Associate Software Engineer II

Provides application design, analysis, programming, testing and documentation for the development, integration, enhancement, and maintenance of information systems solutions.

Job Description:

Job Responsibilities

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research to design, develop, modify, or integrate moderately complex information systems.
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results.
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts.
• Must be competent to work on most phases of applications systems analysis, and must maintain technical skill set for software languages, databases, platforms, operating systems, etc.
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems.
• Provides services to multiple project teams or management staff, provides guidance to less-experienced programmers, and may conduct presentations to provide end users with knowledge to maximize their use of developed systems.
• May serve one or more project team roles, such as project lead, business systems analyst, or technical lead, for small to medium efforts.

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Job Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested.

Experience

• 2 years - Experience in programming required
• 1 year - Experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards required
• 1 year - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language in use at BCBST.

Skills\Certifications

• Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Job Specific Requirements: 

• Software development and maintenance using C#.Net  or another compiled Object-Oriented Programming language. MS SQL Server querying and development
• Windows server systems troubleshooting and administration experience. Web services troubleshooting and maintenance using tools like Postman
• Agile and DevSecOps pipeline code deployment using Git, Jenkins, Azure Devops or similar tools
• Functional requirements elicitation and translation of business rules into logic and technology solutions.  Formal testing experience a plus.
• Medium size project management experience upgrading Windows servers and databases is a plus
• A self-motivated and persistent learner that can absorb knowledge and immediately translate to technology solutions

Preferred Skills:

Number of Openings Available:

1

Worker Type:

Employee

Company:

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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