Senior Web Consult Software Engineer

This position services as an expert technical and industry resource to management, clients and pharmacy web portal development staff in new uses of information technology in all phases of major system and subsystem development. Provides consultation on internal and industry IT technical and business domain process capabilities including leadership in the identification and recommendation of new IT enhancements and business operations as it relates to application development the Medi-Cal Pharmacy contract. Formulates, contributes to, and directs task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for research, prototype, and proof-of-concept IT activities. As a full stack developer with Java and REACT.Javascript, directs and participates in all aspects of development tasks including data management, application architecture and business architecture. Provides guidance to staff on complex assignments and mentors on new technologies.

• Provides technical leadership for the client web portal and other applications in partnership with the IT Service Owners.
• Drives the usability and quality of the software developed within the area.
• Advocates for and liaison on behalf of the client with excellent relationship building skills.
• Ensures technical currency is maintained within the applications within the portfolio.
• Acts as a hands-on software engineer who can write quality code, assist with problem solving, root cause analysis, trouble shooting and coaching.
• Writes technical blogs and be active in Open Source Community.

• Applies Design Thinking techniques on application design.
• Leads agile software development efforts as a senior Technical Leader.
• Coaches and mentors other software engineers across teams on practices such as TDD, ATDD and pair programming.
• Designs highly scalable applications in AWS cloud using tools like Cloud Formation Templates, EC2, SWF, ELB, Lambda, S3, RDS/Dynamo DB and others.
• Creates load and performance testing strategy and perform advanced performance tuning.
• Reviews and implement corrective and preventive measures based on metrics across portfolio of applications including but not limited to code quality, business metrics and performance metrics.

• 10+ years of related experience including experience working with Agile Methods and modern programming environments.
• Experience in health care, insurance or related field.
• Critical thinker.
• Demonstrated problem solving techniques.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.