The Role
The Principal System Engineer leads technical design and development for complex projects, oversees vendor solutions, mentors team members, and ensures solution quality.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
- Design Solutions:
- Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
- Balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions, while fully understanding system inter-dependencies and limitations. Evaluate system options, risk, cost versus benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals. Make buy vs. build recommendations within enterprise architecture standards and guidance.
- Identify best sources of data and data integration solutions, working with data architects to ensure optimal software design and architecture.
- Lead or participate in the technical evaluation of vendor services and platforms, and ongoing management of implemented vendor solutions.
- Deliver Solutions:
- Lead application technical component design and development. Develop technical specifications, reusable components and/or frameworks for application teams utilizing common and domain specific design patterns where appropriate.
- Serve as technical subject matter expert for development of new code or education on reusable components and services. Participate in hands-on development and help resolve complex issues and incidents.
- Drive Solution Quality:
- Define solution quality standards and procedures. Lead software inspections and quality reviews. Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development and integration.
- Contribute to enterprise application architecture processes, principles, policies, and standards definition.
- Team Development:
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
- Provides technical team leadership, coaching, and mentoring to senior and junior team members to increase core systems knowledge, coding standards and development best practices.
- Requirements and Planning.
- Reviews and provides input to the requirements for the implementation of business solutions.
- Participates in the planning process for near-term project/agile delivery and the future roadmap/direction of business and technology product domains.
- Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
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Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in related technical/business areas and ten years of systems analysis and programming experience in software architecture and/or application development and support work; or equivalent work experience.
- May substitute a higher level of degree in related technical/business area and less work experience.
- A broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and software architecture standards.
- Advanced levels of programming techniques and knowledge of distributed system architectures, and object-oriented design.
- Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in related technical/business areas
- Ten years of systems analysis and programming experience in software architecture and/or application development
- Broad understanding of information systems and software architecture standards
- Advanced programming techniques and knowledge of distributed system architectures
- Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
HMSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about HMSA and has not been reviewed or approved by HMSA.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical and dental coverage are described as solid, with preventive services and select zero‑cost features adding value in recent plan years. Employer-sponsored plans can have affordable premiums in certain groups and broad access options.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and potential discretionary contributions forms a strong component of total rewards. Retirement support complements the core medical and dental package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and PTO that increases with tenure provide meaningful time‑off flexibility. Time‑away benefits scale with service length.
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The Company
What We Do
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is a reliable name in Hawaii health care. Established in 1938, we are the largest and most experienced provider of health care coverage in the state. Over half of Hawaii’s population have chosen HMSA for their health care coverage. We are dedicated to providing quality, affordable health plans; employee benefit services; and worksite wellness programs. HMSA also offers a variety of programs, services and support to help improve the health and well-being of our members and community.
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