Lead Application Development Engineer

Centene Corporation is a diversified, national organization that aims to improve health outcomes through technology. The Lead Application Development Engineer will design, develop, and implement complex enterprise software solutions while collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver application products and services effectively.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• Equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position
• Python
• SQL
• MongoDB
• Event driven architecture