Software Engineer – Health Plan Systems

HealthPartners is hiring a Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and support its healthcare claims application. The role focuses on the Health Plan Systems platform and includes diagnosing issues, shaping technical solutions with business partners, and supporting application developers and analysts.

Responsibilities:

• Assesses, designs, builds, and deploys software and new application functionality
• Performs unit testing and directs and partners in system and end-user test planning and testing
• Maintains testing environment and data requirements within the test environment
• Analyzes functional and technical requirements for changes or enhancements and prepares system designs and specifications
• Diagnoses system failures, corrects issues, and assesses the issue in order to recommend actions to prevent re-occurrence of the problem
• Defines technical specifications based on business requirements; consults with Business Partners regarding technical possibilities and limitations
• Assists IT’s Business Partners with clarifying and prioritizing service requests
• Identifies the need for and recommends standard processes, procedures, and best practices
• Provides training, professional support and mentoring to Application Developers and other Analysts
• Supports 3rd party application software; interacts with vendors regarding problems, upgrade schedules, and software installations
• Provides requested documentation and interviews with auditors and third-party requestors

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, or equivalent experience/training
• Three (3) years' experience in analysis and developing custom software applications in a collaborative environment that includes business experts and other software developers
• Demonstrated desire and ability to grow into an owner role
• Technical fluency in multiple programming languages and platforms (Ex: Java, Python, MUMPS, ObjectScript)
• Experience with relational/non-relational database technologies
• Willingness and curiosity to learn a new programming language and proprietary development tool
• Ability to build, develop and test in multiple languages and platforms
• Experience with the healthcare software industry, especially in the health insurance field
• Experience with MUMPS/ObjectScript which is the primary coding language for our IRIS database
• candidates with experience in other programming languages will be considered
• Experience with Web Services, SQL, Java and other technologies that will be used as we move our technologies forward
• Experience with high volume, data intensive applications
• Experience with data modelling
• Experience with designing and building cloud platforms, including leveraging micro services and containers