Lead Software Engineer - Full-Stack (Hybrid)

Resp & Qualifications

SUMMARY :

As a Lead software engineer in delivery organization, candidate is expected to contribute to multiple high visibility applications, work with multiple teams and have ability to architect scalable, fault tolerant systems.

You will be responsible for designing solution that spans multiple systems. You share passion to learn new technologies and mentor junior engineers to achieve best results.

To be successful in this role you must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced environment.

This position is a Hybird position (Hybrid employees primarily work from a physical location of their choice within the company's default region of Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia).

Depending on business need this may result in occasionally working in the company's DC or Virginia location

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Lead a team of software engineers supporting multiple applications and take ownership of delivery.
• Perform technical design, coding, deploying, testing, and troubleshooting java-based services. Serves as subject matter expert for both customer and internal discussions related to maintaining and enhancing existing software systems.
• Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
• Decomposes functional and technical requirements into project activities and tasks and provides conceptual design, prototype, use case, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution.
• Performs operations & maintenance (O&M) of existing systems. Identifies areas for improvement and streamlining. Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools.
• Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project.
• Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads.

Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY :

Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.

QUALIFICATIONS :

Education Level : 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.

Experience : 8 years Software requirements management, design and development, architecture, software test and evaluation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Works closely with cross functional teams to provide insight into delivering business value and meeting objectives.
• Hands-on development experience using Java, Spring related technologies such as Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, spring Batch and scheduler / task and Spring Integration.
• Experience in developing services using REST and SOAP APIs.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies ( e.g. AWS, Azure).
• Experience with database technologies (e.g. DB2, Oracle, Hive, Mongo DB etc.).
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies.
• Strong experience with Deployment / Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing / Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI / CD tools and framework.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
• Knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC). Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of infrastructure, performance, monitoring.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices. Ensure code quality, deployment standards and practices.

Mentoring junior developers.

• Experience working in Apache Kafka / Confluent platform including Kafka consumer, Kafka Streams.
• Proficient with integrating complex and / or existing systems.
• Healthcare experience is preferred.

Licenses / Certifications : AWS Certified Developer Associate upon hire preferred.

Department

Department :

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.