Platform Team Lead

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Company Overview:

NationsBenefits is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America and a Healthcare Fintech provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and member engagement solutions. We partner with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions that drive growth, improve outcomes, reduce costs, and bring value to their members.

Through our comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, fintech payment platforms, and member engagement solutions, we help health plans deliver high-quality benefits to their members that address the social determinants of health and improve member health outcomes and satisfaction.

Our compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary technology systems, and premier service delivery model allow our health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members.

We offer a fulfilling work environment that attracts top talent and encourages all associates to contribute to delivering premier service to internal and external customers alike. Our goal is to transform the healthcare industry for the better! We provide career advancement opportunities from within the organization across multiple locations in the US, South America, and India.

About the Role:

Platform Team Lead

This is a critical, high-impact role for someone who enjoys creating elegant internal platforms, driving cultural and technical change, and solving engineering friction with code.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform & Tooling Enablement

• Lead the design, development, and adoption of internal tooling and platforms to improve the software development lifecycle.
• Drive the transition from Azure DevOps to GitHub and GitHub Actions, in collaboration with the DevOps team.
• Deliver standardized, reusable CI/CD pipeline templates and deployment strategies.

Developer Experience & Productivity

• Identify pain points in the developer experience and implement tooling to remove bottlenecks.
• Provide self-service capabilities and reusable modules for build, test, deploy, and infrastructure workflows.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with engineering, operations, QA, and change management teams to ensure tooling and processes meet multi-functional needs.
• Evangelize best practices in software development (e.g., observability, testing, shift-left security).
• Create internal feedback loops to continuously improve enablement initiatives.

Leadership & Strategy

• Build, mentor, and manage a team of enablement engineers and platform developers.
• Establish success metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, internal NPS) and continuously optimize for outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or DevOps, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Azure services.
• Solid background in CI/CD pipeline development, platform engineering, or developer tools.
• Fullstack development experience (.NET, C#, Java, TypeScript, Python, or similar).
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration a strong plus.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience working in large-scale, cloud-native environments with distributed teams.
• Passion for developer experience, productivity, and continuous improvement.