[Remote] Lead Software Engineer - FACETS (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to perform complex analysis, design, development, and testing of software applications. The role involves leading a team of engineers, managing technical resources, and ensuring compliance with development standards while mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications
- Performs and leads the detail technical design, coding, code review and testing of new applications and enhancements of existing applications
- Serves as a subject matter expert for specified systems and their subsequent applications
- Develop and/or analyze interface design documentation
- Comply with hardware and software systems standards and procedures
- Deliver large systems for tens of thousands of users
- Ensures compliance to the dev/sec/ops practices and policies
- Understanding of architectural practices and design
- Identifies gaps in requirements and solves problems for the supporting staff
- Identifies sequencing of services and technologies that are integrated in later phases of the project
- Leads the evaluation of risk and opportunity impacts to existing or proposed projects/programs and implements risk mitigation actions
- Develops ways to improve performance and increase system availability
- Provides recommendations to infuse new technology
- Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis
- Supports the Project Manager as the technical team lead on the project
- Estimates the technical costs of projects for clients and project managers
- Confers with clients to identify requirements and determine desired outcomes to formulate the design of the system or offer alternatives
- Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools
- Assist in the estimation of development of application features
- Leads software design and development teams
- Identifies, analyzes, defines, and coordinates user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translates them into technical requirements
- Manages technical resources (hardware, software, licenses, and services)
- Plans and leads transformation initiatives to new software architectures
- Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team
- Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions
- Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices
- Ensure code quality, deployment standards and practices
- Mentoring junior developers
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience
- 8 years Software design and development, software test and evaluation, software requirements management
- Senior Developer with FACETS, Cognizant ELEMENTS Products (EAM, EDM, TCS, RSM) Database builds, .Net, Claims, Cloud Engineering experience including Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
Benefits
- CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
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