Principal Technical Lead
About The Position
BCBST is hiring a Principal Technical Lead for its Clinical and Communications Systems team. The role provides senior technical leadership across the portfolio, guiding architecture, solution design, and strategic technology decisions. The lead designs, develops, integrates, and modernizes complex applications and helps advance interoperability initiatives, including capabilities supporting electronic prior authorization mandates. The role also evaluates legacy systems, shapes scalable solutions, leads complex technical efforts, and serves as a subject matter expert and mentor to engineers. This is a remote, work-from-home position; the final interview round takes place in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Sponsorship is not available.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards.
- At least 7 years of systems and programming experience.
- At least 3 years of expert working knowledge of at least one programming language used at BCBST.
- Proven skill with information technology used at BCBST.
- Proven analysis, design, and coding skills, with demonstrated success leading large and complex projects.
- Recognized subject matter expertise in one or more specialized areas of application systems analysis and programming.
- Expert ability to interpret and translate technical or complex concepts into information meaningful to project team members or business personnel.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical coworkers.
- Ability to stay organized and reliable, manage multiple tasks, and demonstrate an exceptional work ethic.
- Leadership skills.
- Deep software engineering expertise, application architecture and solution design skills, strong communication and presentation capabilities, and the ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from design through delivery.
- Sponsorship is not available for this role.
Nice To Haves
- Experience modernizing legacy applications.
- Experience integrating complex systems or vendors.
- Experience improving application reliability and performance.
- Experience making strategic technical decisions.
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Formulate and define system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate complex information systems.
- Devise or modify application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements, including capacity, operating time, response time, and desired results.
- Design, code, test, debug, and document programs, subroutines, and scripts.
- Independently execute and deliver all phases of development and configuration lifecycles to high quality standards.
- Independently manage and deliver large, difficult, and frequently complex projects.
- Respond to system failures and performance events, reducing downtime and preventing recurrence of problems.
- Serve as a recognized technical and functional subject matter expert and provide technical mentoring.
- Guide architecture, solution design, and strategic technology decisions across the Clinical and Communications Systems portfolio.
- Lead application design, development, integration, and modernization, including interoperability initiatives.
- Evaluate legacy systems and shape scalable solutions for future growth.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
