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The role establishes architecture direction, reusable engineering patterns, and practical governance for secure, scalable, maintainable software. The Principal Application Developer defines how approved AI-assisted development strengthens delivery while preserving software quality, traceability, security, privacy, and human accountability.\nEssential Job Functions\nEstablish technical direction and reference architectures for major applications, shared services, integrations, and modernization initiatives.\nLead architectural decisions involving application structure, APIs, data, cloud services, integration, security, scalability, reliability, and operational support.\nDefine and maintain architecture standards, approved design patterns, technical roadmaps, and development frameworks.\nEvaluate and approve technical designs for high-complexity projects and cross-product initiatives.\nBalance feature delivery, modernization, technical debt, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational priorities.\nDefine standards for requirements traceability, technical design, implementation, automated testing, technical documentation, and production readiness.\nLead architecture reviews, resolve complex technical disagreements, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs to technical and business leaders.\nIdentify systemic technical risk and lead or sponsor high-impact remediation, incident investigation, and recovery efforts.\nResearch and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, platforms, and engineering practices and recommend adoption, limits, pilots, or rejection.\nMentor Application Developers and Senior Application Developers and develop technical leadership capability across the team.\nCollaborate with IT leadership, product and business leaders, security, infrastructure, privacy, legal, compliance, and other stakeholders on technology strategy and risk.\nInfluence technical direction across teams without relying on direct supervisory authority.\nAI-Enabled Development Expectations\nDefine approved patterns and guardrails for AI-assisted requirements, design, coding, testing, documentation, technical review, and knowledge use.\nEstablish human review and approval points for AI-generated engineering artifacts based on solution risk, data sensitivity, business impact, and practical reviewability.\nEvaluate AI development tools, coding agents, models, integrations, and context sources for business value, architecture fit, security, privacy, interoperability, maintainability, and operational risk.\nDefine how trusted business rules, technical standards, repository context, and architecture information may be presented to approved AI systems.\nEstablish reusable instructions, reference implementations, validation controls, traceability expectations, and quality measures for AI-assisted delivery.\nIdentify risks involving incorrect business logic, insecure code, unsupported assumptions, intellectual property, inadequate testing, sensitive data, or excessive automation.\nDetermine when AI is appropriate, when traditional engineering methods should be used, and when an AI-assisted approach should be limited or stopped.\nPromote incremental, reviewable, testable AI-assisted delivery and ensure authorized employees retain final ownership of designs, code, releases, and decisions.\nRequired Qualifications\nExpert knowledge of enterprise application architecture, software engineering, integration, security, testing, DevOps, operational reliability, and technical-debt management.\nExtensive experience with Microsoft application technologies, including .NET, C#, SQL Server, APIs, cloud services, and modern web-development practices.\nDemonstrated experience setting technical direction, architecture standards, and governance across multiple applications, products, or teams.\nProven experience leading architectural decisions, modernization efforts, complex technical investigations, and long-term roadmaps.\nAbility to evaluate technical risk, make decisions with incomplete information, and communicate tradeoffs to senior technical and business leaders.\nDemonstrated ability to influence across teams and develop other technical leaders without direct supervisory authority.\nDemonstrated expertise designing, evaluating, or governing AI-augmented engineering workflows with human-in-the-loop review.\nDegree, relevant technical certification, or equivalent depth of directly related experience sufficient to perform the responsibilities of the role.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Azure architecture, distributed systems, microservices, API governance, application security, observability, platform engineering, and automated quality controls.\nExperience in healthcare, insurance, cost containment, regulated data environments, healthcare billing, or X12 integrations.\nExperience evaluating development platforms, vendors, licensing, and enterprise technology investments.\nCore Competencies\nEnterprise systems thinking and long-range technical judgment.\nArchitecture leadership, governance discipline, and responsible innovation.\nExecutive-level communication and ability to translate technical opportunities and risks.\nAbility to create alignment across teams, products, and stakeholders.\nCommitment to measurable quality, secure delivery, and human accountability.\nScope and Decision Authority\nInfluences multiple applications, products, services, and development teams.\nMakes high-impact architectural recommendations with long-term business and technical consequences.\nDefines standards and patterns used beyond a single delivery team.\nServes as a technical authority for architecture, modernization, engineering quality, and AI-augmented development.\nEscalates material enterprise risk and recommends exceptions through authorized governance channels.\nResponsible AI and Human Accountability\nThis position may use only organization-approved AI tools, data connections, and development practices. The employee must review, test, document, and validate AI-assisted work before use or release and remains accountable for correctness, security, privacy, maintainability, intellectual-property considerations, business alignment, and final decisions. Sensitive or regulated information may be used only within systems approved for that information. Material uncertainty, unexpected behavior, security concerns, or policy conflicts must be escalated through approved channels.\nBenefits\nMedical Insurance \nDental and Vision Insurance\nCompany-paid short-term & long-term disability\nCompany-paid group term life insurance\nGenerous PTO Policy\nEmployee recognition programs\nCorporate office amenities\nFrequent employee events\nAbout Prime Health Services\nPrime Health Services (PHS) is a national medical cost containment company specializing in customized PPO network solutions. Since 2001, we’ve partnered with insurance carriers, TPAs, self-insured groups, and government entities to deliver high-quality healthcare access at discounted rates. 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