Software Engineer

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and support data solutions for targeted outreach campaigns. This role involves working with large data sets and collaborating with business and technical teams to ensure accurate data flows into campaign management systems.

Responsibilities:

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate complex information systems
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts
• May serve one or more project team roles, such as project lead, business systems analyst, or technical lead, for small to medium efforts or manage phases of medium to large efforts
• Maintains technical skill set for software languages, databases, platforms, operating systems, utilities and networks needed to support work assignments
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems
• Regularly provides guidance and training to less-experienced analysts/programmers

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested
• 1 year - Experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards required
• 3 years - Systems and programming experience required
• 1 year - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language in use at BCBST
• Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required
• Proven analysis, design, and coding skills, and demonstrated success in leading large and complex projects
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and translate technical and/or or complex concepts into information meaningful to project team members and/or business personnel
• Be organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks with exceptional work ethic
• Leadership skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers
• Strong SQL expertise
• Working knowledge of Python
• Experience using Azure DevOps to manage and maintain code
• Experience deploying and supporting data solutions using CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and implementing data quality control (QC) checks to validate completeness, accuracy, and consistency of data used in member outreach campaigns
• Familiarity with analytics concepts
• Experience working in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments