Senior Cloud Application Developer bei Washington Health Benefit Exchange

The mission of Washington Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) is to radically improve how Washington residents secure health insurance through innovative and practical solutions, an easy-to-use customer experience, our values of integrity, respect, equity and transparency, and by providing undeniable value to the health care community.

The Exchange is a public-private partnership that operates Washington Healthplanfinder, the eligibility and enrollment portal used by one in four Washington residents to obtain health and dental coverage. Through this platform, and with support from a Customer Support Center and statewide network of in-person navigators and brokers, individuals and families can shop, compare and enroll in private, qualified health plans (as defined in the Affordable Care Act) or enroll in Washington Apple Health, the state Medicaid program.

The Exchange embraces the following equity statement adopted by our Board of Directors:

Equity is fundamental to the mission of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange. The process of advancing toward equity and becoming anti-racist is disruptive and demands vigilance to dismantle deeply entrenched systems of privilege and oppression. While systemic racism is a root cause of many societal inequities, we must also use an intersectional approach to address all forms of bias and oppression, which interact with and often exacerbate racial inequities. To be successful, we must recognize the socioeconomic drivers of health and focus on people and places where needs are greatest. As we listen to community, we must hold ourselves accountable to responding to recommendations to remedy inequitable policies, systems, or practices within the Exchange’s area of influence. Our goal is that all Washingtonians have full and equal access to opportunities, power and resources to achieve their full potential.

SUMMARY

The Senior Cloud Application Developer position is responsible for the underlying architecture, design, development, unit testing, and implementation of the application systems used within Washington Health Benefits Exchange.   The Senior Cloud Application Developer operates within the Development Team in IT and is responsible to research and utilize cloud technologies and services to develop and modernize Washington Healthplanfinder and related back-office applications for the Exchange. 

The incumbent in this position is expected to collaborate and work closely with stakeholders across IT, other Departments, and our System Integration (SI) partners on development projects.  The Senior Cloud Application Developer supports the management and maintenance of two or more applications or functions in a complex system.   The Senior Cloud Application Developer works independently and with the team on problem resolution of complex system issues.  The Senior Cloud Application Developer may be asked to oversee the overall technical aspect of a major development effort on a project. 

The Senior Cloud Application Developer is responsible for overseeing the work being done by other developers working on a team.  A Senior Cloud Application Developer will act as a mentor and team lead for new or lower-level developers, interns, and other technical members on the scrum team.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•    Independently perform complex assignments as required by the team on projects using appropriate cloud-based tools and technologies. 

•    Lead the development of complex development efforts 

•    Translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into software designs. 

•    Determine feasibility of projects, with respect to time and cost, and define the technical aspects of requirements for new software or application enhancements. 

•    Lead or participate in the process of documenting technical design specifications and workflows 

•    Lead analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex production issues 

•    Responsible to ensure solutions developed meets quality standards as expected by our internal and external partners 

•    Work with Test team on TDD/BDD and ensure quality in the delivery and release of solution 

•    Responsible for working with Security team to ensure code is scanned and remediated of security vulnerabilities 

•    Remains current on development best practices, emerging cloud technologies, and practices 

•    Lead and review the design, development, and implementation of code from junior developers on the team 

•    Ensure IT and Security policies, standards and best practices are adopted and followed 

•    Ensure development efforts adhere to architectural direction set by Enterprise Solutions Committee and Enterprise Architecture teams 

•    Meeting deliverable dates and sprint targets 

•    Engaging in independent decision-making 

•    Integrate Automated Deployment, scanning and automated reporting  

•    Provide DevSecOps Leadership and serve as a devsecops champion  

QUALIFICATIONS

Required: 

•    6+ years experience with programming technologies – .NET Core, XML/JSON, Entity Framework, React.js, Angular, CSS, etc. 

•    6+ years experience working collaboratively with Stakeholders, Product Owners, and Business Systems Analysts to understand system requirements and provide inputs. 

•    6+ years experience maintaining and enhancing systems that are in production. 

•    4+ years experience developing enterprise class, highly secure, and object-oriented web-based application system. 

•    4+ years experience leading development projects. 

•    4+ years experience working collaboratively with, and leading, technical design discussions and building designs. 

•    4+ years experience reviewing code and providing feedback to technical staff. 

•    4+ years experience: 

o    Being a lead developer on a Scrum team. 

o    Reviewing code for adherence to standards. 

o    Creating complete solutions from documentation. 

•    Experience building cloud-native applications that are optimized for cloud scale and performance. 

•    Experience with microservice architecture and orchestration 

•    Experience with integration technologies – Restful services, SFT, SFTP, EDI, etc

•    Ability to leverage those experiences to estimate work that is often unknown. 

•    Excellent communication skills. 

•    Ability to facilitate meetings. 

•    Ability to perform root cause analysis on defects. 

•    Experience with proactive monitoring of application performance. 

•    Experience building applications in a regulated industry. 

•    Experience presenting solutions to review committees or boards. 

•    Experience working across IT disciplines. 

•    Ability to communicate ideas and strategies to other technical staff. 

•    Understanding of secure coding practices. 

•    Experience with automated code scanning and remediating findings. 

•    Proactively researches and evaluates new technologies. 

•    Ability to articulate business value or technical advantages in the context of the organization. 

•    Experience mentoring development staff. 

•    Strong understanding of software development best practices 

•    Ability to understand policies and determine impacts to application development. 

•    Ability to communicate development processes to technical staff. 

•    Experience creating and documenting standards. 

•    Ability to communicate standards to technical staff. 

•    Ability to manage time efficiently and create a work plan based on inter-team dependencies 

•    Ability to leverage standards, requirements, experience, and judgement to decide optimal solutions or techniques for individual application development solutions. 

•    Experience with DevSecOps principles and CI/CD best practices. 

•    Skilled in automation of deployment workflows. Proficient in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. 

•    Experience in integrating automated testing and security scanning as quality gates in deployment workflows. 

•    Ability to work with architects to create guidelines, best practices into development and deployment workflows 

•    Ability to collaborate with IT, Platform and Security teams to promote a culture of automation, standard deployment procedures.  

•    Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. 

•    Familiar with GitOps workflows for managing infrastructure and deployments. 

•    Familiarity with security scanning tools and practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and application code. 

Desired:

•    Bachelor’s or Higher degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (Note: Any education can only substitute for 1 year of practical experience.) 

•    Experience with GitHub/GitHub Actions 

•    Experience with Microsoft Azure platform, 

•    Experience with containerization technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure RedHat OpenShift, etc.

•    Experienced with Test Driven Development (TDD) 

•    Familiarity with Business-Driven Development (BDD) 

•    Previous applicable experience in health care enrollment and/or human services management environment. 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

This position will be open until we find a suitable number of candidates to review. If interested, please submit an application as soon as possible. The Exchange reserves the right to close the recruitment at any time. 

SALARY INFORMATION

Full Salary Range: $98,842 to $148,263 annually, with midpoint at $123,552. 

Hiring Range: $113,668 and $123,552 annually. This is an estimate of where a qualified candidate can expect to receive an offer. 

The actual salary offer will consider candidate experience, skills, qualifications, internal equity, and the market.  Our compensation policy reserves the salary range above the midpoint for employees who are meeting and exceeding expectations and for growth and development, up to the maximum. 

BENEFITS

Take a peek at our benefits package. 

WORKING CONDITIONS

Core business hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. There are times where irregular hours will be required.  The preferred duty station is our Olympia, Washington headquarters.  The nature of this role relies heavily on remote and in-person collaboration.  While a hybrid remote and on-site schedule may be considered, the position will require flexibility to allow for in-office availability as business needs dictate. Travel requirements will be limited, however there may be occasions where an employee is required to travel and work irregular hours to attend meetings or trainings. Duties of this position require the use of standard office furniture and equipment, including setup for remote work. The employee is responsible for providing and maintaining a safe, ergonomic, and secure workspace at their remote location.   

The working conditions and physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

A criminal background screen will be conducted for candidates under final consideration, and if hired, every five years of employment where highly sensitive data is processed or maintained by the position. The result of this background screen must meet the Exchange’s eligibility standards.

OTHER INFORMATION

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and levels of work being performed.  They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills of personnel so classified.

This is not an employment agreement or contract.  Management has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.

The Washington Health Benefit Exchange is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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