Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:

• Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least once per week
• Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month
• Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job
• Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building

Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per month.
This position is hybrid within the state of AZ only. This hybrid work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

• 2 years experience in the industry in similar technical leadership role
• 7 years of SOA/EAI/Middleware architecture, design and implementation experience
• 4 years of experience in the design, implementation and governance of systems architecture in a complex business applications environment
• 2 years of experience and background in software development and Agile methodologies

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

Required Licenses

• N/A

Required Certifications

• N/A

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Work Experience

• 5 years of advanced technical leadership and software engineering experience in .Net and Microsoft Technologies
• 2 years of exposure to cloud engineering, including experience with distributed system and datacenter operations, of large online services.
• 2 years of demonstrated success in building reliable and scalable systems software.
• 2 years of experience in cloud-based system design
• 2 years of experience in using and applying API, SOAP, WSDL, JSON, ESB, and XML based solutions.

Preferred Education

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Preferred Licenses

• N/A

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Technical Certifications; Cloud Architect Certification

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Contribute to all aspects of development life cycle, including identification of requirements, design, coding, performance tuning, unit testing, and will collaborate with other business and technical members to delivery high quality engineered software solutions. The Technical Lead is responsible for building enterprise scalable and highly performant application services to support critical enterprise systems and applications. The Technical Lead will be responsible for troubleshooting environment and coding problems, determining root cause and providing solutions to production issues. The Technical Lead will be an expert in advanced software engineering methods and techniques and a champion for improving software development practices and producing high quality software.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect, design, code, and lead the development of various systems and components.
• Collaborate with team members to review user stories and supporting requirements and translate them into a system design
• Follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models to ensure consistency
• Solve and articulate complex problems with application design and development
• Stay current with industry trends and evaluate feasible solutions
• Assure the proper change management protocols are followed to maximize benefit and alleviate unnecessary disruption to the organization and customers
• With management, establish and meet short- and long-term department goals in accordance with overall company objectives and divisional strategic planning.
• Assume leadership role in initiating and completing projects related to increased efficiencies, productivity, and quality.
• Review production and operating policies to ensure that the most efficient processes are in place and determine tactical plans to improve processes and services that can be streamlined and/or improved.
• Assist production support when required
• Independently maintain and develop complex systems and programs.
• Maintain an extensive knowledge of new developments in software engineering.
• Work with Management to prepare Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for software systems
• Assist in implementing new procedures, including workflows, manuals, and training materials.
• Coordinate and develop training materials for Programmers.
• Participate in technology planning
• Participate in the project prioritization process.
• Train new staff in the use, understanding, and configuration of the files, terms, and methods used in programming.
• Guide and mentor otherdevelopers in developing quality code
• Conduct code reviews
• The position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any additional hours as requested or as needed to meet business requirements.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.