Software Engineer III (Clinical Repository)

Capital Blue Cross is seeking a Software Engineer III to support its clinical data technology initiatives. The role will build, maintain, and enhance a proprietary clinical data analytics repository while leading projects, analyzing business and technology needs, developing solutions, and supporting healthcare data systems.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, lead + oversee projects using project management process to ensure due dates + budgeted costs
• Coordinate w/ customers + IT
• Analyze + research business problems to determine impact on existing business + IT systems + feasibility of automation
• Conform w/ PMO guidelines + procedures when developing IT solutions to defined business problems using structured methodologies
• Conduct meetings w/ customers to ensure requirements are defined + satisfied
• Design innovative solutions using emerging + existing tech, + determine feasibility + practicality of implementation within current or future environments incl processes req to support accepted solutions
• Prepare test data + conduct program + system tests to ensure compliance
• Assist customers in establishing acceptance criteria + effectiveness of proposed solutions
• Maintain knowledge of dept’s programming languages + tools, coding + design techniques, db management systems, processing platforms + emerging tech via continued education+ training
• Analyze functional + tech aspects of existing systems to ID areas to improve for cost savings + quality + service
• Develop + maintain programs or systems and related elements (scripts, stored procedures, docs, maint schedules, etc)
• Lead or participate in eval + selection of vendor software + integrate software with existing systems
• Act as a focal point for problem resolution +customer inquiries
• Analyze + research new tech, tools + methodologies
• Multitask + adapt to changing priorities of customers
• Work independently + w/ a project team
• Communicate effectively in presentations, documentation, + all communications
• Ability to provide off-hours assistance to support customers + IT initiatives
• May undergo background checks

Requirements:

• Software Engineer III (Clinical Repository) for Capital Blue Cross to report to HQ at Harrisburg, PA and may work remotely from any state/metro area permitted by corporate policy
• Must have Bachelors in Comp Sci, Bus Admin, or related field; and 2 yrs relevant IT exp
• Also requires skills (2 yrs exp) in: data analytics; analysis and design concepts; database management technologies; data modeling practices and database platforms; programming languages, testing and productivity tools; interpreting and applying customer business practices, procedures and concepts; project management techniques; server technologies and platforms; healthcare standards and parsing complex clinical data formats; data analytics platform that provides insights in to healthcare data (including claims and clinical); clinical data formats (organizing, mapping and presenting insights and opportunities); HL7, FHIR; clinical data formats (CCD, ADT, Labs); and C#, Node.js, Python, SQL, Informatica and REST API