POSITION SUMMARY: Reporting to the Senior Director of Business Solutions Development, the Senior Systems Developer is an integral part of the team and is responsible for the following:

Essential Functions:

• Partners with Business Analysts and Project Managers to understand and translate the Business Requirements  into pragmatic technical solutions
• On every assigned project, relentlessly evaluates existing applications and processes throughout the DDRI enterprise in order to recommend solutions to refactor and modernize the application
• Documents and presents each solution, as well as, peer-review other teammates’ solutions
• Rapidly prototypes and proves solutions using the latest and most-appropriate technologies on the Microsoft stack or open-source alternative
• Collaborates with various members of the CIO Office team to implement solutions
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems.  Experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: A background in a managed-care or payer-side organization is advantageous, however, experience in a high-transaction environment where continual uptime of the systems is required.  Backgrounds in the following industries will be preferred: insurance, financial services, retail, or banking organizations.        Technology consulting or similar business experience is also relevant and will be considered.        Desired additional experience includes:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience reflecting abilities to develop and support large-scale, complex projects
• Claims processing systems and managed care applications development experience is highly-desirable
• Demonstrated project experience with regard to SDLC; estimating, task-planning, coding, and deliverables
• Experience developing technical requirements based on business priorities
• Communication skills - Must be able to translate and communicate technology needs to non-technical colleagues in clear, understandable business language
• Technical leadership. As a technical lead, this position will be sought for guidance, support, and research for complex software solutions. A solid background in software development and either managed care or insurance will help put these things into context
• Vendor relations. Demonstrated experience working with contractors is required
• Innovative. The Senior Systems Developer must stay on top of emerging technology trends and have the ability to make concise cost/benefit cases to the Director of Business Solutions Development in order to introduce cost-effective changes

• TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE: Experience and knowledge in developing large, scalable and distributed applications with several years of hands-on .NET (4.5 or higher) development experience including:

• Microsoft .net Frameworks: LINQ, WCF
• IIS and ASP.net MVC
• Entity Framework
• Web Services (WCF or AJAX)
• Microsoft DEVOPS / GIT experience or thorough understanding of similar source control systems
• Build and deployment process and automation

• Demonstrated strong knowledge, experience, and proficiency in the following technologies:

• Object Oriented Development
• WCF, C#.NET, ASP.Net, ADO.Net
• HTML, DHTML, CSS
• XML, XSLT, XSD, XPATH
• High degree of comfort working with JQuery, JSON, and JavaScript
• Test-driven development and xUnit Frameworks
• Java background in patterns previous to .NET is plus
• Services Oriented Architecture & Enterprise Application Patterns
• Practitioner of the Principles & Patterns of Agile Software
• Working knowledge of GoF Design Patterns
• Oracle PL/SQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a plus
• Software quality and testing procedures
• Mobile App development (iOS and Android) is a plus
• Microsoft Azure is a plus
• Microsoft SharePoint Server is a plus
• Microsoft BizTalk Server and BizTalk Deployment Framework a plus

Work Environment / Physical Demands:

Typical office environment