Principal Software Engineer (Systems Architect)
A1msolutions · US-based remote
About this role
**About A1M** A1M Solutions is a woman-owned small business focused on delivering value to customers, employees, partners, and community—guided by foundational values, deliberate focus, and empathetic connection. A1M’s mission is to preserve and improve U.S. government healthcare programs that serve underserved populations, including people in poverty, elderly people, members of ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and refugees. We work at the intersection of policy, data, and user experience design. **Technology Delivery at A1M** Our Technology Delivery practice plans, builds, and maintains solutions that may include custom code, low-code, and no-code approaches. We work in cross-functional, cross-organizational teams with designers and policy subject matter experts, using agile product management and development practices and valuing high-trust teams. --- ## About this role (Principal Software Engineer — Systems Architect) As an A1M Principal Software Engineer (Systems Architect), you shape both strategic and tactical direction for the systems and teams you support across contracts—and, where relevant, multiple centers, offices, or programs within the Technology Delivery practice. You’ll operate with high autonomy, advocating for the right solutions (not just the ones requested). You’re expected to provide thought leadership and expert consultation, and you may serve as a team lead, contribute fractionally across multiple contracts, or work as a focused individual contributor. You’ll also help shape discipline growth, staffing, and organizational strategy by engaging with people managers, practice directors, and leadership. ### Specific to this opening - Work with a small cross-functional scrum team to investigate and understand systemic challenges with **State Medicaid Enterprise System modernization**. - Interview states and vendors about implementation challenges and recommend systems improvements and other interventions. - Serve as a technical solutions advisor to the contract as a whole, including: - Development of **Medicaid policy analysis tools** - Identifying, building, and sustaining **process automation** opportunities --- ## Skills and responsibilities ### Strategic Technical capabilities - Shape technical strategy across contracts and programs, translating business and policy goals into system direction beyond any single project. - Drive architectural decisions and own decision documentation/diagrams with clear rationale. - Evaluate and recommend solutions based on cost, leanness, and long-term maintainability. - Apply a product mindset: understand not only how things are built, but why they matter to users and the value delivered. - Communicate technical work in terms aligned to each client’s goals and context. - Orchestrate staffing and team composition across the lifecycle of products/engagements. - Identify gaps in skills, information, or staffing and recommend solutions. - Share new technologies and skills that support project and organizational goals. ### Tactical Technical capabilities - Build and maintain complex, scalable systems across application/infrastructure layers and multiple components/services. - Own components/services from development through deployment, monitoring, and production support. - Deploy and manage systems in cloud environments using **CI/CD** and **infrastructure as code**. - Work with **APIs, databases, and data pipelines** to support integration and data flow. - Improve
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