Healthcare .NET Senior Application Developer - HNAS

Overview

Highmark Inc.

- HNAS (Health Now Administrative Services) offers flexible, cost-effective solutions for employee health benefits. HNAS is part of Highmark Health, a national blended health organization with a mission to create remarkable health experiences. Our culture emphasizes growth and development, collaboration, and making a big impact for those we serve.

This role takes the lead in providing more complex application development services, typically as part of a project team or in an application support context. Developers analyze, design, code, test and implement more complex solutions to meet customer requirements that adhere to Highmark IT standards and policies. They provide general support to maintain more complex applications that meet service levels, system availability, performance and quality objectives.

May mentor less experienced team members.

• Takes a lead role for analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing more complex application enhancements, and provides general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
• Utilizes and participates in the more complex full system development life cycle, per current Highmark SDLC standards.
• Takes a lead role in collaborating with customers, business analysts, partners, and IT team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. Focuses on delivering innovative solutions to more complex business needs.
• Takes a lead role in providing required technical support, including release implementations, on-call and 24x7 support when necessary.
• Performs work in compliance with all Highmark and Highmark IT standards, policies and procedures.
• Actively takes a leading role and participates on project teams in various project roles, including Developer, Technical Lead and Project Manager, based on level of experience.
• Effectively communicates with team members, customers, partners and management, including assisting with or conducting more complex technical walkthroughs, reporting project status, enabling vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related field

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related field

Required

• 5 years of experience as a developer
• Experience with Project Management tools
• Experience with databases
• Experience with multiple coding languages

Preferred

• Healthcare experience is strongly preferred
• .NET
• SQL

• Problem solving, root cause analysis, and issue resolution
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience in Healthcare or Health Insurance Industry
• Experience with technology platforms, application development tools, business processes, and software development life cycle used by Highmark enterprise

Language (Other than English): None

Travel Requirement: 0% - 25%

Position Type Office-based

Teaches / trains others regularly:
Occasionally

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or site-to-site:
Rarely

Works primarily out-of-the-office selling products/services (sales employees):
Never

Physical work site required:
Yes

Lifting: up to 10 pounds:
Constantly

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds:
Occasionally

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds:
Rarely

Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

Compliance Requirement
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This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.

As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with HIPAA…