Lead Software Engineer IV - APIs

Department Name:

IT Info Tech Admin-Corp

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Information Technology

Banner Health was named to Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America 2025 list for the third consecutive year and named to Newsweek's list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row. We’re proud to be recognized for our commitment to the latest health care advancements and excellent patient care.

The Integration Platform Engineering team builds and operates the foundational integration capabilities that connect Banner Health’s digital experiences, clinical systems, enterprise applications, and technology platforms. Our team is responsible for developing secure, scalable Process and System APIs, microservices, API gateway capabilities, and event-driven integrations that allow technology teams across Banner to deliver reliable solutions faster. We establish the engineering standards, reusable patterns, security controls, observability, and platform capabilities that enable consistent integration across the enterprise, with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and supporting Banner Health’s mission of making healthcare easier so life can be better.

As a Lead Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership while designing and delivering modern API and microservices solutions in a cloud-based environment. Your day may include leading technical design discussions, developing APIs and services, reviewing code and architecture, troubleshooting complex production issues, improving CI/CD and observability, working with API gateways and identity/security patterns, and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices. You will collaborate closely with architects, product teams, security, DevSecOps, infrastructure, QA, and other engineering teams to take solutions from design through production. The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer who is comfortable remaining hands-on while also providing technical direction, challenging designs when necessary, solving complex problems, and helping raise the engineering capability of the entire team. This position is fully remote and operates Monday through Friday, 9AM to 5PM - AZ TIME. To be eligible, candidates must reside in one of the following states: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, or WY. Please note that candidates residing outside of these states will not be considered for this opportunity.

Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options, so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is a highly experienced individual contributor in Development Operations. The position will lead a project team to perform the tasks necessary to analyze, design, configure, implement and support PaaS solutions, related services, processes, applications, and integrations. This will involve influencing IT functional areas, product owners and vendors to develop detailed design, execution and troubleshooting of strategic solutions in support of these systems. The position leads the efforts of resolving application and configuration issues/concerns, providing ongoing analysis of performance, implementation of approved changes, and ensuring continual service improvements. Will be responsible for Architect Cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities. Responsible for all aspects of application production support, deployment and monitoring and develop tools to support these activities. Leads mission critical applications and associated platforms, ensuring the highest levels of availability, security, performance and stability are always maintained. Designs and builds tools and solutions with a strong bias towards automating as many aspects of support as possible to reduce or eliminate trivial support activities.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Anticipates internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve services, processes or products. Manages projects or programs. Recognized as an expert within the organization and within their field or function.

2. Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. Presents complex ideas, anticipates potential objectives and persuades others to adopt a different point of view.

3. Develops innovative services, technologies, processes or products that address current and future customer problems or needs. Interacts primarily with customers, peers, peers’ managers, patients and physicians across the organization.

4. Makes decisions with general functional, company and industry guidelines. May manage budget for large and/or complex projects or programs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working knowledge.

Must have in-depth knowledge of concepts within job function as would normally be obtained in eight to twelve years' work experience developing Enterprise Applications. Must possess strong knowledge of programming and cloud technology. Needs experience in medium scale project planning. Successful candidate will have skills to mentor less experienced team members. Requires strong communication and presentation skills to explain and resolve complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences. Requires ability to influence and interact across facilities and at various levels. As is typical in this industry, variable shifts and hours and carrying/responding to a pager may be required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Cloud platform Certifications: AZ-301, AZ-400, and AZ-500. Significant development and operations / engineering experience with the ability to apply that knowledge to solve complex problems. Three to four years' experience implementing Enterprise Cloud Solutions. Strong working knowledge of Java/C++/C#/.Net Core, hardware environment, and use of program logic.

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Estimated Pay Range:

$53.63 - $89.38 / hour

Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay Banner Health in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

This range is based on possible base salaries and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location, along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure pay equity is achieved and maintained.



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