Senior Principal Software Architect

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Job Summary:

Provides technical leadership for all aspects of software development. As a key member of the management team, develops software roadmaps for new systems and transformation of Legacy systems focusing especially on strategic initiatives. Applies leadership and hands-on architectural mentoring to foster a collaborative and productive environment between business, development, and other organizations within the enterprise. Fosters quality engineered products through agile and repeatable processes. Reviews emerging technology and provides roadmaps for integration where feasible. Uses excellent communication, proposal, and presentation skills to inform senior management and development staff of status and direction.

Responsibilities and Characteristics:

Acts as a resource to executive management on issues of extreme technical complexity and magnitude.

Recognized internally and externally as an industry authority, capable of handling issues of the highest impact to the organization.

Provides leadership on development of critical business and infrastructure solutions.

Provides architectural guidance to the engineering team.

Must be able to support business units in understanding technology risks and needs and provide direction to improve their ability to respond to business drivers.

Serves as a leader and mentor in the development and support of product frameworks.

Must be able to mentor, teach, and support engineering staff.

Applies innovative problem solving techniques to bridge business needs to solutions.

Must be highly motivated self-starter with a track record of success.

Provides support and refinement of development standards and practices.

Provides guidance on the development of metrics and tools.

Must possess a strong understanding of current agile development methodologies .

Capable of representing the organization through publication of papers to journals and conference proceedings and participation in healthcare industry groups and standards bodies.

Management Experience Areas:

Facilitates recruitment of engineering staff.

Evaluates growth of technical, analytical, and leadership skills of development personnel.

Acts as a liaison with other groups in the organization.

Capable of managing large engineering teams.

Capable of assisting in the development of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) statements.

Technical Experience Areas:

Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming

Domain Modeling

Architectural Specification using UML

Distributed Architectures such as .NET, J2EE, CORBA, etc.

Enterprise Application Integration and Service-Oriented Architecture techniques.

Message Oriented Middleware such as MQ Series and Publish and Subscribe architectures.

Rules Engines and State Machines

Creation of tools, frameworks, and facilities

Usage of programming languages such as C#, JAVA, etc.

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