Principal Software Engineer [Solutions Architect]

Highmark Health - Augusta, ME

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Augusta, ME

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About the position

The Principal Software Engineer (Solutions Architect) at Highmark Health is a key member of an agile software engineering team responsible for developing scalable software applications across various digital channels. This role involves taking an enterprise-wide architectural view of solutions and executing technical products that align with platform needs. The engineer will collaborate with clients and engage in all phases of the software application build process, from ideation to development, while mentoring other engineers and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the resolution of a variety of technical and business problems ensuring proper scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and robustness.
• Responsible for idea generation, exploring and implementing appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features, while monitoring technical processes against project plans.
• Explore new technologies and architectural concepts to ensure products utilize cutting-edge solutions.
• Participate in high-level development estimations to ensure roadmap execution is on target.
• Present solutions and ideas to team members and management to drive technical solutions and implementations.
• Mentor and provide leadership to other software engineers as needed.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field (required).
• 9 years of proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in building and deploying scalable systems (required).
• 9 years with at least two modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred).
• 9 years in understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON.
• 9 years with two or more general purpose programming languages including Java, Python (Django/Flask), C/C++, C#, Objective C, JavaScript, or Go.
• 9 years of defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities.
• 9 years producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (preferred).
• 9 years working with a variety of technology systems, designing solutions or developing applications in healthcare (preferred).
• Experience in Cloud platform and technologies like GCP or AWS is a major plus.
• 3 years of working with Machine Learning, especially in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Dental insurance coverage
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Flexible scheduling options
• Paid holidays
• Professional development opportunities