Sr. Software Engineer

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 and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate 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.
• Develops and implements program/system test plans. Devises data verification methods and standard system procedures.
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems.
• May conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and support management in budgeting and purchasing efforts.
• Acts as expert technical resource to development staff in all phases of the development and implementation process.

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

• 1 year - Experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards required
• 5 years - Systems and programming experience 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
• Proven analysis, design, and coding skills, and demonstrated success in leading large and complex projects
• Top level technical experience in one or more specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and translate technical and/or or complex concepts into information meaningful to project team members and/or business personnel.
• Be organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks with exceptional work ethic.
• Leadership skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers

Job Specific Requirements: 

• Mentorship of junior level developers
• Ability to oversee projects to completion on time.
• Production Oncall support is critical to the team and must support and resolve the issues within the SLAs.
• Good understand and experience working with C# and .Net
• Ability to work with business units to gather requirements, build system specifications, interpret and translate to technical solution.
• Ability to work with both external Vendors and Internal teams and resolve the issues timely.
• 3 years of experience using T-SQL with emphasis on data analysis, SQL tuning and stored procedures.
• 3 years of experience with data mapping, database testing, analyzing results and reporting.
• Able to work independently and also in the team setting.
• Experience with PowerShell scripting and VBscript is a plus.
• Experience with test driven development is a plus.
• HIPPA standards experience PREFERRED.
• Claims processing knowledge PREFERRED
• Health care experience with Facets, Medicare, Medicaid Knowledge is a PLUS.

Preferred Skills:

Number of Openings Available:

1

Worker Type:

Employee

Company:

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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