Kaiser Permanente Health Plan Claims development team develops, deploys, and maintains national claims application systems. In 2009, Health Plan is working on many investment projects and supporting nearly 600 application systems. The Diamond claims team implements and supports claims processing across Kaiser in 4 regions. Our strategic goal is to upgrade our existing claims applications to one single instance, starting with the first region in 2010, migration to Perot's Xcelys claims application. This will move us from our traditional point to point methodology to SOA.
Essential Functions:
- As a Technical Lead you be will expected to lead and participate in meetings. These meetings may include requirements gathering, design, solutions alignment with Kaiser's Enterprise Architecture strategies, development, test methodology's and process, deployment, and all aspects of production support. The expectation is that the ideal candidate will be able to support all aspects of a solutions development lifecycle.
- The ideal candidate will also be able to create and understand business and technical requirements as well as support the creation of solution alternatives analysis regarding possible application or interface designs.
- This position requires someone who supports comprehensive documentation and is proactive with identification of opportunities regarding solutions.
- Job requirements include participating in code reviews of Java and SQL code, designing and writing services, training others to build and write services and providing overall technical direction to peers.
- You will be required to work with several organizations within Kaiser to coordinate the delivery of program changes within a planned release schedule.
- Responsibilities will also include working with user groups, analyzing reported problems, performing root cause analysis and presenting alternatives to correct the problem.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or 4 years of equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of overall experience developing and supporting applications in a large enterprise system
- 5+ years experience with architecture and development of Enterprise Java applications (J2EE)
- 5+ years experience with Java web development skills and excellent understanding of object-oriented analysis, design and programming.
- 2+ years experience with architecture and development of Java based portlets
- Advanced knowledge of web UI technologies including; AJAX, CSS, DOJO, HTML, JSP, Java (SOAP, JMS or EJB), Javascript, XML and XSL, Web services
- 2+ years experience with RAD 7.0, Eclipse, Visual, Ant/CruiseControl
Preferred Qualifications:
- Administration of Java Application Servers and Portals; IBM Websphere Application Server, IBM Websphere Portal Server.
- Java Swing
- Writes highly commented and maintainable code
- Good communication skills both verbal and written form
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and as a member of a team
- Experience with developing mobile applications with access to centralized data services.
- Experience promoting best practices for service based architecture and implementation.
- Experience performing functional testing of web applications to ensure usability.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.