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Overview

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the nation's largest professional association of physicians and a non-profit organization. This role is located at our corporate offices in Chicago as a Director II Ethics Policy Development (Hybrid) on the Health, Science, & Ethics team.

Responsibilities

• Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)
  • Serve as Secretary to the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA).
  • Oversee the development and updating of ethics guidance in the AMA Code of Medical Ethics.
  • Coordinate with AMA Office of General Counsel and Membership to establish and support a CEJA judicial process that reviews the ethical integrity and fitness of AMA members.
  • Manage strategic planning and prioritization of Council activities and the planning of CEJA’s work at its business meetings including CEJA’s Open Forum at Annual and Interim meetings of the AMA’s House of Delegates (HOD).
  • Oversee the staff who provide substantive support to the Reference Committee on Amendments to Constitution and Bylaws at HOD meetings.
• Promoting AMA Code of Medical Ethics
  • Maintain and update the Code website which includes the development of ethics cases and legal briefs.
  • Oversee the development of Code-based educational resources for medical students and physicians including UME, GME and CME‑relevant content on the AMA EdHub.
  • Develop Code-based manuscripts for peer‑review publication consideration in leading ethics journals.
  • Create ethics‑relevant content that draws on the ethics guidance from the Code for dissemination across AMA marketing and communication channels.
  • Work with Health Solutions to update and publish the annotated edition of the Code.
• Internal Collaboration
  • Work with AMA Advocacy to identify legislative and regulatory proposals that warrant ethics review and prepare responses to government stakeholders including Congressional committees, US federal agencies and state legislatures.
  • Work with AMA Enterprise Communications to respond to media inquiries and prepare letters to the editor.
  • Work with AMA Litigation Center to review amicus briefs and other legal documents that the Association plans to submit in court cases.
  • Prepare responses to inquiries related to ethics from AMA leadership including BOT, physicians, patients and the public.
  • Work with AMA International Relations to provide substantive support for World Medical Association and other international medicine activities.
• People Management
  • Provide appropriate training, guidance, and leadership for all professional staff.
  • Set goals, evaluate performance, and develop and advance staff skills/expertise.
• May Include Other Responsibilities As Assigned

Qualifications

• JD, PhD or equivalent degree in a medical professionalism and bioethics relevant field.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in health care ethics policy development and scholarship.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the AMA Code of Medical Ethics and familiarity with key organizations involved in the regulation of professional conduct in medicine.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in people management; able to grow and mentor talent.
• Demonstrated legal and/or bioethics research skills with strong writing and editing experience.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, including committee work experience.
• Project management experience, including managing staff effectively.
• Proven experience in publication in peer‑reviewed journals.
• Experience in the administration of a budget and team operations.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, including presentations on complex topics to diverse audiences, and experience with media relations.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a wide diversity of colleagues and work with minimal supervision.

Benefits

This is an exempt position. Salary range: $152,939–$206,519, based on qualifications and experience. Employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan. The American Medical Association offers comprehensive benefits; additional details are available upon request.

Location

330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. Convenient to all public transportation in Chicago.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The American Medical Association is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Analyze all new program requests, as well as changes to existing program operations, including but not limited to cross-project dependencies for all proposed changes.

- Work with senior leadership to assess current and future impact of all project and program changes within the Change Management Portfolio.

- Serve as subject matter expert for the Change Management team and provide guidance to Program Analysts.

- Communicate status, risks, and issues to senior leadership and/or the client, as appropriate.

- Lead meetings with internal project staff, client staff and/or project vendors.

- Act as the implementation lead for new project initiatives that impact the Change Management Portfolio.

- Act as a liaison with clients to effectuate the change management process.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

- Conduct research and analyze legislative, regulatory, and policy changes impacting programs and operations

- Synthesize findings and develop memos, briefs, and analytical reports to communicate policy and operational impacts

- Support the development of organizational responses to existing and proposed policy changes

- Recommend strategies to mitigate risks or leverage opportunities resulting from policy and regulatory changes

- Translate complex policy requirements into actionable operational processes and guidance

- Ensure alignment between policies, procedures, and program operations to maintain compliance and performance standards

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in related field.

- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience.

- Demonstrated ability to successfully prioritize and execute many complex tasks simultaneously.
- Demonstrated ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment.
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems quickly and accurately.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with project clients and/or senior management.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work as a team member, as well as independently.
- Project Management skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, and other computer software applications.

Additional Skills and Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience conducting policy, regulatory, or legislative research and analysis

- Strong ability to develop written deliverables, including reports, briefs, and executive summaries

- Proven ability to operate with minimal supervision while managing complex, high-impact issues

- Demonstrated experience providing leadership, coaching, or mentoring to junior staff

- Strong analytical, conceptual thinking, and problem-solving skills

- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and support decision-making at the senior leadership level

- Strong research skills with the ability to identify, gather, and synthesize relevant information

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at .

Minimum Salary

$

68,900.00

Maximum Salary

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98,011.00

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyze trends, conduct time studies and create solutions to ensure processes are aligned to comply with client policy, and to meet or exceed contractual and internal performance standards and expectations.
- Document issues and performance measures, provide recommendations, create and implement strategies to ensure that productivity goals are met while containing costs.
- Create and/or maintain deliverable artifacts.
- Create sophisticated and comprehensive reports used to educate and assist site management and program client.
- Develop processes to build operational policies, procedures and/or user guides.
- Develop processes to conduct business process improvement projects.
- Analyze existing forms, reports and methods to promote effective operations through standardization, improvement, simplification, discontinuance or other methods.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

- Conduct research and collect data on legislative, policy, or operational issues to support policy and process development.

- Analyze findings and develop written deliverables such as memos, briefs, and reports outlining policy and operational impacts.

- Assist in the development of organizational responses or recommendations related to existing or proposed policy changes.

- Recommend strategies to mitigate risks or leverage opportunities related to policy or regulatory changes.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of experience.

Additional Skills and Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience researching and analyzing policies, regulations, or operational processes.

- Experience developing written deliverables such as reports, briefs, or analytical summaries.

- Ability to work under general supervision while managing moderately complex tasks and issues.

- Solid working knowledge of policy analysis, process improvement, or operational analysis concepts.

- Strong research, analytical, and conceptual thinking skills.

- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and influence stakeholders.

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at .

Minimum Salary

$

44,800.00

Maximum Salary

$

93,670.00

The Team
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Recruiting for this role ends on 8/7/2026.
Work you'll do
We are looking for a highly skilled and client-facing Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to sit at the intersection of engineering excellence and customer partnership. In this role, you will embed directly with our most strategic clients - particularly in the financial services sector - to understand their toughest technical challenges and help them design and implement world-class solutions using our platform. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role with direct influence on product direction.
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a compelling proof-of-concept in days. You thrive in fast-moving, high-stakes environments and know how to earn the trust of deeply technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Client Engagement & Technical Advisory
+ Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic client accounts, building deep relationships with architects, engineers, and technical leaders
+ Lead discovery sessions to understand client architectures, pain points, and business objectives
+ Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences
Solution Design & Architecture
+ Collaborate with client architects and internal engineering teams to design scalable, production-ready solutions
+ Provide authoritative guidance on microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and cloud-native deployment patterns
+ Review and advise on client system designs, identifying risks and recommending best practices
Proof of Concepts & Demos
+ Rapidly prototype and build POCs that demonstrate platform value in the context of a client's real-world use cases
+ Own and deliver polished, technically rigorous demos tailored to the client's specific technology stack and business domain
+ Maintain a library of reusable demo assets and reference implementations
Workshops & Enablement
+ Design and facilitate deep-dive technical workshops, hackathons, and onboarding bootcamps for client engineering teams
+ Produce high-quality technical documentation, runbooks, and integration guides
+ Accelerate client time-to-value by enabling their teams to build confidently and independently
Feedback & Internal Collaboration
+ Act as the voice of the customer - surface product gaps, integration friction, and feature requests to internal product and engineering teams
+ Partner with Sales, Solutions Architecture, and Product to shape the technical go-to-market strategy
The successful candidate will possess
Core Technical Skills
+ Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot, including building production-grade microservices
+ Strong understanding of event-driven architecture - Kafka, event sourcing, CQRS, async messaging patterns
+ Hands-on experience with microservices design principles: service decomposition, API design, resiliency patterns, observability
+ Proficiency across multi-cloud environments, with AWS as a primary platform; working knowledge of Azure and GCP
+ Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Emerging Technology
+ Exposure to Agentic AI frameworks and tooling - including LangGraph, LangChain, or similar orchestration frameworks
+ Practical understanding of LLM integration patterns, prompt engineering, and AI-powered application design
+ Interest in staying current with the rapidly evolving AI/ML landscape and translating it into client-relevant use cases
Soft Skills & Presence
+ Exceptional communicator - able to lead technical conversations with senior engineers and C-suite stakeholders alike
+ Strong facilitation skills for running workshops, design reviews, and working sessions
+ Self-directed, highly organized, and comfortable managing multiple client engagements simultaneously
+ Natural curiosity and a bias for building - you'd rather spin up a demo than write a slide about one
Additional Key Experience
+ Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
+ Contributions to open-source projects or public technical content (talks, blogs, repos)
+ Prior experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
+ Relevant cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, GCP Professional, etc.)
Required Qualifications
+ 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent in client-facing, solutions engineering, or field engineering roles; background in financial services (banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, or fintech) strongly preferred
+ Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or equivalent field; Advanced Degree is a plus - equivalent work experience may act as a substitute for degree requirements
+ Ability to travel 20-30%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
+ Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $134,500-$265,100.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop, document, and maintain an effective set of policies and procedures consistent with project/program guidelines.

- Interface with management, clients and/or internal change management team to determine appropriate policy and procedure standard requirements.

- Research and analyze reports and other documents as needed.

- Recommend changes to policies and procedures.

- Assist with the development and execution of internal audits.

- Provide support on external audits.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

- Public policy research and impact analysis.

- Research legislative and policy issues.

- Write memos, briefs, and policy impact reports.

- Policy/legislative analysis.

- Qualitative research and policy interpretation.

- Analytical writing.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in related field.

- 3-5 years of relevant experience.

- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at .

Minimum Salary

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44,800.00

Maximum Salary

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80,655.00

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