• Ability to position self to traverse/navigate around typical office setting
• Ability pull/push, lift, open/close, grasp/manipulate, transport up to 10 lbs