Lead Application Development Engineer

Centene Corporation is a diversified, national organization seeking a Lead Application Development Engineer to improve health outcomes through technology. The role involves designing and implementing enterprise software solutions within the M365 environment, leading projects, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure product delivery aligns with business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, and implements complex enterprise software solutions within the M365 environment including Power Platform and Copilot Studio
• Leads projects focused on the development of application products and services delivery from end-to-end and has broad knowledge and awareness of evolving technical and business capabilities within the M365 environment including Power Platform and Copilot Studio
• Ensures that multiple products and services work together to meet business needs and add value for the customer
• Cultivates and disseminates knowledge of application-usage best practices
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture on the delivery of data and application architecture
• Collaborates with relevant operational and build teams to construct testing and implementation strategies
• Informs on product and services delivery progress in relation to application delivery
• Oversees tier 3 application support activities including the assessment and execution of application upgrades and patches
• Participates in mitigation and control activities as well as identifying and evaluating risks
• Manages people and technology changes; ensuring necessary stakeholders are informed
• Facilitates people management and resourcing; defining roles and responsibilities, staff reviews/appraisals, recruitment/dismissals and staff training
• Serves as technical adviser to management and provides software engineering perspective on system requirements
• Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science)
• 5 – 7 years of related experience
• Broad knowledge and awareness of evolving technical and business capabilities within the M365 environment including Power Platform and Copilot Studio
• Ability to lead projects focused on the development of application products and services delivery from end-to-end
• Experience in collaborating with technical and non-technical roles such as data modelers, architects, business analysts, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Experience in overseeing tier 3 application support activities including the assessment and execution of application upgrades and patches
• Ability to create conceptual and detailed technical design documents
• Experience in managing people and technology changes; ensuring necessary stakeholders are informed
• Ability to facilitate people management and resourcing; defining roles and responsibilities, staff reviews/appraisals, recruitment/dismissals and staff training
• Experience in informing on product and services delivery progress in relation to application delivery
• Experience in participating in mitigation and control activities as well as identifying and evaluating risks
• Ability to serve as a technical adviser to management and provide software engineering perspective on system requirements
• Compliance with all policies and standards
• One or more of the following skills: M365, Power Platform, Copilot Studio