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Job title

Software Developer (Web Portal Technical Lead)

Company Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Minnesota, Saint Paul
Employment type Full Time
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 6/18/2008
Description
Software Developer (Web Portal Technical Lead)
Requisition 2586

Job Summary:

Responsible for working with business areas, project teams, and IT technical teams, as well as outsourced vendors to ensure high quality application design and delivery services. Focuses on designing software and coordinating maintenance and enhancement activity to support all aspects of application delivery. May assist in managing resources and mitigates risk through multiple environments. Focus is on new development work for large project initiatives.

Accountabilities:

1. Formulates and defines system scope, objectives and solutions based on user needs and documents detailed design of components/aspects of software. Participates in conceptual design.
2. Designs applications focusing on user experience, navigation in applications, or on complex transactional applications. Develops all design artifacts.
3. Works with technical staff to understand highly complex software problems, involving many varied factors that must be organized, interpreted, and considered, which are frequently of a broad scope with some assumptions made.
4. Assists project manager in developing estimates and technology requirements.
5. Participates as a highly technical expert in design, development, coding, testing and debugging new software or making significant enhancements to existing software.
6. Assists project manager in developing project plans, status reporting, and issue management. May assist in coordination of project activities by assigning staff, creating schedules, and monitoring work.
7. Resolves customer complaints with software and initiates and delivers suggestions for improvements and enhancements. Devises or modifies procedures to solve highly complex problems considering performance, capacity limitations, operating time and form of desired results.
8. Participates in user groups and makes recommendations for standards and guidelines.
9. Is engaged in root cause analysis as it relates to either the application or the product. 10. Assists with sizing efforts. Coordinates training efforts. May assist with the management of the vendor relationship.
11. Provides direction to others by acting as a lead, guide and/or mentor.
12. Works closely with customers and technical and team members to develop business requirements that drive the analysis and quality technical solutions.
13. Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written to develop or modify large and highly complex software applications.
14. Writes documentation to describe program development, logic, coding and corrections.
15. Consults with business areas, vendors, and IT technical resources regarding system scope, objectives, integration, and solutions based on user needs.

Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and minimum of 6 years of Java development experience. If no degree, then a minimum of 10 years of related Java development experience
2. 2+ years of technical lead experience (3 to 5 developers).
3. Strong background with Java, J2EE technologies and architectures.
4. Must have project experience on Websphere platform.
5. Experience with high availability web applications.
6. Understanding of databases (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2 etc).
7. Experience with service oriented (SOA), integration technologies and application standards.
8. Configuration management technologies (Rational ClearCase)
9. Web based security experience (LDAP, Policy Director, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

1. In-dept knowledge of many business areas.
2. Technical certification
3. Participation in user groups (ACM, IEEE)
4. Experience with Websphere Portal and Websphere integration highly desirable.
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Experience/Skills
Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and minimum of 6 years of Java development experience. If no degree, then a minimum of 10 years of related Java development experience
2. 2+ years of technical lead experience (3 to 5 developers).
3. Strong background with Java, J2EE technologies and architectures.
4. Must have project experience on Websphere platform.
5. Experience with high availability web applications.
6. Understanding of databases (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2 etc).
7. Experience with service oriented (SOA), integration technologies and application standards.
8. Configuration management technologies (Rational ClearCase)
9. Web based security experience (LDAP, Policy Director, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

1. In-dept knowledge of many business areas.
2. Technical certification
3. Participation in user groups (ACM, IEEE)
4. Experience with Websphere Portal and Websphere integration highly desirable.


Other desired skills:
Software Developer, Web, Portal, Java, J2EE, Websphere, Oracle, DB2
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