Gainwell Technologies

Principal, Database Architect

Gainwell Technologies  •  $119k - $170k/yr  •  Tennessee (Remote)  •  1 hour ago
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Job Description

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

Summary

As an MMIS Data Architect at Gainwell, you will design and govern data architectures supporting large-scale Medicaid system implementations and modernizations. You will partner with conversion teams, application architects, analysts, developers, and state clients to ensure data is structured, integrated, validated, and optimized across MMIS and modular Medicaid Enterprise (MES) environments.

Your role in our mission

  • Design and define MMIS data architecture standards supporting data conversion, integration, reporting, and downstream operational use.
  • Guide data transformation strategies from legacy MMIS platforms to modern solutions ensuring integrity, scalability, and performance.
  • Leverage AI-assisted and intelligent automation techniques to accelerate data design, profiling, validation, reconciliation, and documentation workflows while maintaining strong governance and human review.
  • Collaborate with data conversion managers, architects, analysts, and developers to align conversion design with target-state architecture.
  • Establish and maintain data architecture artifacts including source-to-target mappings, canonical models, data dictionaries, and governance standards.
  • Ensure data designs support CMS requirements, audit readiness, reporting needs, and operational performance expectations.
  • Define integration patterns and data flows between MMIS modules, analytics platforms, and external systems.
  • Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to ensure alignment with hosting, security, and performance standards.

What we're looking for

  • 9+ years of experience in data architecture or large-scale data platform design, preferably within Medicaid, MMIS, or public sector healthcare systems.
  • Experience supporting data conversion or data migration initiatives, including source-to-target design and validation strategies.
  • 3+ years of experience applying AI-assisted or intelligent automation capabilities to accelerate data workflows within governed enterprise environments.
  • Foundational understanding of cloud infrastructure and cloud networking protocols, including firewalls, routing, and network storage.
  • Experience working across the full software development life cycle (SDLC) in large, complex implementation programs.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex data concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you should expect in this role

  • United States remote opportunity
  • Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
  • The Deadline to submit applications for this posting is October 14, 2026

The pay range for this position is $118,800.00 - $169,700.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.

Gainwell Technologies

About Gainwell Technologies

For 50 years, our nation’s federal Medicaid program has worked to improve the health, safety and well-being of America’s most vulnerable populations: low-income families, women and children, seniors, and those with disabilities. With positive health and cost outcomes that pierce inequities and impact economies, the success of these programs is inextricably tied to the prosperity of communities, individual states and the nation as a whole. We think that demands respect and, more importantly, is deserving of a lifetime commitment from innovators who can help those who operate within and around health and human services evolve — in any market at any stage. At Gainwell Technologies, that’s our sole focus.

Built across more than five decades, Gainwell has intentionally seized opportunities to advance its digitally enabled services to meet agencies, health plans and MCOs where they are on their modernization journeys and propel them into the future of public health. Our commitment to innovation, deep experience and ability to leverage insights from customers across 50 states has allowed us to expand on next-generation, cloud-enabled technologies.

Today, Gainwell offers one of the most comprehensive suites of scalable services and solutions on the market — all proven to deliver cost savings, better patient outcomes and an improved provider experience. Equally important to our expanding technologies and results: We bring ideas that bring policies to life.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
United States
Year Founded
Unknown
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