Software Development Engineer III, Member Data Management

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Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives 

Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.

To better serve our customers, we are fostering a culture that emphasizes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are dedicated to creating an environment where employees can excel and where top talent is attracted, retained, and thrives. As a testament to these efforts, Premera has been recognized on the 2025 America's Dream Employers list. Newsweek honored Premera as one of America's Greatest Workplaces, America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion, and America's Greatest Workplaces For Mental Well-Being, Forbes ranked Premera among America’s Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time.

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We are seeking a highly motivated, customer-focused Software Development Engineer to join Premera’s Member Data Management (MDM) team. If you are motivated to solve technical challenges and make a difference for our customers, then come join us!

This is a hybrid role located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace, WA.

What you’ll do: 

• Consult with business partners and IT leaders to assist in identifying and understanding problems or improvement opportunities, and recommend appropriate technologies, software, and system solutions that scale and perform.

• Analyze moderate to high-risk business needs to determine solutions. Design solutions on various platforms by studying requirements and information needs and recommending solution alternatives.

• Develop and modify code and system setup based on program specifications using multiple programming languages or system platforms.

• Perform testing using both unit testing and test automation and document test results.

• Produce appropriate technical documentation and notifications for changes to production systems or fixes to production problems. Create SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) artifacts.

• Analyze moderate to high-risk production problems, assess alternatives and work with team to implement solutions. Includes performance tuning, technical troubleshooting, debugging, call-rotation, and root cause analysis.

• Support project initiatives collaborating with the rest of the design team and stakeholders ensuring that development milestones and deadlines are met. Provide feedback on peer designs in an open and collaborative environment. Act as technical resource for team and share knowledge across Premera’s developer community. Collaborate with relevant personnel across Premera. May mentor or advise less experienced staff.

• Provide input to standardization of IT processes and ensure application of IT standard processes and requirements. Apply engineering best practices.

• Participate in educational opportunities to build new and additional skills and maintain technical knowledge staying current with trends and opportunities in the field and share knowledge gained with teammates.

What you’ll bring: 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems and (5-8) years of software development experience. At a minimum, must possess education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree plus (5) additional years of relevant experience, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and skills to utilize one or more programming languages.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with cloud solutions.

• Experience in the healthcare industry or a highly regulated environ