Software Development Engineer IV

** Workforce Classification:
** Hybrid
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** Software Development Engineer IV**, you will perform a pivotal role in ensuring the success of enterprise software development projects by providing technical leadership, team guidance, and oversight to our development teams. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, communication skills, leadership abilities, and the capability to monitor project outcomes and make data-driven decisions to enhance the delivery of software.

The ideal candidate will have a mix of technical depth, leadership, and AI awareness.
** This is a hybrid role located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace, WA.
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* What you’ll do:

*** Define, design, and implement feature development with focus on technical direction, quality, usability, and performance leveraging data to make decisions.
* Partner with business and IT leaders to identify and understand multi-faceted problems or improvement opportunities.
* Partner with the development teams, business partners, architecture, and customers to understand project requirements, provide technical excellence and oversight, and resolve technical challenges guaranteeing code quality.
* Participate in live site operations with emphasis on timely response, delivery, and satisfaction for customers.
* Serve as the primary engineering and strategic implementation partner, ensuring clear, effective, and timely communication.
* Oversee the review process of code, ensuring compliance with best practices, Premera standards, and architectural guidelines. Responsible for vendor oversight and code sign-off, ensuring an effective relationship and high-quality outcomes of vendor work.
* Monitor key performance indicators and ensure successful project outcomes.
* Analyze project data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern, and make data-driven recommendations to enhance the delivery of software.
* Train and enforce governance processes to ensure compliance with company standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements.
* Oversee engineering excellence and continuous automation. This includes testing associated with cross-functional project team and in-team efforts.
* Sign off appropriate technical or architectural documentation and ensure notifications for changes to production systems or fixes to production problems are completed and that SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) artifacts were created.
* Act as technical and business leader sharing knowledge and expertise with others inside team as well as with other customers. Proactively contributes to knowledge sharing across Premera developer community.
* Stay current in best practices, technology trends and the organization’s business while mentoring and sharing knowledge gained with others. Maintain expertise in one or more technical areas. Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers.
** What you’ll bring:
**** Required Qualifications
*** Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.* (8) years of software development experience, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and skills to utilize one or more programming languages.
** Preferred Qualifications*** (3) years of experience as a technical lead delivering end to end solutions.
* Expert level knowledge in C# and SQL.
* Good understanding…