Senior Application Developer

About the role

This job is an integral member of a software engineering team responsible for building scalable software applications across all digital channels to serve our customers. The incumbent will be responsible for taking an enterprise-wide, architectural view of the solutions and the technical execution of products using the technical stack that best meets the needs of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Takes a lead role for analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing more complex application enhancements, as well as providing general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
• Utilizes and participates in the more complex full system development life cycle, per current Highmark SDLC standards.
• Takes a lead role in collaborating with customers, business analysts, partners, and IT team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. Concentrates on providing innovative solutions to more complex business needs.
• Takes a lead role in providing required technical support, including release implementations, on-call and 24x7 supports when necessary.
• Performs work in compliance with all Highmark and Highmark IT standards, policies and procedures.
• Actively takes a leading role and participates on project teams in various project roles, including, but not limited to, Developer, Technical Lead and Project Manager, based upon level of experience.
• Effectively communicates with team members, customers, partners and management, including assisting with or conducting more complex technical walkthroughs, reporting project status, enabling vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.

Requirements

• Required: 5 years of experience as a developer
• Required: Experience with Project Management tools
• Required: Experience with databases
• Required: Multiple coding languages experience
• Preferred: 7+ years of working with a variety of technology systems, designing solutions or developing applications in healthcare
• Preferred: 5+ years of experience with HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services, MSSQL, Windows Server
• Preferred: 5+ years of translating design mockups, prototypes and user stories into working applications
• Preferred: 5+ years of ability to produce code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
• Preferred: 1+ year of working with Machine Learning, esp. in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related field
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related field

Skills

• Problem solving, root cause analysis, and issue resolution
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience in Healthcare or Health Insurance Industry
• Experience with technology platforms, application development tools, business processes, software development life cycle used by Highmark enterprise
• Language (Other Than English): None

Physical, Mental Demands and Working Conditions

• Position Type: Office-based
• Teaches / trains others regularly
• Occasionally Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site
• Rarely Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)
• Never Physical work site required
• Lifting up to 10 pounds: Constantly
• Lifting 10 to 25 pounds: Occasionally
• Lifting 25 to 50 pounds: Rarely

Pay

Pay Range: Minimum $86,400.00, Maximum $138,600.00