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Python Tech Lead Healthcare RCM Automation

Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Work Mode: Work from Office
Working Hours: UK Shift
Experience: 5 to 7 Years

Key Skills: Python, FastAPI, REST API, EDI, X12 835/837, RCM, SQL, Workflow Orchestration, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Python Tech Lead to join a high-ownership engineering team building a Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Automation Platform for a healthcare provider.

This is a greenfield product development opportunity where you will contribute across backend services, EDI processing, workflow orchestration, REST APIs, and operational UI components. The role requires end-to-end ownership of modules in a lean engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

Core Platform Development

• Design, build, and maintain core platform services, including configuration management, logging, health checks, secrets management, and telemetry.
• Develop processing pipelines with staged processing, retries, dead-letter queues, and robust error handling.
• Own modules from design through implementation, testing, documentation, and production handover.

EDI Processing

• Build EDI ingestion and processing capabilities for X12 835 and 837 transactions.
• Parse EDI files into structured transaction models.
• Validate ISA/GS/ST envelopes and implement enrichment rules.
• Develop resilient parsing logic for companion-guide variations.
• Implement normalization, payer-ID resolution, and CARC/RARC enrichment.

Data Mapping & Integration

• Develop configuration-driven mapping logic to convert parsed transactions into canonical data models.
• Build reliable file-processing workflows with idempotency, retries, and dead-letter handling.
• Implement SFTP automation, PGP encryption, and third-party integrations.

Orchestration & Workflow

• Design transaction lifecycle state machines and content-based routing.
• Implement exception queues, retry mechanisms, escalation workflows, and scheduled jobs.
• Develop event-driven and time-based orchestration components.

API Development

• Design and develop REST APIs using FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Implement OAuth2/JWT authentication and role-based authorization.
• Support API versioning, pagination, and schema validation.

Full-Stack Contribution

• Contribute to operational UI development, including dashboards, monitoring views, configuration management, exception handling, transaction viewers, and audit/activity logs.

Engineering Excellence

• Write and maintain automated tests.
• Ensure PHI-safe logging practices.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and backlog refinement.
• Perform cross-module collaboration and interface reviews.
• Use AI-assisted coding tools responsibly while validating domain-critical logic.

Technical Skills

Core Python Engineering

• 57 years of production-grade Python development.
• Strong understanding of Python typing, packaging, Async I/O, and Pytest.
• Experience developing production REST APIs using FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, and Pydantic or equivalent schema validation.

Pipeline & Integration Engineering

• Experience with message queues, retry and idempotency patterns, dead-letter queues, and high-volume batch/file processing.
• Hands-on experience with SFTP automation and PGP encryption.
• Strong SQL schema design and query optimization skills.

Orchestration & Scheduling

• Experience with workflow and state-machine design.
• Knowledge of Celery, APScheduler, Cron-based scheduling, and event-driven processing.

Cross-Cutting Engineering Skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
• Experience with structured logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
• Ability to work across multiple modules in a lean engineering team.

AI-Assisted Development

• Daily experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or similar tools.
• Ability to use AI for boilerplate generation, test generation, code review, and development productivity.
• Strong judgment to validate AI-generated code and domain-specific logic against requirements.

Domain Expertise

Healthcare EDI

• Knowledge of X12 835 – Remittance Advice and X12 837 – Healthcare Claims.
• Understanding of ISA/GS/ST envelo…