This position can be located in any of the following Coventry office locations: Scottsdale, AZ; West Sacramento, CA; Downers Grove, IL.
This is an EXCITING opportunity to be a part of Coventry's single largest internal investment in our Company's history and join the IT Medical Management team as we deliver transformational functionality to our business. Leveraging the latest in cutting edge technology including: .NET; ORACLE; WebSphere 8.0; JAVA, J2EE, and Microsoft Business Object Enterprise (Crystal and Webi Reports). Coventry Health Care is looking for an Applications Development Consultant to participate in the implementation and the on-going production support of the web based medical management packaged software.
GENERAL SUMMARY
The candidate will perform application architecture and design, development and maintenance programming, technology tool assessments, and associated tasks for application systems, including integrated software and hardware application configurations. Directs and participates in software/hardware releases and installation tasks.
The candidate will also perform as an expert technical resource to clients and development staff in all phases of major system and subsystem development, implementation, and post-implementation processes. Acts as a subject matter expert on IT technical and process capabilities. Provides guidance to staff on complex assignments.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participates in and may direct the analysis and definition of efficient, cost effective application solutions which support client business processes and functional requirements.
- Performs and may direct software coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and installation tasks for on-line and batch processes in accordance with industry best practices and specific internal procedures and standards.
- Analyzes business processes in order to define application functional requirements and technical specifications.
- Guides, formulates, contributes to, and directs task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for development and maintenance activities.
- Participates in and may direct problem definition and problem resolution activities.
- Coordinates with internal departments to provide associated deliverables required for the successful completion of development and maintenance assignments (e.g., database development, job scheduling, network support, help desk orientation, client implementation readiness, etc.).
- Conducts client interviews to perform analysis of client business processes and functional requirements. Prepares appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information.
- Participates in client committees and may coordinate client involvement in development and maintenance tasks as needed.
- Responsible for knowledge transfer to staff. May review the technical work of staff.
- May provide on-call support. May coordinate on-call response efforts as assigned.
- Performs other duties as required.
Qualifications:
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Previous (7-10 years) experience in all phases of applications software development/maintenance life cycles in a client server / web-based environment.
- Demonstrated excellence in technical skills and knowledge required in one or more higher level programming languages respective to various client server programming development environments.
- Strong skills required in critical thinking and analysis, verbal and written communications, and interpersonal interactions (e.g., partnering, conflict management, consulting, etc.)
- Understanding of health care business and care delivery processes preferred.
- Landacorp's CareRadius or maxMC knowledge preferred.
Coventry Health Care is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to building a talented and diverse team.
Job: Technicians
Primary Location: Downers Grove, IL, US
Other Locations: San Diego-California-United States,West Sacramento-California-United States,Scottsdale-Arizona-United States,
Organization: 10800 - Coventry Management Services
Schedule: Full-time
Job Posting: 2012-12-17 00:00:00.0
Job ID: 1211467