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Principal System Engineer

HMSA
Honolulu, HI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/26/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/29/2026


  • 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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