Sr Applications Developer

Job Description

SUMMARY: The Sr Applications Developer is responsible for developing custom applications as well as leveraging third party applications to meet the needs of the customers/users. For Department-specific and company-wide projects, assist in project management by identifying issues and recommending solutions and communicating the status of the project in a timely fashion. The nature of the work will include performing systems analysis, detailed design, programming, testing and training in the implementation of departmental and interdepartmental applications. Individual will participate in a post-implementation support role including troubleshooting and enhancing installed applications. These tasks should be completed without supervision but will include Manager checkpoints for relevant milestones.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Production Support – 10%

Monitors system, analyzing and correcting issues in a timely fashion in order to maintain the production schedule

Supports of all HNE applications

Documents changes for production personnel to insure fault tolerance and plan to follow should applications/job fail to run as designed

Works directly with customers to insure applications are functioning based on business needs and customer understands the output correctly

Insures adequate training of production personnel

Works with customer to identify, prioritize, implement and determine impact of required changes

Recommends and implements solutions based on business needs

Application Development/Enhancements – 90%

Develops /enhances custom applications to satisfy business needs

Works with internal and external customers throughout the life cycle of the project, including support

Participates in meetings and discussions with the customer thru final approval of design

Evaluates impact to other parts of the system and best solution to integrate application into workflow/operation schedule

Defines customer requirements by reviewing business needs and understanding existing system through documentation, and by organizing and conducting customer interviews

Translates customer requirements into functional and technical design documents

Designs operational documentation

Develops accurate and meaningful detail design documentation and insure their completeness and accuracy by confirming approach with other Application Developers and customers

Conducts operational and customer design reviews with the customers and operational staff

Programs to meet business specifications and department standards

Designs testing requirements

Ensures unit test data is prepared and maintained

Aids in the preparation of system and integration test plan

Conducts code reviews with development team Implement/Support

Prepares and packages all necessary documentation requirements based on department standards for review and sign-off

Defines training goals and objectives in conjunction with the customer

Develops training material consistent with customer needs including user manual standard

Investigates customer questions and provide solutions

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science with 5+ years of experience performing advance level application development work or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Required experience with Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, C#, .NET, WEB Development, Enity Framwork, SQL Server, and LINQ

Preferred experience with MVC, AngularJS, ETL tools Talend and SSIS, SSRS, Oracle, Cobol, Suprtool, and UNIX

Prior experience with health care insurance or health care vendor organizations desirable

Excellent analytical skills

Excellent customer service skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Excellent ability to work as a team member

WORKING CONDITIONS: Works in a standard office-based environment

Full-time