Principal Architect & AI-Driven Systems Leader

Prime Health Services, Inc.; Franklin (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Group term life insurance

Generous PTO Policy

Employee recognition programs

Corporate office amenities

Frequent employee events

Job summary

Prime Health Services is seeking a Principal Application Developer to establish architecture direction for major applications and modernization initiatives. You will lead architectural decisions across data, APIs, cloud services, security, and reliability, while guiding AI-assisted development with governance and human oversight.

The role demands senior technical leadership, ability to influence across teams, and a track record of delivering scalable, secure software with maintainable practices.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of enterprise application architecture, software engineering, integration, security, testing, DevOps, operational reliability, and technical-debt management.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and develop other technical leaders without direct supervisory authority.
• Demonstrated expertise designing, evaluating, or governing AI-augmented engineering workflows with human-in-the-loop review.
• Degree, relevant technical certification, or equivalent depth of directly related experience sufficient to perform the responsibilities of the role.

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.
• Identify systemic technical risk and lead or sponsor high-impact remediation, incident investigation, and recovery efforts.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, platforms, and engineering practices and recommend adoption, limits, pilots, or rejection.
• Mentor Application Developers and Senior Application Developers and develop technical leadership capability across the team.
• Collaborate with IT leadership, product and business leaders, security, infrastructure, privacy, legal, compliance, and other stakeholders on technology strategy and risk.
• Influence technical direction across teams without relying on direct supervisory authority.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Software engineering

Integration

Security

Testing

DevOps

Operational reliability

Technical debt management

Azure

AI-augmented development

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

.NET

C#

SQL Server

APIs

Cloud services

Modern web-development practices

Job description

Prime Health Services is seeking a Principal Application Developer to establish architecture direction for major applications and modernization initiatives. You will lead architectural decisions across data, APIs, cloud services, security, and reliability, while guiding AI-assisted development with governance and human oversight.

The role demands senior technical leadership, ability to influence across teams, and a track record of delivering scalable, secure software with maintainable practices.