Application Developer, Consultant

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The IT Health Solutions Health Data Strategy team is responsible for delivering on various initiatives including the Digital Health Record and health data exchanges with vendor partners. The Full Stack Engineer will report to the IT Applications Sr. Manager over Health Data Strategy. In this role you will be deeply involved in the design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality software solutions.

You 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 will implement and enforce Dev Sec Ops  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.

• Design and develop user interfaces and application programs 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, 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.
• Possesses and applies a broad range of expertise of principles and practices for complex assignments and for leading team members.
• Recommends and pursues improvements to processes to enhance application functionality and reliability.
• Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.
• Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends.
• Facilitates training for team members and guides them as required.
• Has strong communication skills and can speak to all levels within the organization.
• Has overall technical responsibility for the applications/interfaces/processes within their domain.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience), with a minimum of 7 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 on…