Acentra Health exists to empower better health outcomes through technology, services, and clinical expertise. Our mission is to innovate health solutions that deliver maximum value and impact.

Lead the Way is our rallying cry at Acentra Health. Think of it as an open invitation to embrace the company’s mission, actively engage in problem-solving, and take ownership of your work daily. Acentra Health offers you unparalleled opportunities. In fact, you have all you need to take charge of your career and accelerate better outcomes – making this a great time to join our team of passionate individuals dedicated to being a vital partner for health solutions in the public sector.

Acentra seeks a Developer, Specialist to join our growing team.

Job Summary:

The role of the Developer, Specialist is to perform thorough analysis of end-to-end solutions of complex business functionality, provide technical solutions for complex business requirements, and implement complex business solutions.

Position is remote, based in the state of Georgia may require up to 25% travel.

Job Responsibilities:

• Functions as an individual contributor and works independent of supervision

• Capable of working independently and in teams to design and implement complex software programs and framework components

• Serves as technical lead on development projects

• Provides development strategy for a client and develops multi-year development approach on programs

• Coordinates and plans all of the tasks required for the software development and implementation

• Creates conceptual design and writes technical specifications for business requirements

• Evaluates new technologies for solving technical problems

• Guides Developer team on Proof of Concepts using new technologies and innovation

• Recommends technologies and solutions to enhance the user experience

• Prepares conceptual technical solution based on business requirements

• Works on application integration with third-party systems

• Identifies security issues and provides corrective action plan

• Identifies and escalates program risks and issues to leadership, and assists in developing solutions

• Participates in design sessions and analyzes user needs to determine technical requirements

• Collaborates with Business Analysis team to finalize the system design and technical solutions

• Develops process flows, screen designs, and storyboarding to support system design

• Provides the component level details and effort estimates to Development Principals and project managers for system enhancements

• Participates in peer reviews of detailed design and technical documentation

• Performs code reviews and suggests improvement areas to Developer team

• Prepares implementation checklists

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of development to ensure high quality

• Demonstrates advanced expertise and contributes to the Development practice by publishing technology points of view through the creation of white papers

Requirements

Required Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field +10 years of software development experience

• Experience in healthcare industry

• Experience with agile development methodologies

• Understanding of SharePoint applications, Webex, Skype, etc.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Visio, with a working knowledge of the rest of the Microsoft Office suite of applications

• Experience with software and database architectural techniques and high-level design using UML or similar representational modeling and design techniques

• Excellent understanding of Medicaid Information Technology Architecture

• Excellent knowledge of healthcare industry

• Excellent knowledge of multiple healthcare project implementations

• Knowledge of CMMI maturity levels

• Experience leading teams and successfully implementing enterprise applications

• Experience working on micro services and modular frameworks

• Experience building applications with optimum functionality, performance, scalability, and security

• Excellent knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts

• Excellent understanding of enterprise architecture and web applications

• Excellent implementation knowledge of healthcare systems

• Excellent understanding of relational database concepts

• Excellent understanding of non-relational database concepts

• Excellent Linux/Unix command knowledge

• Excellent understanding of version control and defect management tools (such as ClearCase, SVN, CVS, JIRA, Bugzilla, ClearQuest)

• Excellent understanding of client-server architecture

• Good experience configuring application code on-premise and cloud infrastructure (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud, IBM cloud)

• Good understanding of software development methodologies (such as waterfall, hybrid agile, agile/scrum framework)

• Required skills for web and mobile development:

• Excellent understanding of various front-end languages (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and frameworks (such as jQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap) to create, modify, and maintain web application user interfaces

• Excellent experience in building applications using server-side languages (such as Java – J2EE, Web services, XML, ASP.NET, Python, PHP, Ruby)

• Excellent experience working with application frameworks (such as Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Faces (JSF), Google Web Toolkit (GWT))

• Excellent experience working with web and application servers (such as Apache, WildFly (JBoss), Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere)

• Excellent experience in designing and implementing multi-browser-compatible applications

• Excellent experience in implementing and understanding of responsive user interface design

• Experience working with single sign-on (SSO) integration for enterprise applications

• Good understanding of integrating applications with identity and access management (IAM) tools

• Extensive experience developing applications with continuous integration and build tools (such as Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, Sonar)

• Excellent experience in identifying security issues with tools (such as Fortify, Hailstorm) and resolving security vulnerabilities for web applications

• Experience in building complex system software using front-end or server-side languages stated above

• Experience working with relational databases (such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2)

• Experience working on non-relational databases (such as NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)

• Experience working on mobile technologies and cloud computing

• Required skills for database development and data modelling:

• Excellent understanding of various relational databases (such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2) and data modeling tools (such as Erwin and SQL Data Modeler)

• Experience in designing and architecting back-end solutions using relational databases for enterprise applications

• Experience implementing software systems using relational databases (such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2)

• Excellent understanding and experience in building conceptual, logical, and physical data models to translate business requirements to update data models

• Excellent experience in understanding and enforcing data governance standards for all enterprise assets

• Experience in Master / Reference data management

• Excellent experience in implementing data partitioning, data retention, and data archival strategies working in very high-volume database environments with minimal downtime

• Experience in identifying opportunities for reducing data redundancy and inconsistencies in data usage and trends

• Good experience in implementing database security to reduce vulnerabilities

• Experience working on non-relational databases (such as NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)

• Excellent experience creating database tables, views, medium to complex stored procedures, triggers, and functions

• Experience in fine-tuning SQL queries and improving application performance

• Good experience in writing technical design documentation

• Experience in building applications with high availability and scalability requirements

• Experience in providing training sessions

• Required skills for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) development:

• Extensive experience in a COTS products (such as COGNOS, CRM, IVR, Oracle E-Business Suite, IBM DataStage, IBM Watson Analytics, Salesforce, PEGA, MuleSoft, Document Management Tools (FileNet, SharePoint), Oracle SOA, Pitney Bowes - EngageOne, EDIFECS - XEngine)

• Extensive experience in implementing end-to-end solutions using a COTS product

• Extensive experience in managing and reviewing the configuration tasks prepared by the team

• Extensive experience in providing solutions to complex problems using customizations of COTS tools

• Extensive experience integrating COTS solutions with large scale web applications and relational databases

• Experience working with single sign-on (SSO) integration for enterprise applications

• Good understanding of integrating applications with identity and access management (IAM) tools

• Excellent experience in identifying security issues with tools and resolving security vulnerabilities for web applications

• Extensive experience in design and implementation of COTS tools

• Extensive experience in both functional and technical details of COTS tools

• Extensive experience in overseeing implementation of any COTS products

• Extensive experience in escalations with third-party vendors for resolutions

• Extensive experience in training resources with various COTS tools

• Extensive experience understanding of application security and architecture

• Extensive experience creating both functional and technical COTS documentation

• Good experience configuring application code on-premise and cloud infrastructure (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud, IBM cloud)

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC) preferred

Why us?

We are a team of experienced and caring leaders, clinicians, pioneering technologists, and industry professionals who come together to redefine expectations for the healthcare industry. State and federal healthcare agencies, providers, and employers turn to us as their vital partner to ensure better healthcare and improve health outcomes.

We do this through our people.

You will have meaningful work that genuinely improves people's lives nationwide. Our company cares about our employees, giving you the tools and encouragement, you need to achieve the finest work of your career.

Benefits

Benefits are a key component of your rewards package. Our benefits are designed to provide additional protection, security, and support for your career and life away from work. Our benefits include comprehensive health plans, paid time off, retirement savings, corporate wellness, educational assistance, corporate discounts, and more.

Compensation

The pay range for this position is $110,700/yr - $148,300/yr

“Based on our compensation philosophy, an applicant’s placement in the pay range will depend on various considerations, such as years of applicable experience and skill level.”

Thank You!

We know your time is valuable, and we thank you for applying for this position. Due to the high volume of applicants, only those who are chosen to advance in our interview process will be contacted. We sincerely appreciate your interest in Acentra Health and invite you to apply to future openings that may interest you. Best of luck in your search!

The Acentra Health Talent Acquisition Team

Visit us at Acentra.com/careers/

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Acentra Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable Federal, State, or Local law