Principal Software Architect - Scalable Secure Health Apps

Highmark Health Company; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health in Pittsburgh, PA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and build scalable public-facing software across Digital Member Experience channels. You will own the end-to-end SDLC, shaping architecture from client experiences through API gateways to backend services, data stores, and event pipelines, with a strong emphasis on PHI security and compliance.

You will lead architecture decisions, drive vendor migrations and partner integrations, and present ADRs to senior

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field.
• Preferred Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Extensive experience designing and delivering scalable, enterprise-grade software systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architectural design, ensuring scalability, security, and robustness across client experiences, API gateways, backend services, and data pipelines.
• Define ADRs, drive architecture decisions, and present solutions to senior leadership, architecture reviews, and security teams.
• Mentor engineers and guide vendor integrations, authentication/authorization, and non-functional requirements.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

React

Angular

NodeJS

NoSQL

HTML5

CSS

REST

JSON

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Django/Flask

C/C++

Security

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

ACE

IIB/ITX

Informatica

RESTful Services

Job description

Highmark Health in Pittsburgh, PA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and build scalable public-facing software across Digital Member Experience channels. You will own the end-to-end SDLC, shaping architecture from client experiences through API gateways to backend services, data stores, and event pipelines, with a strong emphasis on PHI security and compliance.

You will lead architecture decisions, drive vendor migrations and partner integrations, and present ADRs to senior