VP, Platform Engineering

Overview

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A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

A Little About You

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you\'ve learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you\'ve gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview

The VP of Platform Engineering is responsible for leading the modernization of the Zelis Price platform over the next three years. The Price platform supports products that optimize healthcare pricing and payment accuracy to ensure fair and transparent transactions between payers and providers. This role focuses on building a modern, scalable architecture to support the growth of the Price business, enabling product innovation and operational efficiency. In the role, you will drive the transformation of the platform into a state-of-the-art solution that includes a robust API marketplace, a robust data layer, and a modern app framework to consolidate multiple portals. You will the integration of AI and data into the platform, ensuring the engineering team harnesses data-driven insights and builds AI-driven solutions that enhance the platform’s capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technology Modernization and Platform Scalability

• Lead the end-to-end modernization of the Zelis Price platform, transforming it into a highly scalable, reliable, and secure solution that supports rapid growth and evolving customer needs.
• Architect and implement a modular, scalable architecture that can handle large transaction volumes, real-time processing, and high availability, ensuring 24 / 7 / 365 operational readiness.
• Develop a state-of-the-art API marketplace, enabling seamless integrations with third-party applications, partners, and customers.
• Build a modern App framework to consolidate multiple customer-facing portals, streamlining user experience and enabling faster delivery of new features and updates.
• Implement a data fabric to unify data across the organization, enabling real-time data processing, advanced analytics, and AI-driven insights.
• Design and implement an event-driven architecture to enhance the platform’s responsiveness, enabling real-time event processing, automation, and notification systems.

2. AI and Data Strategy

3. Enabling Product Engineering and Collaboration

4. Leading the Technology Transformation

5. Building and Leading High-Performing Teams

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration

7. Operational Excellence and Risk Management

Qualifications

Key Competencies

Why This Role Matters

The VP, Platform Engineering is central to leading the modernization of the Zelis Price platform, ensuring it becomes a scalable, reliable, and innovative solution capable of supporting the company’s growth and evolving business needs. This role is critical in enabling product teams, supporting the business’s long-term goals, and positioning the Price platform as a market leader in terms of technology, functionality, and customer experience.

By driving the three-year modernization agenda, this role will ensure that the platform is ready for future growth while integrating AI, data analytics, and a modern development framework that will drive operational efficiencies and business value.

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

We have offices in Atlanta GA, Boston MA, Morristown NJ, Plano TX, St. Louis MO, St. Petersburg FL, and Hyderabad, India. We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture, and all our employee's work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership team. In-office work and activities, if applicable, vary based on the work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

Base Salary Range

$224,000.00 - $299,000.00

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors, including experience, education, qualifications, as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills, etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package, which may also include discretionary bonus plans, commissions, or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis’ full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees’ health, well-being, and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match, flexible paid time off, holidays, parental leaves, life and disability insurance, and health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all.

Accessibility Support

We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and / or interview process, please email TalentAcquisition@zelis.com.

Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, duties, and skills from time to time.

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