Specialist, Application Developer II

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey’s health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience.

About the Role

Highly experienced technical leader who designs, develops, and maintains highly complex software applications with intra/interdependencies. They often lead teams and provide technical expertise to ensure projects meet business expectations while adhering to Horizon architectural standards.

Responsibilities

• Review highly complex business requirement documents/user stories and translate into technical specifications/user stories while following Horizon’s development methodology standards.
• Work from technical specifications to develop, modify and maintain highly complex software products, including unit and system testing. The developed products will have dependencies on other internal and external applications and will require cross functional collaboration.
• Follow, enforce, and mentor team on Horizon’s standardized code development, deployment, security protocols/standards and SDLC practices (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Kanban).
• Act as a leader within the team and drive DevOps best practices. Track metrics with quarterly reviews to pulse the efficiency of the development team.
• May run innovation projects such as hack-a-thons.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex cross functional problems and make recommendations for remediation.
• Lead production support as required, including but not limited to performing production support service requests and routine maintenance and support activities.
• Provide status updates to management on deliverables and projects.
• Lead design, code and infrastructure reviews to ensure high quality outcomes.
• Lead architecture discussions to ensure alignment to Horizon standards/patterns.
• Mentor junior staff. Assign work and direct staff in the production of work product while promoting teamwork both internal and external to the organization.
• Lead and manage interactions with external vendors to drive solutions and monitor deliverables. Directly interact with internal customers and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Formulate and manage system scope, objectives and cost for assigned projects.
• Perform production support or deployment/checkout for applications during off-hours as needed.

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree required or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience preferred.
• Experience with Power BI highly preferred.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP highly preferred.
• Consulting skills highly preferred.
• Experience with data warehouse (Snowflake, DataBricks, RedShift).
• Professional certification in area of expertise a plus.

Skills

• Requires expert knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Kanban).
• Experience with an analytics tool (Power BI, Tableau, etc.).
• Requires advanced knowledge of object-oriented languages.
• Requires advanced knowledge of markup languages.
• Requires knowledge of relational database management systems.
• Demonstrates understanding of core business functions.
• Demonstrates ability to apply structure to a loosely defined problem.
• Requires strong interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate with teams and break down complex technical information into simple language for non-technical personnel and also communicate technical information to security, architects and others.
• Requires expert proficiency in application programming and proficiency in SQL.
• Requires excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Requires fundamental critical thinking and problem-solving skill with attention to detail.
• Requires ability to quickly adapt and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Requires excellent organizational and time management skills and ability to work independently without supervision while leading others.
• Requires ability to handle multiple tasks while also supporting others.
• Requires experience with MS Office tools including Visio.
• Prefers experience with Jira/Confluence.
• Requires ability to lead globally distributed team.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision).
• Retirement Plans.
• Generous PTO.
• Incentive Plans.
• Wellness Programs.
• Paid Volunteer Time Off.
• Tuition Reimbursement.

Pay

Salary Range $109,600 - $149,625. This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity.

Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware.