Principal Technical Lead

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc. is hiring a Principal Technical Lead for the Clinical and Communications Systems team.

You will guide architecture, design, and strategic tech choices across the portfolio, lead modernization efforts, and mentor engineers while advancing interoperability initiatives. You will independently drive complex technical programs from design to delivery, with emphasis on legacy modernization and vendor integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required.
• 3 years of IT concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards experience.
• 7 years of systems and programming experience required.
• 3 years expert working knowledge of at least one programming language used at BCBST.

Responsibilities

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives to design, develop, modify, or integrate complex information systems.
• Devises or modifies applications to optimize capacity, operating time, response time and outcomes.
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs and scripts.
• Executes and delivers all phases of development and configuration lifecycles with high quality.
• Manages large projects and handles complex problems independently.
• Responds to failures and performance events to minimize downtime and recurrence.
• Acts as SME and provides technical mentoring across engineering teams.

Education

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Job description

We are hiring a Principal Technical Lead for our Clinical and Communications Systems team at BCBST!

In this role, you will serve as a senior technical leader, guiding architecture, solution design, and strategic technology decisions across the Clinical and Communications Systems portfolio. You’ll lead the design, development, integration, and modernization of complex applications while helping advance interoperability initiatives, including capabilities supporting electronic prior authorization mandates. You’ll also evaluate legacy systems, shape scalable solutions for future growth, lead complex technical efforts, and serve as a trusted subject matter expert and mentor to other engineers.

To be successful in this role, in addition to the core job requirements, you’ll bring deep software engineering expertise, strong application architecture and solution design skills, exceptional communication and presentation capabilities,and the ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from design through delivery. You will be a strong candidate for this role if you have experience modernizing legacy applications, integrating complex systems or vendors, improving application reliability and performance, making strategic technical decisions, and providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.

Note:

• Sponsorship is not available for this role.
• This is a remote, work from home position, but the final round of interviews will take place in Chattanooga, TN.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate complex information systems.
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results.
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts.
• Expertly and independently executes and delivers all phases of the development and configuration lifecyles with the highest levels of quality.
• Independently manages and delivers large projects which include problems that are difficult and frequently complex.
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems.
• Serves as a recognized technical and functional subject matter expert in their area and source of expert knowledge and technical mentoring.

Job Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required.

Experience

• 3 year - Experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards required
• 7 years - Systems and programming experience required
• 3 year - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language in use at BCBST.

Skills/Certifications

• Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required.
• Proven analysis, design, and coding skills, and demonstrated success in leading large and complex projects.
• Recognized subject matter expert in one or more specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming.
• Expert ability to interpret and translate technical and/or or complex concepts into information meaningful to project team members and/or business personnel.
• Be organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks with exceptional work ethic.

Leadership skills

• Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers.

Number of Openings Available

1

Worker Type:

Employee

Company:

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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