Automation and Release Engineer

Responsibilities

• Builds, configures, customizes and supports products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
• Key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
• Leads architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software;

this may often require independent research and study.

• Leads teams that develop high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
• Champions writing highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and creates a team culture of documenting everything.
• Drives code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers.
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, QA and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
• Scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
• Foresees and assesses impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
• Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.
• Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
• Maintains knowledge, ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science and / or equivalent technical education and experience.
• 7+ years of experience with Healthcare Technology;
• claims processing systems;

batch and online.

• Expertise in Creating, Maintaining and Enhancing Java code using Spring Framework
• Expertise in Creating, Maintaining and Enhancing REST API
• Expertise in Azure Cloud Platform Services (AKS).
• Expertise in Docker Containerization with Kubernetes Orchestration.
• Expertise in Azure Platform change management.
• Expertise in Datadog and Azure Observability / Monitoring platform.
• Expertise in DevOps / GitOps.
• Experience with Production Support (Abend resolution, documentation).
• Experience with Istio / Knative / Ngnix is a plus.
• Experience with MetaVance Online and Batch Processing is a plus.
• Knowledge of building MetaVance on a specific server is a plus.
• Knowledge of MetaVance Application or any Healthcare Claims processing system is a plus.
• Flexible with work schedule (supporting oncall for Production and Pre-Production environments).
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices enabling sound technology choices and strategic decisions.
• Spearheads the development of innovative approaches to detect, respond to, and eradicate tech debt, anti-patterns and advance threats.
• Ability to research and apply innovative methodologies, latest industry trends, design patterns.
• Recognizes underlying problems, opportunities, or the political forces affecting the organization.
• Subject matter expert responsible for sharing expertise and insight with other engineers.
• Identifies significant internal and external stakeholders and builds partnerships as part of an influencing strategy.
• Demonstrates mastery in their area of expertise and are recognized as an authority on it by their peers and leaders.
• Evaluates and generates options that scan the entire spectrum of software reliability, ease of adoption, scalability, operational ease, and skillset availability.
• Mentors and champions cultural as well as process change.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships.
• Life-long learner, process improver.
• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case.
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them.
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers.
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost / benefit analysis to measure improvements.
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes.
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices.