Principal IT Developer (Remote)

GuideWell

The Florida Blue IT team develops and manages next
generation solutions, systems and assets that support this mission. Working in
a collaborative, creative and fun environment, we offer technology
professionals a wide range of opportunities to utilize and further develop
their skills while helping people live healthier lives.

Job Summary:

Principal IT Developers are responsible for development, programming, coding of
the most complex and business critical Information Technology solutions.
Provides leadership and consultative guidance on projects with extensive size,
scope and risk. Serves the company as an advisor on best practices and as an
information technology strategy driver by implementing principles, models,
designs, standards and guidelines. Principal IT Developers are responsible for
documenting detailed system specifications, participation in unit testing and
maintenance of planned and unplanned internally developed applications,
evaluation and performance testing of purchased products. Principal IT
Developers are responsible for including IT Controls to protect the
confidentiality, integrity, as well as availability of the application and data
processed or output by the application. Principal IT Developers lead efforts,
oversee work results, providing formal training and serve as a technical
resource for other Developers.

Essential Functions:

• Drives
  enterprise-wide technology strategy implementation based on leading-edge
  industry standards, best practices and comprehensive understanding of
  business operations
• Write
  and review code for the most complex system designs and provides
  consultative guidance on project with extensive size, scope and risk.
  Write programs that span platforms. Code to and/or create Application
  Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Write
  detailed technical specifications for entire systems (made up of several
  subsystems). Identify integration points. Review technical specs created
  by other developers. Ensure sufficient quality and compliance to
  architectural standards
• Report
  missing elements found in system and functional requirements and explain
  impacts on subsystem to team members
• Scope
  time, resources, etc. required to complete programming projects. Seek
  review from other Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts or
  Project Managers on estimates. Incorporate other Developers scope
  information into own scope document (for integration points)
• Assist
  in reviewing vendor products. Provide SME input on compliance of products
  to architectural standards and impacts to IT environment
• Perform
  unit testing and debugging. Set test conditions based upon code
  specifications. Able to debug most program errors (simple to complex). May
  seek assistance from vendors to debug complex errors
• Support
  transition of application throughout the Product Development life cycle.
  Document what has to be migrated. Document what has to be migrated/file
  properties
• Work
  on integration issues and determines the integration approach. Coordinate
  with other areas for integration architecture solutions
• Assist
  technical team with defining configuration for installing products. May
  consult on database setup. May load database for testing, especially if
  there are multiple tables
• Review
  vendor research and gap analyses. Narrows down vendor choices and makes
  final recommendation to technical team and client
• Act
  as a technical mentor and lead other team members
• Continually
  works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience

Preferred:

• 12+
  years related work experience in IT development/programming/coding professional
  work experience
• Expert
  level experience in Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle with JSON, XML, Partitioning,
  Materialized views, Dynamic SQL, Bulk Collect, Bulk Bind and Collections,
  Mongo DB, PowerBuilder with PFC, JAVA

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Related
  Bachelor’s degree required IT related field or equivalent work experience
• 8+
  years IT related work experience in development/programming/coding.
• Demonstrated
  proficiencies in emerging technologies
• Expert
  level experience and understanding with unit testing, release procedures,
  coding design and documentation protocol as well as change management
  procedures
• Expert
  level proficiency using versioning tools
• Expert
  level proficiency programming in multiple object-oriented programming
  languages
• Expert
  level proficiency using debugging tools
• High
  critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present and
  communicate solutions that are consistent with business objectives and
  strategy
• Experience
  mentoring and/or leading other development staff
• Exceptional
  leadership skills demonstrated through project or technical leadership
  experience

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected
Veteran/Disabled.

We are interested in every qualified applicant who is
eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to
sponsor VISAs.