Principal Software Architect – Scalable, Secure Platforms

Highmark Health; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 129,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen seeks a visionary Principal Software Engineer to build scalable public-facing applications across Digital Member Experience channels. You will own end-to-end architecture from client experiences and API gateways to backend services, data stores, and event pipelines, ensuring secure handling of PHI and compliance.

You will define service topologies, drive vendor migrations, lead partner integrations, and write ADRs while presenting strategic solutions to leadership, architecture reviews,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field.
• 9 years of proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in building and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
• 9 years with two or more modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred) and experience with at least three of the following: React, Angular v4+, NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.

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, and monitoring technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
• Explore new technologies and architectural concepts to ensure our products use cutting‑edge solutions.
• Participate in high-level development estimations to help 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.

Job description

enGen seeks a visionary Principal Software Engineer to build scalable public-facing applications across Digital Member Experience channels. You will own end-to-end architecture from client experiences and API gateways to backend services, data stores, and event pipelines, ensuring secure handling of PHI and compliance.

You will define service topologies, drive vendor migrations, lead partner integrations, and write ADRs while presenting strategic solutions to leadership, architecture reviews,