The following candidates have been thoroughly vetted by Paragon's recruitment team and come highly recommended. This is just a snapshot of candidates actively seeking new roles, if you're seeking a specific skillset, we're ready to help! Contact us today.
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Business Analyst
Contract l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- 15+ years of BA experience across insurance, financial services, healthcare, agriculture, and technology
- Strong experience gathering and documenting business/technical requirements, use cases, current-state processes, and functional specifications
- Experience as a Scrum Master/Business Analyst coordinating Agile Scrum/DevOps activities
- Has worked with product owners, development teams, business stakeholders, and technical teams in Agile environments
- Experience with creating test plans, test cases, UAT, and validation processes
Senior Technical Lead / Cloud Engineer
Contract l On-Site, Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- AWS migrations, cloud-native architecture, ECS/EKS, Lambda, Terraform/CloudFormation
- Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, React, Node.js, TypeScript
- Event-driven architecture, Kafka, APIs, enterprise integrations
- Architecture, CI/CD, production reliability, mentoring, and distributed team leadership
Product Manager / Owner
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- Product & Backlog Management – Jira, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement and prioritization
- Agile Delivery – Sprint planning, standups, cross-functional coordination, and release readiness
- Translates business needs into actionable requirements for engineering teams
- 10+ years across QA, UAT, API testing, defect management and production releases
Senior Project Manager / Senior Program Manager
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- Technical delivery leader with 13+ years of experience driving complex technology, digital, and enterprise initiatives from strategy through execution and measurable outcomes
- Known for bringing structure to complex environments, aligning cross-functional teams, creating accountability, and keeping work moving through ambiguity and organizational change
- Experienced leading Agile delivery, multi-team planning and road mapping, with a strong focus on execution, stakeholder alignment, risk and dependency management, team performance, customer value creation, and outcomes reporting and continuous improvement
Observability / Monitoring Manager
Contract l On-Site, Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- Expert in Dynatrace
- Full-stack AWS Observability (integrating Dynatrace with AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS) and CloudWatch Logs to provide unified visibility
- Proven ability to integrate disparate tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira) into a cohesive monitoring framework
- Log and metric standardization
- Hands-on experience with Bash scripting and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate monitoring agent deployments and streamline onboarding for new applications
Principal Software Engineer & Architect
Contract l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Cloud Cost Optimization, Innovation Delivery, Security & Compliance, DevOps
- Leadership, Mentorship & Team Growth
- Deep expertise in C#, .NET, Blazor, Azure, and Kubernetes
Senior Business Systems Analyst / Business Systems & Technology Professional
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l On-Site, Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- 20+ years bridging business needs and enterprise technology
- Strong Business Systems Analysis, requirements, and process improvement experience
- Managed multiple concurrent initiatives, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders
- Experienced with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Jira
- Led enterprise modernization, implementation, and technology lifecycle initiatives
- Strong technical background with SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Linux, Windows, and Azure
- Improved project completion time by 15% and team efficiency by 20%
- Strong financial-services experience with risk, governance, compliance, and operational resilience
- Experienced leading cross-functional teams and mentoring technical staff
QA Architect
Contract-to-Hire or Full-Time l On-Site, Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- CI/CD & DevOps Automation – GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions; enterprise pipeline optimization
- QA Engineering & Test Automation – Python, TypeScript, Playwright, Pytest; scalable automation frameworks
- Datadog, New Relic, Checkly; performance and monitoring optimization
- Cross-functional leadership across large engineering teams; release quality and continuous improvement
IT Delivery Leader / Manager
Contract-to-Hire or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Has led cross-functional DevOps, cloud, data, architecture, and QA teams
- Data & Analytics Transformation - Data platforms, data science, integration, and warehouse modernization
- Enterprise infrastructure, application and cloud transformation initiatives
- Agile coaching, roadmaps, process improvement and delivery optimization
Senior Software Engineer (.NET)
Contract l On-Site, Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- .NET Development
- Application Enhancement & Feature Development
- Requirements Gathering & Business Collaboration
- Cloud & Azure Experience (Azure – SQL, Key Vault, Blob Storage, Container Apps, Bicep for IaC, API Management)
- SQL Server & Backend Data Development
Senior ETL Developer / Senior Data Engineer / ETL Lead
Contract l On-Site, Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- 15+ years of ETL, data warehousing, data integration, and BI experience
- Strong Informatica, Talend, Azure Data Factory, SQL, and AWS background
- Extensive experience building and supporting enterprise ETL/data warehouse solutions
- Hands-on experience with Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, and DB2
- Led Azure migration efforts involving Talend, Oracle, Salesforce, and Azure databases
- Strong data integration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and automation experience
- Translates business requirements into technical solutions and delivery plans
- Improved development/performance by 20%+ through ETL optimization and tuning
Lead Systems & Automation Engineer
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer
- 8 years of experience architecting, engineering, administering, and automating enterprise Microsoft 365 environments across MSP and enterprise organizations
- Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Entra ID, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, Exchange Online, and Microsoft 365 governance and security
Senior Platform Engineer
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Iowa
- Senior Platform Engineer with 10+ years in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation
- Hands-on AWS and Azure experience spanning IAM (roles, policies, OIDC federation), ECR, ECS/Fargate, Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store, CloudWatch, S3, and VPC networking
- Experienced building GitHub Actions pipelines and deployment automation
- Proficient in PowerShell, Bash, and Python
- Azure literacy across ACR, AKS, Key Vault, Managed Identities, and Azure DevOps
- Active Claude Code user in professional engineering workflows; experienced in critically reviewing AI-assisted changes and validating them against test harnesses and evaluation criteria
- Maintains continuous Markdown and human-readable documentation throughout migration and configuration work, preserving state across iterations and enabling non-interrupted handoffs
Senior Software Engineer (.NET)
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Remote l Located in Iowa
- Senior .Net / Full-Stack Developer
- More than 20 years of software development experience designing, developing, modernizing, and supporting enterprise web applications for federal, state, and commercial organizations
- Extensive experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework, modern .NET (.NET 6–10), REST APIs, Razor, Blazor, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure, and Azure DevOps
- Experience in AI Development and Legacy Modernization
- Technical Lead
- Active Security Clearance
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Arizona
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling automated testing solutions for enterprise web applications, APIs, and Salesforce platforms
- Designed & Maintained scalable UI Automation frameworks
- Led transition of manual QA Engineers to Automation Engineers
- Proven expertise in developing robust automation frameworks, integrating quality engineering into CI/CD pipelines
- Led automation initiatives that improve software quality and accelerate release cycles
- AI Assisted development tools
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Arizona
- AWS & Serverless Architecture – Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS/Fargate
- Node.js & TypeScript Development – Enterprise backend services, REST/GraphQL APIs and integrations
- Distributed systems, real-time workflows, scalability and resiliency
- Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Docker and monitoring/observability
SQL DBA
Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time l Hybrid or Remote l Located in Texas l Open to Relocate
- Proven Paragon Consultant
- 9+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server Database Installation, Configuration, Administration, Maintenance and Performance Tuning, Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery on 2022/2019/2017/2016/2014/2012
- Strong experience with SQL Server (on Prem), Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL managed instance
- Background planning for high availability and disaster recovery using replication, always on, clustering, etc.
- Experience supporting ETL process and deploying SSIS Project
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