Application Developer, Senior
Blue Shield of CaliforniaAbout the role
Your Role
The Payer Systems Applications team plays a critical role in enhancing customer and technical collaboration while delivering all application development through a Platform and Technology Product Operation Model. The Full Stack Engineer, Senior will report to the Director, IT Product Management. In this role you will be deeply involved in the design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality software solutions. Your role will focus on integrating security and automation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with an emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code and building infrastructure that supports CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud-native delivery. You'll implement and enforce DevSecOps best practices tailored for Azure, contribute to infrastructure as code, and work closely with developers, testers, and cloud engineers to ensure code is secure, scalable, and production-ready from day one. This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about code quality, automation, and secure cloud development. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
This role specifically is planned to join our Provider Network Management feature team as part of our Core Health Plan Platform.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, deploy, and troubleshoot user interfaces, application programs, and automation using technical specifications and design documents, with a focus on cloud-native solutions and modern frameworks.
- Develop the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
- Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, delivering test and process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features.
- Recommend and implement improvements to departmental processes to enhance agility and efficiency.
- Enhance the reliability, scalability, and utilization of systems and applications through continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
- Monitor and manage software configuration changes to anticipate and address data reliability and customer satisfaction issues, leveraging cloud monitoring tools and practices.
- Coordinate sustaining support for multiple application platforms or business processes, ensuring seamless integration and operation in a cloud environment.
- Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand user behavior and automation opportunity
- Present and participate in solution reviews
- Establish and promote design and development best practices
- Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience), with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in enterprise application support and cloud-based solution delivery.
- Proven hands-on experience in the design, coding, integration, and deployment of applications, test automation, and automation solutions in the cloud
- Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform and low code/no code application development
- Strong scripting and automation skills using tools such as PowerShell, Windows Shell, Linux Shell, Jython, and Python.
- Solid SQL knowledge and working knowledge of web services automation (RESTful API, XML, JSON)
- Programming experience with Java, Groovy, Python, or C#
- Experience in UI automation with Web and Windows desktop applications
- Familiarity with market leading Robotics Process Automation tools/platforms is a plus
- Working knowledge of Git version control system
- Hands-on experience with Windows and Linux server platforms
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions) and Infrastru
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