by Terrance Ellis | Feb 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you’re a solid Microsoft-stack dev who can own features end to end and also keep juniors moving, this one’s built for that. You’ll design, build, and maintain applications that support Allied’s internal and external teams.
About Allied Benefit Systems
Allied supports healthcare benefits administration. This role sits in IT, building and maintaining software for internal and external teams, with privacy and security compliance as a core expectation.
Schedule
- Full time
- Fully remote
- Internet requirement: cable/fiber with speeds of at least 100 Mbps download / 25 Mbps upload
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain software applications across internal and external products
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates to complete projects on time
- Provide technical leadership to junior developers
- Work with managers and stakeholders to resolve blockers that impact timelines
- Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering standards
- Design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions
- Meet productivity, quality, and goal expectations
- Follow all applicable privacy and security laws (including HIPAA and HITECH)
- Perform other duties as assigned
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
- 5–7 years of experience developing software using Microsoft’s platform
- Strong understanding of SOLID principles and object-oriented programming
- Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle
- Experience with C#, ASP.NET/MVC, Web APIs, and React
- SQL Server development experience, including creating and modifying stored procedures
- Ability to collaborate well with team members
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- Generous paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Technology stipend
Roles like this don’t stay open long. If it’s a fit, get your application in.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Feb 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you like turning messy operations into clean dashboards and better workflows, this one’s a real “make the business smarter” lane. You’ll own KPI reporting cycles, dig into SQL Server data, and translate insights into changes leaders can actually act on.
About Allied Benefit Systems
Allied supports healthcare benefits operations and works across teams and vendors to deliver effective service and administration. This role sits in IT and partners closely with operational leaders.
Schedule
What You’ll Do
- Analyze current processes and recommend improvements
- Collaborate with department leaders on reporting and process improvement opportunities
- Build, maintain, and generate weekly, monthly, and quarterly KPI reporting with department managers
- Learn and apply understanding of Allied’s business needs, systems, and workflows
- Execute daily processes and procedures as assigned
- Pilot new internal processes and procedures
- Write and maintain process documentation
- Coordinate with other operational units to resolve issues and implement enhancement requests
- Bridge communication between technical and non-technical teams
- Support team projects and other duties as assigned
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science/Math/Statistics preferred) or equivalent work experience
- 2–3 years experience as a business, systems, or data quality analyst
- SQL experience required (specifically SQL Server) plus report writing
- Strong MS Office skills; VBA and especially Access preferred
- Familiarity with project management (waterfall methodology a plus)
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to learn new software quickly
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- Generous PTO
- Tuition reimbursement
- EAP
- Technology stipend
This one’s a better money-to-effort ratio than a lot of the other Allied postings you pasted. If you can genuinely talk SQL Server, KPI reporting cadence, and “here’s the process fix and the metric that proves it,” you’re in the sweet spot for that $75K–$100K range.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Feb 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
This is a high-impact analytics seat that lives where finance, partnerships, and product decisions actually get made. If you can turn messy questions into clean analysis, automate reporting so teams stop guessing, and tell the story behind the numbers, you’ll fit right in.
About 8am
8am (formerly AffiniPay) is a professional business platform that helps legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Founded in 2005, it supports over 250,000 professionals across the U.S. with purpose-built solutions designed to simplify operations, support compliance, and fuel growth. The company has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for 13 consecutive years and continues to scale.
Schedule
Remote (U.S.). This role partners closely with FP&A, Partnerships, Product, and Data Engineering to deliver scalable analytics, automated reporting, and business-ready insights. Salary range varies by location, with the listed U.S. range below.
What You’ll Do
- Perform ad hoc analysis to identify trends and root causes across 8am’s product ecosystem
- Partner with Data Engineering to automate data transformations and build scalable workflows and models
- Work cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, Partnerships, and Product to convert data into actionable insights
- Own the full data lifecycle, including collection, measurement, analysis, interpretation, and presentation
- Translate and summarize data into decision-ready formats for stakeholders and senior leaders
- Build rich, interactive visualizations and dashboards to support data-driven decisions
- Communicate insights through clear written summaries, presentations, and data storytelling for technical and non-technical audiences
- Analyze historical performance, define best practices, and identify optimization opportunities
- Pull and combine internal and external data sources to create a complete view of key questions
- Explore data for patterns, anomalies, relationships, and trends while juggling multiple projects and deadlines
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree (preferably in a quantitative field like Statistics, Business, Computer Science, or Engineering) or equivalent experience
- Advanced SQL and Excel skills for transformation and analysis
- Strong Python experience for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data
- Experience using BI/visualization tools such as Tableau, Sigma, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with modern data stacks and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, or similar)
- Experience using GenAI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to create interactive data tools
- Exposure to experimentation, cohort analysis, or product usage analytics
- 4+ years of experience in fintech, banking, payment processing, or related finance technology
- 2+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or subscription-based businesses
- Ability to scope ambiguous problems independently, structure analyses, and deliver actionable recommendations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that balance technical depth with business clarity
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve workflows, decision-making, or innovation
Benefits
- Salary range: $90,000 to $120,000 annually (location may impact range)
- Medical, dental, and vision options, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees
- Competitive package with bonuses, equity options, and 401(k) match (or RRSP in Canada)
- Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and parental leave
- Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching
- Learning and development resources through 8am.edu plus professional development funds
- Volunteer time off, charitable matching, and team engagement events
Analytics roles with this kind of cross-functional visibility get filled fast. If this matches your skill set, don’t wait around.
Come be the person who makes the numbers make sense, and makes the next move obvious.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Feb 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Lead a team building the front-end foundation for a platform used by hundreds of thousands of professionals nationwide. If you love scaling design systems, shipping polished web and mobile experiences, and coaching engineers to do their best work, this is a real seat at the table.
About 8am
8am (formerly AffiniPay) is a professional business platform that helps legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Founded in 2005, it supports over 250,000 professionals across the U.S. with purpose-built solutions designed to simplify operations, support compliance, and fuel growth. The company has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for 13 consecutive years and continues to scale.
Schedule
Remote (U.S.). Work spans web and mobile product delivery in an Agile environment, including team ceremonies like sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives. Salary range varies by location, with the listed U.S. range below.
What You’ll Do
- Own and evolve the design system component library to enable consistent, high-quality user experiences and faster delivery across teams
- Lead the development of a best-in-class mobile application for professionals on the go
- Define and mature front-end architecture and technical strategy for scalable, long-term growth
- Manage and coach engineers through feedback, mentorship, and career development planning
- Guide UI modernization efforts while balancing feature delivery and platform investments
- Review designs and influence implementation approaches to ensure strong front-end architecture
- Translate business goals into clear technical direction so engineers understand impact and priorities
- Build a psychologically safe team culture where engineers can question, challenge, and experiment
- Partner with cross-functional teams to shape roadmaps, align on trade-offs, and connect engineering work to business outcomes
- Champion usability, accessibility, and performance as core product qualities
- Lead team ceremonies and help unblock cross-team initiatives by sharing best practices
What You Need
- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years designing, implementing, and debugging large-scale, cloud-based solutions
- 2+ years managing, mentoring, and leading engineering teams
- Strong production experience with React, reusable component design, complex state management, and front-end performance optimization
- Experience with Lean product development and Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
- Strong grasp of SOLID principles and software design patterns
- Excellent collaboration, documentation, and communication skills
- Ability to leverage LLMs to improve engineering workflows (code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation) with sound judgment around limitations and risks
- Understanding of AI agent architectures and tooling (tool use, orchestration, MCP servers) and how to evaluate or adopt them responsibly
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, decision-making, or drive innovation
Benefits
- Salary range: $150,000 to $220,000 annually (location may impact range)
- Medical, dental, and vision options, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees
- Competitive package with bonuses, equity options, and 401(k) match (or RRSP in Canada)
- Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and parental leave
- Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching
- Learning and development resources through 8am.edu plus professional development funds
- Volunteer time off, charitable matching, and team engagement events
Leadership roles like this don’t sit open forever. If this fits your lane, make the move.
Build the system. Grow the team. Ship the kind of front-end work people actually feel.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Feb 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
This role sits right where security meets the AI wave. You’ll help keep the business safe as generative AI and LLMs get embedded into tools and customer experiences, building guardrails so innovation doesn’t turn into a data leak headline.
About 8am
8am (formerly AffiniPay) is a professional business platform that helps legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Founded in 2005, it supports over 250,000 professionals across the U.S. with purpose-built solutions designed to simplify operations, support compliance, and drive growth. The company has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for 13 consecutive years and continues to scale.
Schedule
Remote (U.S.). This is a hybrid-focused responsibility set (security operations monitoring plus AI risk and governance). Salary range varies by location, with the listed U.S. range below.
What You’ll Do
- Identify and mitigate AI-specific threats like prompt injection, jailbreaking, data leakage, insecure output handling, model misuse, supply chain risks, and inference-side attacks
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to review AI use cases, run risk assessments, and recommend controls before production deployment
- Evaluate third-party AI vendors and services for security posture and risk
- Implement and enforce AI guardrails such as input and output filtering, usage policies, and responsible AI controls
- Support AI-related incident response, investigations, and post-incident analysis
- Perform SOC-style monitoring, alert triage, and investigation across cloud, application, and AI-enabled systems, including AI API usage and data flows
- Enhance detection rules and logging to better capture AI-specific activity and risk signals
- Document AI security controls, risk assessments, and audit evidence for frameworks and standards including SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA (as applicable), and ISO standards
- Track evolving AI regulations and translate them into practical, actionable security controls
- Educate stakeholders on AI risks, secure usage patterns, and best practices so teams can move fast without being reckless
What You Need
- 3–7 years of experience in information security, security operations, application security, or a related field
- Familiarity with AI concepts, architectures, and common risks, including references like OWASP Top 10 for LLMs
- Experience supporting compliance and audit activities (SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO)
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams in a fast-paced SaaS environment
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation
Benefits
- Salary range: $120,000 to $150,000 annually (location may impact range)
- Medical, dental, and vision options, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees
- Competitive package with bonuses, equity options, and 401(k) match (or RRSP in Canada)
- Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and parental leave
- Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching
- Learning and development resources through 8am.edu plus professional development funds
- Volunteer time off, charitable matching, and team engagement events
If you’re serious about AI security, these roles get scooped up quickly. Make your move while it’s open.
This is your chance to be the person who keeps the AI train on the tracks, not the one chasing it after it derails.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Feb 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
This is a senior, enterprise-level security architecture role for someone who can set the direction, build the roadmap, and make secure-by-design real across Azure, hybrid, and on-prem environments. If you can talk strategy with leadership and still get your hands dirty with DevSecOps automation, this is your seat.
About Protective
Protective helps protect customers against life’s uncertainties through insurance and financial products that provide stability and peace of mind. Their tech teams support systems that impact millions of lives, with a strong emphasis on reliability, compliance, and responsible innovation. Protective offers a benefits package built around whole-person wellbeing and long-term financial health.
Schedule
- Full-time, remote
- Location referenced: Birmingham, AL (role is listed as work from home/remote)
- Salary range: $124,500–$155,000 per year
- Bonus eligibility: annual incentive based on individual and company performance
What You’ll Do
- Lead enterprise security strategy and architecture across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments
- Build and execute a security architecture roadmap aligned to business goals and regulatory requirements
- Create and maintain security standards, patterns, documentation, and reference architectures aligned to NIST, OWASP, ISO, and CIS
- Champion secure-by-design practices, including automation and scalable governance
- Define, track, and report security metrics that demonstrate maturity, effectiveness, and compliance
- Design and oversee secure architecture topologies for enterprise systems and enablement platforms
- Drive DevSecOps adoption, including secure CI/CD integration, container security (Kubernetes/Docker), IaC/PaC (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, Azure Policy)
- Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and incident response planning for Azure and hybrid systems
- Provide expert guidance on IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and cloud security controls
- Evaluate and recommend security products and vendors aligned to enterprise standards
- Partner closely with technology teams, suppliers, and business stakeholders to embed security into IT strategy
- Mentor architects and engineers and help build a security-first culture
- Deliver security awareness guidance and training across IT and business teams
- Stay current on emerging threats, new technologies, and regulatory changes, recommending improvements as needed
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field (or 5+ years relevant experience)
- 2+ years in a senior or lead security architecture role
- Proven expertise in Azure security and compliance, hybrid cloud security, and enterprise security architecture
- Experience with strategic planning, enterprise architecture, and IT portfolio management
- Strong understanding of compliance requirements and regulatory frameworks
- Hands-on experience with Azure security tools, including:
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender
- Key Vault
- Entra ID
- Azure Firewall
- Azure Policy/Blueprints
- Experience automating security controls and compliance reporting in Azure
- Strong knowledge of IAM, PKI, SSO, MFA, and secure API integration
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence stakeholders
- Experience working in agile environments
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Mental health benefits and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid time away benefits (PTO, paid parental leave, short-term disability, cultural observance day)
- Healthcare account contributions
- Pension plan
- 401(k) with company match
- ProHealth Rewards wellbeing platform with cash rewards
- Benefits eligibility may vary by position per plan terms
If a company needs someone to stop thinking of security as a “team” and start treating it like an operating system for the whole enterprise, this is that job.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
