Lead Application Development Engineer

Centene Corporation is a diversified national organization focused on improving health outcomes for its 28 million members through technology. The Lead Application Development Engineer will design, develop, and implement complex enterprise software solutions while collaborating with various technical and non-technical roles to ensure effective application delivery and support.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, and implements complex enterprise software solutions
• Collaborates closely with technical and non-technical roles such as data modelers, architects, business analysts, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide design, technical analysis, development/configuration, testing, implementation, and support expertise representing the interest of the business across the enterprise
• 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
• Ability to design, develop, and implement complex enterprise software solutions
• Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical roles such as data modelers, architects, business analysts, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Experience leading projects focused on the development of application products and services delivery from end-to-end
• Broad knowledge and awareness of evolving technical and business capabilities
• Ability to ensure that multiple products and services work together to meet business needs and add value for the customer
• Experience cultivating and disseminating knowledge of application-usage best practices
• Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architecture on the delivery of data and application architecture
• Experience collaborating with relevant operational and build teams to construct testing and implementation strategies
• Ability to inform on product and services delivery progress in relation to application delivery
• Experience overseeing tier 3 application support activities including the assessment and execution of application upgrades and patches
• Experience participating in mitigation and control activities as well as identifying and evaluating risks
• Ability to manage people and technology changes; ensuring necessary stakeholders are informed
• Experience facilitating people management and resourcing; defining roles and responsibilities, staff reviews/appraisals, recruitment/dismissals and staff training
• Ability to serve as technical adviser to management and provide software engineering perspective on system requirements
• Experience creating conceptual and detailed technical design documents
• Ability to comply with all policies and standards
• One or more of the following skills: Python, SQL, MongoDB, Event driven architecture