Principal Application Architect & AI Delivery Lead

Prime Health Services; Franklin (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Generous PTO

Employee events

Job summary

Prime Health Services seeks a Principal Application Developer to act as a technical authority, setting architecture direction, reusable patterns, and governance for secure, scalable software with AI-assisted development. The role emphasizes traceability, privacy, and human accountability across applications and teams.

The position collaborates with IT leadership, product, security, and business stakeholders to align technology strategy with risk, compliance, and enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of enterprise application architecture, software engineering, integration, security, testing, DevOps, operational reliability, and technical-debt management.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft application technologies, including .NET, C#, SQL Server, APIs, cloud services, and modern web-development practices.
• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction, architecture standards, and governance across multiple applications, products, or teams.
• Proven experience leading architectural decisions, modernization efforts, complex technical investigations, and long-term roadmaps.
• Ability to evaluate technical risk, make decisions with incomplete information, and communicate tradeoffs to senior technical and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Establish technical direction and reference architectures for major applications, shared services, integrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Lead architectural decisions involving application structure, APIs, data, cloud services, integration, security, scalability, reliability, and operational support.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, approved design patterns, technical roadmaps, and development frameworks.
• Evaluate and approve technical designs for high-complexity projects and cross-product initiatives.
• Balance feature delivery, modernization, technical debt, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational priorities.
• Define standards for requirements traceability, technical design, implementation, automated testing, technical documentation, and production readiness.
• Lead architecture reviews, resolve complex technical disagreements, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs to technical and business leaders.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

.NET / C# expertise

Cloud services

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

SQL Server

APIs

DevOps practices

Job description

Prime Health Services seeks a Principal Application Developer to act as a technical authority, setting architecture direction, reusable patterns, and governance for secure, scalable software with AI-assisted development. The role emphasizes traceability, privacy, and human accountability across applications and teams.

The position collaborates with IT leadership, product, security, and business stakeholders to align technology strategy with risk, compliance, and enterprise goals.