Software Developer Principal

Software Developer Principal

Transform technology into opportunity as a Software Developer Principal at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor degree in Computer Science, engineering or related field.
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience.
• US Citizenship Required: No.

Responsibilities

• As a Software Developer Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the North Carolina State MMIS program. You will play a crucial role in transforming the mainframe COBOL Medicaid Claims processing application to a modernized Java AWS hosted application.
• Support the claims development team to modernize the claims processing application.
• Utilize knowledge of AWS AI based mainframe modernization technologies to create real‑time and batch programs for Claims processing.
• Work with the existing NCTracks development team to support current R&M activities on the Claims development team.
• Most critical skill is AWS Developer certification and strong Java development experience.
• Must also have mainframe COBOL development experience in a Medicaid MMIS system or an Insurance Industry environment.
• Role may be performed remotely within the Continental US, but occasional travel to Raleigh, NC (once a month) may be required.

Required Technical Skills

• Must have current AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) certification.
• Experience with AI models for software development.
• 8+ years of hands‑on full‑stack experience, designing and developing enterprise‑level Web Applications, Web Services and APIs using Java, J2EE, and XML.
• Experience with migration of COBOL code to AWS in a Medicaid or large enterprise COBOL based applications.
• Experience developing Struts, Spring MVC, Spring batch, Angular, Node or any other JS Frameworks, Java‑script and jQuery.
• Experience developing Web Services and working with XML, JSON, SOAP/REST APIs, JAX‑WS.
• Experience in managing App/Web servers/Containers like JBOSS, Tomcat, WebLogic or WebSphere.
• Experience with cloud native architecture and development in either AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience working with IDEs (Eclipse or NetBeans or IBM Data Studio or Any point Studio), source control systems (Subversion or Git preferred), and defect tracking systems.
• Experience with Continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Team City or RTC), Monitoring/alerting tools.
• Experience in building advanced automated and integrated acceptance tests using modern techniques and tools (e.g. SoapUI, Selenium).
• Experience developing SQL, PL/SQL and Stored Procedures with Oracle or IBM DB2 or MS SQL Server Databases.
• Experience working with Agile methodology.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and protocols (IP/TCP/UDP/DNS/HTTP).
• Strong mentoring skills with excellent communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies.
• Self‑motivated.

Desired Technical Skills

• Knowledge of AWS AI tools like AWS Transform and Agentic AI tools like Kiro.
• Experience in using JMS Queue and Topics for building messaging related solutions.
• Experience using MuleSoft Anypoint Studio, MULE ESB, JMS, MULE MMC, Active MQ, Kafka, JPA, designing using API’s Led Architecture.
• Experience with healthcare and healthcare insurance solutions and information architectures, especially Medicaid or similar industry.
• Experience working with HIPAA healthcare data and X12 transactions (834, 837, 820, 835, 270/271, 276/277, 278, 999).
• Experience designing, developing, securing and managing APIs via API Gateways and proxies using platforms such as MuleSoft or Apigee.

Compensation & Benefits

The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and contractual requirements and could fall outside this range.

Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision plans; 401(k) with company match; paid time off; and additional policies such as short/long‑term disability, life, accidental death, critical illness, and travel insurance.

Travel Required: None. Telecommuting Options: Hybrid.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans