Job Description:

Senior Java Developer

Location: Westborough, MA; Indiana, IN, Aliso Viejo, CA or Remote

W2/Fulltime with UST

Advalent Inc (a wholly-owned subsidiary of UST HealthProof Inc.) is looking for a Senior Java Developer, who under the general supervision of the Engineering Platform Delivery Manager and Delivery Lead, will work to deliver the implementation of a Health care ecosystem for our Health Plan clients. The Senior Java Developer will work with the small to mid-size Health Plan Clients, third party vendors, and onshore and offshore Advalent associates to develop healthcare file interchange systems, EDI systems, Claims adjudication engines, report engines and other back-end systems.Candidate should have excellent technical and communication skills and ability to engage as part of a team working both physically together and virtually. You should be an excellent problem solver who is able to grasp customer needs and brainstorm ways to fulfill them.

As a Senior Java Developer at Advalent, this is your opportunity to:

• Be part of a world class health care payer backend system.


• Work with the Advalent development team to ensure solution quality and architecture compliance.


• Collaborate with numerous external vendors many who are top in the healthcare industry.


• Independently develop test and debug Java and SQL code.


• Utilize your skills in Agile development methodologies including JIRA, SCRUM, Git, BitBucket.


• Exercise strong communication skills including the ability to convey technical information effectively.


• Identify prospective areas of growth in automation by analysing Integration/Middleware landscape.


• Ensure repeatability and reusability of integration design, processes, and code.


• Consistently use analytical skills - able to synthesize complex information.


• Deploy expertise in estimation techniques.


• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.


• Support or conduct staff mentoring as needed.


• Provide constructive feedback to staff. May have responsibility for staff oversight on a project including goal setting and performance monitoring.


• Comply with the organization's Code of Conduct, all regulatory and contractual requirements, organizational policies, procedures, and internal controls.


• Responsible to write and maintain clean, well-written code, as per the best practices.

You bring:

• Expert level skills in Java 8 and Java 11.


• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc.).


• Experience in developing web applications using Spring MVC framework.


• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA, Hibernate).


• Expert level skills in OOPS concepts & unit testing.


• Experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Web Services, XML, SQL, Middleware.


• Experience in developing, debugging, and testing SOAP Webservices.


• Expertise with SOAP UI tool.


• Experience in using Apache Camel as middleware tool is added advantage.


• Experience in using java 8 features is added advantage.


• Expertise with SQL and relational databases.


• Experience with Agile tools and methodologies including JIRA, SCRUM, Git, BitBucket.


• Performance troubleshooting and coding and designing for performance.


• Security best practices.


• Experience in architecting software solutions and understanding of architecture governance.


• Bachelor's degree or higher in business or technical field, 5+ years of relevant work experience. Work experience in client partner or account interaction is needed.

*Strong Customer Focus

*Deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of implementing quality software solutions on time and on budget.

*Experience in any Health care IT application and a managed care environment is preferred.

• Experience with Medicare and Medicaid is preferred

For this role, we value:

*Technical Competence

oStrong problem-solving and excellent communication skills

oProject Requirements, Analysis and Objectives

oExperience in architecting, designing, and implementing software solutions.

oQuality Focus

oAbility to understand the architectures, ask the right questions and think bigger (performance, go live, future maintenance)

oAbility to influence business and technical leaders in a dynamic environment.

oProject organization & Teamwork

oProblem resolution

oAbility to manage scope and deliverables.

oShare design/development ideas with visual tools like Lucidchart/similar.

oVery comfortable with daily stand-up meetings with clients, update daily work progress via Project Management systems, voice/video calls, online collaboration using screen-sharing tools.

oExposure/experience in fast-paced, agile development practices.

*Behavioral Competence

oLeadership

oEngagement and Motivation

oAssertiveness

oOpenness and Creativity

oResults Orientation

oEfficiency

oConsultation and Negotiation

oConflict & crisis resolution

oReliability

oVisionary and ability to see how your work impacts the bigger picture.

oAbility to build, foster, and maintain positive professional relationships.

oDevotion to high-quality customer service

oExcellent interpersonal communication skills

oKeen analytical and research abilities

Role Proficiency:

Develops applications and selects appropriate technical options. Optimizes application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and by reusing proven solutions. Independently account for others' developmental activities and assists Lead I - Product Engineering

Outcomes:

1. Understand product requirements and user stories from customer discovery process


2. Create high/low level design document and maintain necessary artefacts


3. Ensure requirements coverage of complex features with unit test cases


4. Ensure appropriate technical options for development are selected such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components or create own solutions


5. Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. Provide technical guidance to the team to resolve challenging programming and design problems


6. Create effort estimation and ETA for the deliverables ensure adherence to timelines/SLAs wherever applicable


7. Ensure code coverage and code quality by active participation in architecture / code reviews


8. Ensure adherence to the best practices and standards with provision of periodic status updates


9. Execute test cases and prepare release document in line with the requirements


10. Ensure career progression for Associate Product Engineers via focused mentoring and grooming


11. Ensure career progression for Associate Product Engineers & Product Engineers I via focused mentoring and grooming


12. Optimises efficiency cost and quality


13. Influence and improve customer satisfaction


14. Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams


15. Set OKRs for self/team and also provide feedback to these goals of team members

Measures of Outcomes:

1. Adherence to engineering process and standards (coding standards)


2. Adherence to project schedule / timelines


3. Number of technical issues uncovered during the execution of the project


4. Number of defects in the code


5. Number of defects post delivery


6. Number of non-compliance issues


7. Number of reusable components/libs developed


8. Adherence to mandatory domain certification/ product certifications


9. Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals)

Outputs Expected:

Product Requirements:

1. Understand the functional/ non functional requirements gathered from the stakeholders (Architect Product Manager Product Lead Client) for enhancement. Participate in cross functional meetings to review Product Marketing user stories and Functional Requirements and create clarification list to resolve ambiguities;


2. Conduct feasibility study to understand the impact of user stories on the existing product;


3. Provide inputs to the development lead on estimation


4. Understand new / complex product requirements (functional and non functional) ;


5. Create a low level design document (which captures class level diagram and attributes mapped to the class and sequence diagram) based on the understanding of high level design;


6. 6. Seek review inputs from the Architect and incorporate the same

Product Design and Development:

1. Develop/Support scripts (like Powershell scripts) that automate configuration/build/deployment tasks


2. Onboard and extend existing tools to product dev/support teams


3. Deliver components that automates parts of the build/deploy lifecycle for products


4. Configure a CI/CD pipeline that can be used by application development/support teams


5. Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies/ products and share the findings with the architecture team for new products


6. Provide technical inputs for product research design analysis testing process improvement and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects;


7. Create high level software design (HLSD) documents under the guidance of Architects


8. Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems


9. Participate in architecture / code reviews and eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle


10. Create and low level design document for product enhancement


11. Seek review inputs from the product specialist


12. Build code as per the design document


13. Support the client in user acceptance testing if required

Product Testing:

1. Review Test Cases and Test Plan; Conduct Integration testing and resolve defects/bugs

Product Training and Documentation:

1. Provide inputs to technical publications and review documentation of key features as required.

Product Sign Offs:

1. Resolve existing issues


2. Gather users' feedback from the client and identify ways to enhance the usability

Project Management:

1. Provide inputs on the status of the module development to the development lead.

People Management:

1. Mentor Software Engineers and conduct one on one sessions to coach team members;


2. Enable high performance for team members using FAST G&F

Skill Examples:

1. Uses Domain / Industry Knowledge to independently understand capture the business requirements and fine-tune interact with SME at various stages of development


2. Use Product Design knowledge to design/implement the business and non-functional requirements


3. Use knowledge of Product Features / Functionality to understand the technical dependency of the product workflow. Independently analyze the product apply the best practices in own area of work impart training on the various functional modules of the product


4. Design install configure troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines


5. Use Software Design & Development knowledge to develop code as per the requirement specifications / user stories independently understand and follow engineering practices. Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development process review process to ensure all practices are being followed


6. Use UX Knowledge to understand user interface design and implications on product design and development and improve product usability across the user base. Provide necessary inputs to design team that indicates the user profile/segments and savviness of these users so the right trade-off can be achieved

Knowledge Examples:

Additional Comments:

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