Senior Application Developer
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Keep substantive info. We need to parse the posting: Overview, Essential Functions General Duties & Responsibilities, Essential Functions Of Position Job Responsibilities, Job Specifications Specialized Knowledge/Skills, About You, Education/Experience, Work Environment/Physical Requirements, We Offer Benefits..., Legalese (remove). Also there is "Overview" at top. We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe from Overview), Responsibilities (from Essential Functions Of Position Job Responsibilities), Requirements (maybe from Job Specifications Specialized Knowledge/Skills), Qualifications (maybe from About You/Education/Experience), Skills (maybe from Specialized Knowledge/Skills also), Benefits (from We Offer Benefits...), Pay (not mentioned explicitly, so omit), Schedule (not mentioned, omit). Also maybe Work Environment? Not a standard heading; could be omitted or placed under About the role? The instruction: only use those headings; we can omit others. So we should not create a Work Environment heading. We can incorporate relevant info into About the role or Responsibilities if appropriate. But we must preserve all substantive information; we cannot drop info. However we can embed it under existing headings if appropriate. For example, work environment details could go under About the role or Responsibilities? Might be a stretch. But we must not invent headings; we can only use the allowed headings. If info doesn't fit any, we could still include it under a relevant heading like About the role (makes sense). Or we could create a
under About the role that includes work environment details. Similarly, Education/Experience could go under Qualifications. We must not include boilerplate like Legalese, EEO, etc. We must not include duplicated lines. We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information: overview, duties, responsibilities, job specifications, about you, education/experience, work environment, benefits. Let's extract substantive content: Overview: - We are looking for a Senior .NET Application Developer and DevOps Engineer (one role, multiple duties) to join our team to develop .NET and AI RAG applications. - You will report to the Senior Director of Applications and Data and provide solution designs and implementations in collaboration with other key stakeholders - Ability to create designs, recommend, implement, and oversee technical solutions in the following domains: custom application development, AI, DevOps (Azure DevOps preferred), data solutions (SQL Server, Databricks preferred) and application/data integration - Ability to document the current and future states as part of a multi-year roadmap and see that each project considers steps that should be taken to attain longer-term roadmap goals - Work with multiple vendors to implement and complete projects ensuring implementations are in line with multi-year solution roadmaps as appropriate - Provide support to Business Relationship Managers and end users as required - Provide backup support and input to both the data architect and solution architect roles Essential Functions General Duties & Responsibilities (list): - Adheres to Organization’s Policy and Procedures - Acts as a role model within and outside the Company - Performs duties as workload necessitates - Maintains a positive and respectful attitude - Communicates regularly with supervisor about Department issues and keeps management advised of potential problems in all areas - Demonstrates flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload - Consistently reports to work on time prepared to perform duties of position - Meets Department productivity standards - Participates in working groups, councils and committees. - Ensures compliance with rules and regulations. - Participates on committees, and special projects, and seeks additional responsibilities. - Accomplishes all tasks as appropriate. - Recommends new approaches to effect on-going continual improvements to policies, procedures, and documentation. - Maintains compliance with federal and state regulations. - Participates in administrative staff meetings and attends other meetings and seminars. - Performs other related duties as required and assigned - Consistently promotes the company’s core values. - Completes required annual Compliance training. Essential Functions Of Position Job Responsibilities (list): - Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance and direction to the development team, ensuring that projects align with business objectives. - Mentorship: Mentor and support other developers, helping them grow their skills and navigate challenges. - Coding and Review: Engage in hands-on coding and review the code submitted by team members and contractors to ensure quality and consistency. - Project Management: Oversee project timelines, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery of milestones. - Stakeholder Communication: Act as a bridge between the technical team and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and understanding. - Problem-Solving: Troubleshoot issues, debug applications, and run diagnostic tests to ensure smooth performance. - Quality Assurance: Conduct and/or oversee quality assurance testing and ensure that software products meet the required standards. - Ability to document current and future states as part of a multi-year roadmap and oversee technical project execution such that roadmap objectives are achieved - Work with the business, business analysts, data architect and data services director to help establish the processing and staging of both leading and lagging KPIs both for passive reporting and driving proactive data-driven behavior change - Collaborate with other teams for compliance with regulatory requirements and application & data security. Collaborate and work under the guidance of IS Security, Cloud infrastructure engineering and data services to set up access controls, data encryption, anonymity/data masking and additional security measures as needed - Collaborate and consult with operational teams to provide support - Oversee or direct involvement in completing various upgrade and migration projects - Work as a team with minimal oversight to complete complex projects - Work with multiple vendors to implement and complete projects - Communicate regularly with management concerning recommendations for improving systems, services, processes and support Job Specifications Specialized Knowledge/Skills: - Strong documentation skills and experience with creating architectural diagrams - Strong development skills in multiple languages suitable to the business problem at hand (prefer .NET, C#, SQL, python), AI frameworks and architectures, database design, enabling compelling build vs. buy options for the business - Strong skills in automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), cloud services, scripting, and collaboration to streamline development and operations processes. Azure DevOps preferred. - Prefer Azure-based development experience: Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory - Ability to work independently and in a team environment - Must possess strong written, oral and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate with outside vendors and internal staff, both at a technical and non-technical level - Detail and deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and multi-task - Flexible and responsive to changing business needs - Must be able to take ownership, and drive towards goal completion and deadlines. About You: - Minimum of an Associates Degree in MIS or Computer Science but will accept relevant experience to produce the needed outcomes - 5-8+ years experience in solution design, development and implementations – will consider less with the right experience, aptitude, abilities - Strong full stack programming skills with strong preference for .NET technologies - You are a systems thinker who can independently take ill-formed problems, refine the requirements and be able to translate those requirements into an enterprise grade systems - Experience in AI-related application development strongly preferred - Familiarity with various development tools and technologies - Ability to create designs, implement and oversee the implementation of solutions that span data, applications, enterprise workflow, automation and application integration - Knowledge of Database design, development, web application frameworks and DevOps - Able to recommend, oversee and guide contractors to build solutions that not only meet the business requirements at hand, but also follow Gentiva standards and lead to the fulfilment of a multi-year strategic roadmap - Able to obtain business requirements and map them to documented standardized technical designs that achieve functional and non-functional requirements, properly selecting the correct solution components supporting both short term and long-term goals - Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and monitoring of applications, ensuring rapid and reliable software delivery - Work closely with development, QA functions, and operations teams to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and ensure seamless integration of new features - Understand how to remediate and avoid technical debt, and how to architect solutions that are supportable, maintainable and move us forward toward multi-year roadmap objectives - Experience in managing projects, setting timelines, and ensuring that goals are met - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address and resolve technical issues - Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders - Ability to manage conflicts and make strategic decisions. Education/Experience: - Bachelor’s Degree in MIS or Computer Science is preferred or Associates degree with needed experience. Exceptions based on experience. - Broad experience with design and hands on implementation of databases, web application development, solution designs, DevOps tools and practices, enterprise workflow (preferred), and application integration (preferred) Work Environment/Physical Requirements: - Work from home environment. Must be able to connect to MS Teams meetings/and have stable network connection - Must be able to support video conferencing during the workday to connect to the management, team, and peer workforce - Some stress may occur - No travel expected unless for a conference or a rare special need arises - Must be able to work some nights/weekends as special needs arise - While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, and to speak and hear. The employee is required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. - Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. We Offer Benefits For All Associates (Full-Time, Part-Time & Per Diem): - Competitive Pay - 401(k) with Company Match - Career Advancement Opportunities - National & Local Recognition Programs - Teammate Assistance Fund Additional Full-Time Benefits: - Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance - Mileage Reimbursement or Fleet Vehicle Program - Generous Paid Time Off + 7 Paid Holidays - Wellness Programs (Telemedicine, Diabetes Management, Joint & Spine Concierge Care) - Education Support & Tuition Assistance (ASN to BSN, BSN to MSN) - Free Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - Company-paid Life & Long-Term Disability Insurance - Voluntary Benefits (Pet, Critical Illness, Accident, LTC) Legalese etc to remove. Now we need to map to sections. Section headings allowed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. About the role: could contain overview and maybe work environment? But work environment maybe better under About the role as it's about the role context. Could also be under Responsibilities? Probably About the role is appropriate for overview and work environment. Responsibilities: combine Essential Functions General Duties & Responsibilities and Essential Functions Of Position Job Responsibilities (both are responsibilities). Could merge. Requirements: maybe the hard requirements like experience, education, etc. Could be from About You and Education/Experience. Qualifications: maybe similar to Requirements? Might be redundant. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But we must use headings only when there is real specific content. We could have both if we can differentiate. However the posting doesn't separate qualifications vs requirements clearly. Could treat Requirements as "Minimum qualifications" (education, experience) and Qualifications as "Preferred qualifications" (Bachelor's preferred, etc). But we need to avoid filler. Better approach: Use About the role (overview + work environment), Responsibilities (all duties), Requirements (mandatory: Associates degree, 5-8+ years experience, strong full stack .NET, etc), Qualifications (preferred: Bachelor's degree, Azure experience, etc), Skills (technical skills: .NET, C#, SQL, python, AI frameworks