Principal Software Engineer – Systems Architect

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🕒 August 5

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $155k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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A1M Solutions

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

🏛️ Government

Healthcare • Insurance • Government

A1M Solutions is a small, woman-owned business focused on enhancing government healthcare ecosystems through strategic design and policy implementation. With over 20 years of expertise in government programs, data, policy, and legislation, A1M Solutions addresses the social determinants of health by designing human-centered systems. The company prioritizes contracts that benefit underserved populations in the United States, including disadvantaged communities. A1M Solutions utilizes empathy, agile research, and digital service delivery to improve customer experiences and satisfaction through high-quality digital solutions that meet public needs. They offer services in digital and data consulting, specializing in transforming health access and delivery.

📋 Description

• Shape strategic and tactical direction for systems and teams across contracts, centers, offices, or programs within Technology Delivery • Investigate systemic challenges with State Medicaid Enterprise System modernization • Interview states and vendors about implementation challenges and recommend system improvements and other interventions • Advise the contract on Medicaid policy analysis tools and process automation opportunities • Build and maintain complex, scalable application and infrastructure systems • Own components and services through development, deployment, monitoring, and production support • Deploy and manage cloud systems using CI/CD and infrastructure as code • Work with APIs, databases, and data pipelines to support system integration and data flow • Shape system design, drive architectural decisions, write decision documents, and create strategic diagrams • Improve code quality, testing practices, development standards, DevOps, monitoring, and incident response • Mentor engineers, review code and technical designs, and shape technical direction • Lead discussions with internal and external stakeholders and build cross-team connections • Identify risks, conflicts, skills gaps, information gaps, and staffing needs; recommend and implement solutions • Advise on government requirements and policy, including accessibility, PRA, FOIA, acquisition regulations, and security compliance • Represent A1M and teams to clients, including in challenging situations • Identify contract growth opportunities and contribute to teaming connections, white papers, proposals, conferences, blogs, or social media • Partner with the Practice Director on career lattice, hiring practices, discipline growth, delivery quality, mentoring, and remote practice culture

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant professional experience • Ability to write high-quality, working, reusable code • Advanced proficiency in modern software development languages and systems • Expertise building secure, compliant software and minimizing vulnerability risk • Expertise in one or more adjacent specializations such as data engineering, DevOps, or accessibility • Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous environments and shape strategic direction beyond a single project • Ability to communicate technical results clearly to diverse and politically or strategically sensitive stakeholders • Experience working with or integrating legacy systems • Experience with large-scale applications and systems • Experience in government consulting engagements • Experience integrating AI with engineering work ethically and thoughtfully • Track record of mentoring across levels and disciplines and contributing to organizational growth • Confidence assessing technical candidates and advising on hiring decisions • Ability to assess technical delivery quality and recognize early signals of poor delivery • Experience contributing to business development, such as proposals or white papers • Must work from the United States, including the 50 states, District of Columbia, or US territories • Must have been a US resident for 3 of the past 5 years • Cannot reside in New York state • Must already have legal authorization to work in the US and not require ongoing visa sponsorship • Must be a permanent US resident • Must complete a Public Trust background investigation, including SF85 or SF85P as applicable and fingerprinting • Flexibility to work with partners primarily on Eastern Standard Time • Active participation in client virtual meetings, including being on camera • Preferred: experience in social-impact product teams or civic tech • Preferred: distributed cross-functional team experience • Preferred: government health and human services program experience • Preferred: Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid Enterprise System, Medicare, ACA, or MACRA knowledge • Preferred: SAFe and agile methodology familiarity • Preferred: resource management experience • Preferred: ability to manage data resources alongside technical roles and product managers

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Life insurance, short-term disability, and optional voluntary benefits • 401(k) retirement benefits with employer matching • Four weeks of paid time off, seven company holidays, two personal days, and your birthday off • Paid volunteer time • Wellness reimbursements • Budgets to support training, development, travel, and office supply needs • Donations to a nonprofit of your choice upon hire and a few times throughout each year • Flexibility for non-work-related life responsibilities during the day