Lead Software Engineer and Architect

Academic Health Plans (AHP) is a Risk Strategies company and market leader in the student healthcare industry. The AHP Lead Software Engineer and Architect is a newly created role to become the overall hands-on technical leader of our next-generation platform. We are looking for a lead software engineer and architect with experience developing software in .NET Core C#, JavaScript, Node JS, Angular, and MS SQL in an AWS Cloud Setting while providing technical leadership to a team of software developers.

The Lead Software Engineer and Architect will provide overall platform architecture design and technical direction to a team comprising AHP and Third-Party Development Partners. This team consists of full-stack developers, front-end developers, back-end developers, data base engineers, mobile developers, and SQA engineers.

Key duties include platform architectural leadership and decision-making, establishing design patterns and coding standards, leading code refactoring, leading developer code reviews, refining the software estimation process, and mentoring junior developers.

We use a hybrid software development approach with two-week sprints, a UI/UX-driven design, a modern cloud-based scalable architecture, manual and automated software QA, and CICD-based deployment and release processes.

This position may have access to sensitive information such as PII and/or PHI. As such, all AHP employees sign and adhere to AHP’s Information Security Handbook, which covers information security policies and procedures.

AHP’s offices are in Grapevine, Texas (west of DFW Airport). The candidate needs to be in the general Dallas / Fort Worth area with the ability to work in the office. AHP is adopting a hybrid working approach for Teams after an initial onboarding period.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work as the overall lead Software Engineer providing platform-level architecture design, the establishment of technical standards, design reviews leadership, and overall technical direction to our development team.
• Directly design and document platform architecture, design patterns, microservices, and APIs.
• Provide software engineering leadership in development ceremonies, including technical design sessions, sprint planning, code reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Provide overall software development technical direction and mentoring to the software development team. Includes developing design patterns, architectural patterns, and coding standards
• Lead team-based design sessions as needed to provide technical direction and mentorship
• Establish performance, consistency, and reusability coding standards for team-wide use.
• Provide hands-on development for our platform’s most challenging and complex aspects.
• Design and develop our most challenging software components or features in .NET Core C#, JavaScript, Angular, and MS SQL contributing to the overall design, coding standards, and patterns for the project.
• Lead the hands-on design and development of new architectural elements.
• Lead platform-wide performance optimization efforts as needed.
• Develop and oversee an ongoing technical debt reduction strategy.
• Provide design reviews, estimate reviews, and code reviews as needed across the development team.
• Work with management to refine and optimize overall software development methodologies, task assignment, and tracking.
• Recommend new development and testing tools, techniques, and methods.
• Perform unit testing on software.
• Design and develop RESTFUL APIs to add to existing integration capabilities.
• Use Atlassian JIRA Confluence, and GitHub during development.
• Collaborate with the software QA team on integration, regression testing, and associated defect corrections.
• Collaborate with the overall team on release and deployment using Docker/Docker Hub and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with Product Management to develop plans and strategies for future AHP products and platform features.
• Troubleshoot problems across a full range of AWS environments and services by working with development, QA, and architect team members as needed.
• Provide production support to AHP systems as needed to resolve client or production issues.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar Technical Area and/or equivalent work experience
• 10 years of experience as a full stack developer in an AWS or Azure-hosted, .NET CORE, C#, Angular, and MS SQL development environment
• 3 years of experience as overall architect for a cloud-based SaaS platform.
• 5 years designing and implementing and scalable RESTful APIs
• 4 years with JavaScript
• 3 Years in container-based application architecture, deployment, and release environments. 3 years in Angular or Node JS 3 years with cloud technologies using AWS or Azure
• 2 years working with near-shore development partners a plus
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with GitHub, NuGet, Docker/DockerHub, CircleCI, Kubernetes, and Rabbit MQ a plus
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms
• Experience with Agile-based development
• Strong interest in staying current with industry trends, techniques, and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written)
• Experience with maintaining and supporting 24x7 mission-critical systems
• Experience in higher education, insurance, and especially student health a plus
• Prior work experience with EDI standards including 834, 270, 271 a plus
• Experience working in an environment with HIPAA, PII, PHI, PCI and HITRUST regulation a plus

Risk Strategies is the 9th largest privately held U.S. brokerage firm offering comprehensive risk management advice, insurance and reinsurance placement for property & casualty, employee benefits, private client services, as well as consulting services and financial & wealth solutions. With more than 30 specialty practices, Risk Strategies serves commercial companies, nonprofits, public entities, and individuals, and has access to all major insurance markets. Risk Strategies is an Accession Risk Management Group company, with over 200 offices and more than 5,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada.

Our industry recognition includes being named a Great Place to Work, Best Places to Work in Insurance, and on the Inc. 5000 list as one of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. We are committed to being good stewards for our company, culture, and communities by having a strong focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues.