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Tarpon Health is a healthcare automation company that helps providers optimize their operations through technology. We bring together healthcare providers with like-minded organizations to accelerate automation in the revenue cycle. Our community of experts and peers helps teams overcome expertise and capacity constraints to build automations that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve patient experience.

Title: Automation Developer Team Lead

Department: Automation Delivery

Reports to: Director of Automation and AI

Location: Remote

 

Job Summary:

The Automation Developer Team Lead is responsible for developing and maintaining automations, managing and leading a team of Tarpon automation developers, and serving as a key technical advisor across Tarpon clients.

 

This role is split between hands-on automation development and leading a team of developers. Success requires a blend of technical expertise, problem-solving ability, and strong communication skills, with a focus on automation technologies such as RPA, APIs, OCR, and agentic AI.

 

Responsibilities:

Client Automation Development

• Utilize industry-leading automation tools such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and/or Microsoft to build, test, deploy, and maintain efficient and scalable automation solutions
• Develop, document, refine, test, and deploy automation solutions utilizing the most appropriate technologies (RPA, API, OCR, etc.) and techniques
• Design and build agentic AI automation solutions that combine LLMs, RPA, and orchestration frameworks to handle multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention, and guide the team in applying these approaches
• Additional techniques include but are not limited to REFramework, managing credentials, queuing, logging, information storage, exception management, scheduling
• Minimize automation downtime through monitoring automations, maintenance, analytics, and robust exception handling
• Educate clients and train new developers on automation platforms and technologies
• Support Tarpon engagements as a key technical advisor. Includes: joining adhoc client meetings, reviewing infrastructure and platform setup, and ensuring coding best practices are being followed

 

Technical Oversight

• Continuously improve knowledge of relevant technologies and business processes
• Support the Tarpon community content and education with automation expertise; this includes, but is not limited to:
• Developing / editing assets (how-to-guides, templates, etc.) supporting various automation scenarios
• Sharing technical knowledge about automation topics during virtual events
• Stay up-to-date on emerging automation technologies and industry trends
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and data security standards

 

Team Leadership and Resource Management

• Lead and mentor a team of automation developers, providing technical guidance, training, and performance feedback to maintain high standards
• Partner closely with other Tarpon Automation Developer Team Leads to align on team priorities, share capacity and workload, resolve cross-team dependencies, and ensure both teams are progressing toward shared goals
• Support sprint planning across all Tarpon clients. Includes: developing sprint plans and/or reviewing sprint plans created by Solution Architects
• Support the Director of Automation Development with strategic initiatives and innovation

 

Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience developing automation solutions using UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Power Automate, or similar platforms
• Demonstrated experience building with LLMs, including prompt engineering, function calling, tool use, and agent orchestration
• Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex
• Proficiency in Python and/or C# for integration, scripting, and custom component development
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, and system integration patterns
• Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows
• Experience in Revenue Cycle and/or healthcare-related industries
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently on complex or ambiguous problems across both RPA and agentic AI solution types
• Comfort working in a client-facing, consulting-style environment

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role
• Familiarity with RAG architectures, vector databases, and document intelligence tools
• Proficiency in SQL report development
• Experience with additional programming languages, such as C++, Java, or JavaScript
• Experience with a major EMR/EHR platform such as Epic, Cerner, or AthenaHealth, including integration via healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR)
• Familiarity with common healthcare EDI transactions such as 835 and 277

 

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to meet the needs of the organization.