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**Job Summary** Molina Healthcare is seeking a Principal Engineer, Applications (Pega) to lead and elevate our enterprise application landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced, self-motivated professional with 20+ years of technology and software development experience, including deep expertise in Pega-based solutions and enterprise system design. As a senior technical leader, you will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineering teams, and ensure that our applications are scalable, secure, and aligned with strategic objectives. *****must be willing to work PST hours** **Key Responsibilities** - Designs and builds company specific enterprise application systems and technology expertise across multiple disciplines for enterprise-level Pega applications. - Applies and promotes key principles (e.g. stability, scalability, performance, security, compatibility, re-use), helping ensure a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions. - Considers business problems "end-to-end": including people, process, and technology, both within and outside the enterprise, as part of any design solution. - Promotes the use of industry and enterprise technology standards. - Monitors emerging technologies for potential application within or across the Corporation. - Adheres to design and application development standards, methodology and, framework within Architectural compliance and governance. - Guide and mentor development teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning. - Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to long-term digital transformation efforts. **Knowledge/Skills/Abilities** - Extensive hands-on experience with Pega application development, including architecture and design patterns. - Practices and leads SW and applications design and development methodologies in adherence to SW development standards. - Designs and develops SW applications or systems solving specific business or processing problems. - Gathers business requirements and develops conceptual design and technical design for multiple projects concurrently. - Works closely with Architects and business teams to align application systems design and development with the enterprise strategic direction. - Builds relationships with IT leadership, technical teams (applications, infrastructure and others), vendors etc. to understand and solve problems. - Provides leadership and direction to the engineers in the team and across the enterprise. - Develop software (hands on code development) to meet key business objectives. - Conducts peer review of other developers (internal and contract staff) to ensure standards and quality. - Responsible for quality deliveries for self and application engineers. Participates in build vs. buy evaluation process. - Leads architecture and design discussions in adherence to SW development standards. - Provides design and architectural expertise on application systems / technologies, to both technical teams and business partners. - Responsible for supporting the application system / service owner for system performance, budgeting and planning. - Responsible for application system stability and scalability related activities. - Responsible for alignment with project methodologies and change management processes. - Responsible for organizing, managing and leading cross-team project tasks and deliverables. - Responsible for designing and building enterprise level application systems. - Responsible for presentations and solutions submitted to technical and business review committees. - Responsible for understanding the business area being supported by the team and the company's overall business. - Ownership to provide cross-organization teamwork, collaboration, communication and leadership. - Provides constructive feedback on people, process and technology for continuous improvement. **Job Qualifications** - 20+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering, with a focus on application development and system integration. - Strong knowledge of system architecture, enterprise integration, and cloud technologies. - Proven leadership in large-scale solution delivery and cross-functional collaboration. - Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization. **Required Education** - Bachelor's Degree in relevant field **Required Experience** - 5+ years of demonstrated leadership experience. - 15+ years of hands-on technical implementation experience in mid to large IT Enterprise environments involving Pega. - 20+ years of IT technical experience with IT enterprise infrastructure. **Desired License, Certification and Experience** - Pega Decisioning and Gen AI knowledge preferred. - Pega LSA certifications highly preferred. To all current Molina employees: If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply through the intranet job listing. Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V. Pay Range: $107,028 - $250,446 / ANNUAL *Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level.

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