Associate Application Developer

Company :enGen Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

Candidates must reside in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area or within a reasonable commuting distance to Pittsburgh. While the role is fully remote, the ability to travel to distribution centers within the Pittsburgh area for AHN customer support is a mandatory requirement.

Assists in providing less complex application development services typically as part of a project team or in an application support role. Developers assist, analyze, design, code, test and implement less complex systematic solutions to meet customer requirements that adhere to Highmark IT standards and policies. Developers assist in providing less complex general support to maintain applications that meet the service levels, system availability, performance and quality levels required by their customers.

• Responsible for assisting in analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing less complex application enhancements, as well as providing general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
• Utilizes and participates in the full system less complex development life cycle, per current Highmark SDLC standards.
• Assists 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. Concentrates on providing less complex innovative solutions to business needs.
• Assists in providing required technical support, including release implementations, on-call and 24x7 supports when necessary.
• Performs work in compliance with all Highmark and Highmark IT standards, policies and procedures.
• Assists and actively participates on project teams in various project roles, including, but not limited to, Developer, Technical Lead and Project Manager, based upon level of experience.
• Effectively communicates with team members, customers, partners and management, including assisting with or conducting less complex technical walkthroughs, reporting project status, enabling Vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Required

• High School / GED

• None

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Required

• 0 - 1 year in Information Technology or related field
• Familiarity with the Healthcare or Health Insurance industry
• Familiarity with technology platforms, application development tools, business processes, software development life cycle used by Highmark enterprise

Preferred

• Demonstrable proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (e.g., Java, C#, Python) and an understanding of object-oriented programming principles.

Required

• None

Preferred

• JAVA Developer, DB2 Certification, Cognos Certification

• Problem solving, root cause analysis, and issue resolution
• Demonstrated leadership skills

A Developer is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill sets are reviewed approximately every other year; new skills may be required to meet changing business needs.

• IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing
• COBOL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS
• Java/JavaScript Framework
• PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML, Business Object, .net

• Waterfall
• Agile
• Rational

• Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management, Certified Quality Analyst (CQA), Scrum Master Certification, Lean/Six Sigma

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 from site-to-site

Occasionally

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…