Application Developer, Principal

Job Description

Your Role

The Applications Support and Continuous Delivery team charter and role for this position is to advance platform and application solution design disciplines where the end goal is to build and establish platform engineering disciplines and best practices to effectively build and evangelize designs which utilize EA reference implementations and patterned solutions for asset reuse developing new or optimizing existing platforms (i.e., Pega, AIP, Facets, PIMS).

The Platform / IT Applications Solutions Engineer, Principal will report to the Sr. Manager. In this role as a technical leader, you thrive best in creating impact by exercising your technical leadership and capabilities, influence, having access and partnership with EA, Infrastructure and Development/ Support partners across the enterprise to enable building of Business/IT service solutions with common platform standards and in interpreting, for development teams, how to correctly build against EA's proposed designs.

The principal will have independent yet partnered influence, authority our application and platform solution teams putting together the appropriate blueprints into how platforms should operate as we "productize" platforms for use by agile product delivery teams. Key qualities include platform systems evaluation, having strategic thought observing anti-patterns, and identifying needs that support platform demands for the service development community, continually striving for engineering excellence that enables portfolios to deliver backlog in a faster and standardized manner.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Own, manage and execute platform management practice for key foundational IT platforms.
• Partner with enterprise architecture to define platform solution patterns. Ensure these solutions practices are understood and adopted by various IT dev delivery teams (agile development teams)
• Lead partners of developers, security, data service teams providing reference implementations for various solutions patterns in IT platforms.
• Train various development teams with platform adoption / usage and best practices through platform solution patterns and reference implementation
• Partner with enterprise architecture team to understand enterprise technology roadmap and ensure the solution architecture/design created by IT Portfolio teams reflect them.
• Provide leadership, mentorship and advisory services to IT portfolio and product(agile) teams to ensure that solutions are in line with the strategic architecture direction.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving ability and analytical skills
• Participates with other senior leaders to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Provide technical leadership in establishing a platform community of practice with various stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate approach, value, risk, alternatives, and status of goal progress with executive & senior management, business sponsors, and product managers
• Self-directed, works with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment
• Applies significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends
• Manage the identification and resolution of technical debt

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a computer science bachelor's degree or having technical equivalent experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior and relevant experience
• Strong technical acumen & deep working knowledge of Agile Methods, Service Architecture, and enterprise cloud integration and solution designing
• Core skills strongly desired for this role:
  • Java/J2EE
  • Spring/SpringBoot/Spring Batch frameworks
  • Apache Camel Framework
  • API/Microservices
  • API Management/Gateway patterns
  • API Security/OAUTH/SAML
  • Application Integration Patterns
  • SQL/NOSQL Databases
  • Cloud Solution/Architecture Experiences - serverless, Kubernetes, Cloud Security patterns, Cloud Solution Architecture patterns, Cloud networking
  • Healthcare data standards - FHIR/EDI
  • Design thinking and Product Solution Design
  • DevSecOps Exposure
  • Design for Digital Platform Experiences
  • Backend Data Designs - leveraging BSC's Experience Cube capabilities for future state (i.e., MyHealthRecord, multi-tenant data, etc.)
  • Additional experience in "productizing" platforms in preparation for consumption by digital platforms, mobile, platform integration teams
• Valuable+ Experience: Git (Bitbucket), Jira, Jenkins, Tableau, Splunk, Business
• Objects, Service Market Place, Python, Facets (Claims), Tidal, Informatica, Oracle, SQL, Unix, other scripting
• Strong ability to influence, collaborate, and build relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams
• Ability to assess potential opportunities, risks, and issues, and make recommendations to resolve or course-correct as necessary
• Ability to effectively manage meetings and work regularly with a variety of stakeholders
• Effective verbal and written communication skills including the ability to create, translate, and execute technical deliverables
• Proven experience educating & influencing others and collaborating across all functions and levels in a highly matrixed organization
• Healthcare experience in claims processing & payments is preferred (Facets, FHIR)
• Experienced with relevant software development tools, industry protocols, troubleshooting & support procedures, monitoring & quality controls, and communication/documentation software

About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.