System Operations Manager, Principal

System Operations Manager, Principal

Location:

Any city, LA, US, 99999

Work Mode:
Virtual (Exception only)

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.

The Gainwell Systems Manager is a strategic, technical, and operational leader accountable for the performance, availability, modernization, and delivery of all systems supporting the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) and related enterprise services. This role drives IT service management (ITSM) maturity, ensures seamless operations, and enforces governance over system changes, incidents, and escalations.
As a core member of the account leadership team, the Systems Manager owns system health, enforces escalation and ownership protocols, and ensures all systems and services are optimized, secure, and aligned with contractual and business outcomes. This role is not a traditional Project Manager or HR People Manager, but is accountable for the systems team’s technical delivery, excellence, and cross‑functional coordination.

- Own end-to-end Gainwell system availability, performance monitoring, and operational continuity.
- Enforce defined escalation paths across L1–L5 tiers, ensuring no ownership gaps.
- Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions for all major incidents (P1/P2).

- Maximize system updates, patches, and troubleshooting efforts.

- Responsible for defect tracking (PROD and non‑PROD).
- Ensure system observability and lead rapid triage during outages or degradation events.
- Maintain operational compliance with HIPAA, state/federal policies, and internal audit controls.

- Guide infrastructure modernization initiatives such as cloud‑readiness, refactoring, virtualization, and platform reengineering.
- Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to align with SOA, Dev Ops, and enterprise integration best practices.

- Implement security best practices, including access controls, data protection, SOC audits, and help with disaster recovery planning and execution.

- Coordinate with teams to remediate Security Vulnerabilities across systems.

- Champion technical innovation and recommend solutions to increase scalability, security, and automation.

- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of ITSM processes, leveraging the ITIL4 framework.
- Supervise Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management across all system tiers.

- Responsible for MIM reporting and communication.
- Own, define and monitor KPIs and SLAs for service quality, proactively driving improvements.
- Manage second‑level support teams and coordinate with L1 providers for seamless escalation and response workflows.

- Promote support to Release team for successful releases to build on project deliverables and compliance to client timelines.

- Oversee annual DR exercise.

- Support annual SOC audit.

- Lead technical planning for system initiatives, migrations, upgrades, and risk mitigation efforts.
- Understands Gainwell Technologies Policies and Procedures.
- Provide weekly defect reporting and change requests.

- Work closely with PMO for weekly/monthly reporting.
- Participate in project governance, CAB, and readiness assessments for production deployment approvals.
- Ensure successful alignment of technical execution with contractual obligations, security audits, and disaster recovery objectives.

- Act as the primary systems liaison to client leaders (e.g., CDL, DHS, AGM),…