Application Developer Technical Lead at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in Detroit, Michigan

Job Description:

We are hiring for an Application Developer Technical Lead within our Digital Experience team at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM).


About the Role


This Application Developer Technical Lead supports the digital experience platform including member portal, member mobile, public and retail applications.

This role will work closely with clients, business analysts and team members to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions that align with business and IT strategies. This role will lead major projects/programs providing technical direction and support in the full systems life cycle that span a broad range of applications to ensure application software is delivered on time and within budget.

In this Application Developer Technical Lead opportunity, you will:

• Lead and/or participate in project planning processes. Develop work plans or reviews other work plan timelines and manage workflows to meet project timeframes.
• Work on teams to define all applications within the department. Gather information such as the cost to build and maintain the application, the business value produced, the quality of the application, and the expected life span.
• Identify technical requirements.
• Lead project teams building applications. .
• Plan and schedule the installation and deployment of new modules, upgrades, and fixes to the production environment. Ensures modules are production ready. Validate deployment.
• Evaluate new application packages and tools and performs research on best practices. Provide recommendations for solutions.
• Oversee and assist in production support. Troubleshoot existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develops solutions. Provide ongoing maintenance applications.
• Lead the technical evaluation and selection process for improving application performance by overseeing gap analysis, feasible alternative solutions, and recommending and/or approving the scope of modifications.
• Ensure all applications are documented according to standards.
• Discuss teamwork progress and obstacles. Provide advice, guidance, encouragement, and constructive feedback.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members. Provide technical guidance or systems process expertise. Provide performance feedback to managers.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• Seven (7) years of application programming and analysis experience required.
• Broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and application architecture standards required.
• Experience designing, developing, and testing applications using proven or emerging technologies.
• Project management and experience in leading projects required.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret very complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify, and understand requirements, and develop alternate solutions.
• Understand the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
• Expertise in multiple technical environments and possesses business knowledge that spans multiple business areas.
• Written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, or within a team environment.

Departmental Preferences:

• Knowledge of native/ hybrid mobile application programming languages for iOS (Objective-C/Swift) or Android (Java/Kotlin), ionic, capacitor is a plus!
• Understand project management processes and standards for waterfall and agile depending on type of the project.
• Technical Certifications on Cloud Technologies, J2EE framework, architecture.
• 7 years of strong and hands on architecture and design experience in technologies including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Angular JavaScript, JSON, RESTful services & microservices.
• 5 years' experience in software architecture and/or product development with Cloud Technologies & API Platforms, SOA standards - involving AWS, GCP, MuleSoft, Informatics Cloud Platforms, OKTA, SOAP, REST, WSDL, JSON, XSLT, K8, Docker, AWS Lambda, etc.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other grounds, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. Apply Now