Company Overview:
Acentra Health exists to empower better health outcomes through technology, services, and clinical expertise. Our mission is to innovate health solutions that deliver maximum value and impact.
Lead the Way is our rallying cry at Acentra Health. Think of it as an open invitation to embrace the mission of the company; to actively engage in problem-solving; and to take ownership of your work every day. Acentra Health offers you unparalleled opportunities. In fact, you have all you need to take charge of your career and accelerate better outcomes – making this a great time to join our team of passionate individuals dedicated to being a vital partner for health solutions in the public sector.
Job Summary and Responsibilities:

JOB SUMMARY:

The role of the Development Manager is to manage day-to-day supervision of assigned Developers, overseeing the delivery of application support and maintenance for assigned program in alignment with the subsystem(s) and affiliated COTS products. To provide leadership and PMO both written and verbal status reporting. Provide directions to the team members across all aspects of delivery”.

• Collaborate with the development team to provide day-to-day management and supervision of team members.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define and assess the development process across multiple facets of the program delivery.
• Understand team capabilities, processes, provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring to ensure quality delivery is achieved.
• Work with program director and PMO to align development resource allocations.
• Apply communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide the team on issues related to the design, development, security, and deployment of solutions and software systems.
• Manage multiple internal initiatives aimed at continually improving the development organization, its cross-training and onboarding programs, to ensure quality delivery with accurate estimation and timeline planning.
• Measure, enforce and improve coding standards and best practices.
• Aligning to a strong client service focus across the application and program development function.
• Responsible for facilitating administrative employee functions such as, performance management, evaluations, reviews, etc.
• Performs technical oversight and assessment of application and program development, development processes and people to ensure both program and corporate goals are met.
• Read, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security Rules.

The list of accountabilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other education- and experience-related duties that management may deem necessary from time to time.
Qualifications:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree (technology-related) or 10+ years of software development leadership and as related to job responsibilities
• 3+ years of people management and development leadership experience at large complex organizations (Matrix experience a plus).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated working experience collaborating with cross functional teams drawing consensus and documenting new standards and processes.
• Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and blended development methodologies experience
• Preferred working experience with Jira and SmartSheet
• Preferred experience in the healthcare industry – Medicaid (Provider, Claims, Pharmacy, EVV)
• Knowledge/past working experience of:
• OOP concepts, including at least 1 OOP language (Java preferred).
• Managing application development on Java Spring framework
• Various front-end technologies (HTML5, JQuery JavaScript, etc.)
• Relational & Non-relational databases.
• COTS products. (Oracle, Cognos, Oracle E-Business Suite, etc.)
• Power BI preferred, or similar metrics reporting tool
• Service-oriented or microservices architecture is strongly preferred.
• Expert level experience in COTS products (such as COGNOS, CRM, IVR, Oracle E-Business Suite, IBM DataStage, IBM Watson Analytics, Salesforce, PEGA, MuleSoft, Document Management Tools (FileNet, SharePoint), Oracle SOA, Pitney Bowes - EngageOne, EDIFECS - XEngine)”
• Good experience configuring application code on-premise and cloud infrastructure (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud, IBM cloud)

• Collaborate with the development team to provide day-to-day management and supervision of team members.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define and assess the development process across multiple facets of the program delivery.
• Understand team capabilities, processes, provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring to ensure quality delivery is achieved.
• Work with program director and PMO to align development resource allocations.
• Apply communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide the team on issues related to the design, development, security, and deployment of solutions and software systems.
• Manage multiple internal initiatives aimed at continually improving the development organization, its cross-training and onboarding programs, to ensure quality delivery with accurate estimation and timeline planning.
• Measure, enforce and improve coding standards and best practices.
• Aligning to a strong client service focus across the application and program development function.
• Responsible for facilitating administrative employee functions such as, performance management, evaluations, reviews, etc.
• Performs technical oversight and assessment of application and program development, development processes and people to ensure both program and corporate goals are met.
• Read, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security Rules