Lead Software Developer Health Care C#.NET Remote

at  Providence Health Plan

DESCRIPTION

TThis position is remote and can sit in the footprint of Providence in the states of AK, WA, OR, CA, TX and MT.
The Software Developer Lead will oversee the daily activities of the Software Development team. In addition lead and coordinate technical activities involving complex system integrations. The Specialist category includes positions that perform a variety of technical administration, development, and support functions for Information Services. On-call support is a requirement for any Developer position. Developers are required to provide 24/7 on-call support on a rotational basis. The ability to respond to on-call issues within the Service Level Agreements (SLA) is a condition of employment. Issues that cannot be addressed remotely will require on site presence within the specific SLA times. Each IS employee is expected to possess an understanding of the Providence Health Plans and Information Services goals and strategies.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Providence Health Plan Partners and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Proactively manage system availability and performance to meet business needs.
• Lead and coordinate technical activities involving complex system integrations.
• Coordinate department resources and vendors to lead resolution of complex system issues.
• Verify correctness of software using manual and automated testing strategies. Verify performance of software using load testing and other strategies.
• Plan, schedule, assign, direct and review the work of others on daily or weekly basis.
• Provides expert advice regarding choices for tools and technical approaches.
• Provides final approval for technical and process standards.
• Documents departmental process workflows, systems designs and procedures.
• Resolve simple, informal complaints of team members and refer others to the Development Manager or other leadership as appropriate.
• Administers security for systems and developer tools.
• Help define, implement and audit development processes including code deployments, coding standards, source control standards, the RFC process, software application metadata management (Master Application Repository), extract documentation, OPSRUN Documentation, event scheduling & zero defect, Remedy / ITSM ticket resolution among others.
• Prepare technical project management documentation and manages activities to implement on time, within budget and within scope.
• Initiate team coordination in order to resolve multi team technical and project related issues.
• Take lead technical responsibility for one or more business critical systems.
• Provide peer review and mentorship to technical staff at all levels, involving updates with significant business impact.
• Communicate with and act as point person for application outages and impairments. Initiate team coordination to resolve multi team technical and project related issue.
• Research, learn and apply a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods and tools (such as TFS, MTM and ADS, etc.) to identify, assess, analyze and improve team effectiveness, efficiency and work products.
• Provide some vendor management, evaluate and provide input to development manager on vendors work performance.
• Occasionally facilitate team meetings and lead collaboration and problem solving sessions and technical project consultations for validating developer’s approach and task execution.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

General/object-oriented programming:

• Write modular code supporting ease of testing, maintenance, and extensibility.
• Apply object-oriented coding principles including: encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
• Guide standards for design pattern usage.
• Support modular, multi-tier application design by guiding development practices.
• Guide development standards supporting ease of application maintainability and extensibility.

Microsoft Visual Studio/C#.NET:

• Utilize Visual Studio to create and maintain code.
• Applied understanding of inheritance, interfaces, abstract classes, and access modifiers.
• Guide standards for data access tools and techniques.
• Deploy and configure .NET assemblies.
• Guide standards for effective troubleshooting tools and techniques.
• Guide standards for logging and other instrumentation approaches.

Data processing/Microsoft SQL Server:

• Create and maintain data processing applications using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Design relational data models.
• Guide best practices supporting performance and maintainability.
• Experience with Stored Procedures

Web development:

• Create and maintain web applications using ASP.NET/MVC.
• Configure Windows Server deployment targets (IIS/WAS).
• Create and maintain client side scripting including object oriented JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React.
• Guide standards for client-side scripting frameworks.
• Cloud Experience (AWS, AZURE)
• SSL Certificate Management
• Auth0 Integration Experience
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Experience
• Experience creating and consuming REST APIs in a managed environment such as MuleSoft.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Associate’s Degree plus 10 years of demonstrated software development experience in an enterprise environment
• Bachelor’s Degree plus 8 years of demonstrated software development experience in an enterprise environment
• Master’s Degree plus 6 years of demonstrated software development experience in an enterprise environment
• 10 or more years industry experience
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Experience creating and consuming REST APIs in a managed environment such as MuleSoft
• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): Experience with Informatica B2B
  The salary range listed for this position MIN:$55.29 to MAX:$89.02 per hour is based upon the primary work location XXX posted. This position is remote. Salary range and offers are determined by internal pay equity and geographic cost of living differences. Salary range will vary from State and region. Salary max is limited to 75% range in order to continue to offer internal pay growth. We welcome open and transparent discussions on salary at Providence.

• Proactively manage system availability and performance to meet business needs.
• Lead and coordinate technical activities involving complex system integrations.
• Coordinate department resources and vendors to lead resolution of complex system issues.
• Verify correctness of software using manual and automated testing strategies. Verify performance of software using load testing and other strategies.
• Plan, schedule, assign, direct and review the work of others on daily or weekly basis.
• Provides expert advice regarding choices for tools and technical approaches.
• Provides final approval for technical and process standards.
• Documents departmental process workflows, systems designs and procedures.
• Resolve simple, informal complaints of team members and refer others to the Development Manager or other leadership as appropriate.
• Administers security for systems and developer tools.
• Help define, implement and audit development processes including code deployments, coding standards, source control standards, the RFC process, software application metadata management (Master Application Repository), extract documentation, OPSRUN Documentation, event scheduling & zero defect, Remedy / ITSM ticket resolution among others.
• Prepare technical project management documentation and manages activities to implement on time, within budget and within scope.
• Initiate team coordination in order to resolve multi team technical and project related issues.
• Take lead technical responsibility for one or more business critical systems.
• Provide peer review and mentorship to technical staff at all levels, involving updates with significant business impact.
• Communicate with and act as point person for application outages and impairments. Initiate team coordination to resolve multi team technical and project related issue.
• Research, learn and apply a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods and tools (such as TFS, MTM and ADS, etc.) to identify, assess, analyze and improve team effectiveness, efficiency and work products.
• Provide some vendor management, evaluate and provide input to development manager on vendors work performance.
• Occasionally facilitate team meetings and lead collaboration and problem solving sessions and technical project consultations for validating developer’s approach and task execution