Principal Software Engineer

Job Title 

Principal Software Engineer  

Job Summary  

GHX is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect (EA) Core Subject Matter Expert (SME) with deep technical expertise and a proven track record in architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable production software solutions. The EA Core SME role reports to the VP  EA Leader and will be responsible for leading EA activities including EA Guideline creation and cross-Enterprise EA Evangelizing, Reviews, Consulting and Solutioning, The EA Core SME must be hands-on with development languages and tools in order to create, deploy and test production quality reference/recipe code assets. The ideal candidate will be skilled in AWS, Java and/or Python, Sync/Async Microservices and ORMs as-well-as proficient in Security, Performance/Scalability/Resilience and CICD/IaC  techniques. 

 Duties and responsibilities   

• Architect, design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems that align with business needs, creating flexible, reusable, and efficient solutions.  

• Identify root causes of challenges, analyze upstream and downstream impacts, and recommend impactful, broad-reaching solutions while considering corporate strategy and trade-offs.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Owners, Security Leaders and Infrastructure Leaders to understand their requirements/concerns and create solutions to accommodate.  

• Produce clearly articulated documentation in the form of approach presentations, architecture/design diagrams, wiki content and epics/features. 

• Establish practical/actionable/production-grade guideline content and use it to guide teams in best practices for architecture, design, development and testing as-well-as mentoring team members and fostering a collaborative environment.  

• Learn and understand vertical/domain level business/functional aspects in order to shape appropriate technical approaches/solutions.  

• Build and maintain strong business relationships to influence decision-making and drive innovative solutions across teams.  

 Qualifications  

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing enterprise software systems.  

• 10 years of experience designing and implementing technological solutions using Java and/or Python languages within cloud environments.  

• Proficiency in Frontend WebApp architectures/technologies such as Modular SPA, MFE, BFF, Responsive/Reactive, I18N/L10N.  

• Proficiency in Backend Services architectures/technologies such as Sync/Async/Batch Microservices, Chasis, DDD, DTO/DAO, ORM, CQRS, Data Replication, Messaging/Eventing, Orchestration/Workflow , API Styles, API Management/Gateway, Traceability, CircuitBreaker, Feature Switches. 

• Proficiency in Polyglot Datastore architectures/technologies such as RDBMS, Document, Search as-well-as data tier Concurrency/Transaction architectures/techniques such as Local, 2PC, SAGA, Eventual Consistency, CQRS 

• Proficient in applying Unit Testing, Code Coverage, API Testing, Performance, Scalability and Resilience aspects/techniques including Tenancy aspects/techniques aspects such as Single-Deployment/Multi-tenant.  

• Proficient with Security aspects/techniques/technologies such as DAST, SAST, Endpoint Security, Secrets Management, Encryption, Logging Aggregation. 

• Comfortable with HA (High Availability) SRE architecture aspects/techniques such as local load-balancing, multi-AZ load balancing, Zero-downtime Release, Response-time SLAs as-well-as DR (Disaster Recovery) architecture aspects/techniques such as multi-Region, Active-Passive, Active-Active, Dependency, Turnaway, RTO/RPO/Uptime SLAs. 

• Comfortable with IAM/Authentication aspects/techniques/technologies for Human and System Identities such as SSO, OAuth, JWT as-well-as RBAC/Authorization aspects/techniques/technologies for Human and System Identities such as User, Role, Permission, Role, Hierarchy, Session. 

• Comfortable with Data Governance aspects/techniques/technologies such as Classification, Licensing, Rights, Privacy, Sovereignty, Retention/DLM/ILM, Data Quality, Data Standards, Obfuscation, Catalog, Metadata. 

• Experienced working within Agile SDLC environments.  

• Able to work independently and as part of a team on multiple overlapping projects and manifest organization skills in order to effectively context-switch as needed.  

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.  

 Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  

• Proven track record of managing multiple projects and delivering high-quality results with innovation and creativity.  

• Communicates complex technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences, including technical and non-technical teams.  

• Collaborates seamlessly across departments with varying levels of technical expertise.  

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of system-wide impacts and interdependencies across products, teams, and the organization.  

• Develops and implements innovative solutions that challenge the status quo and drive process improvement.  

 

GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcare
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.

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