Performs as an expert technical and IT industry resource to management, clients and development staff in new uses of IT and in all phases of major system and subsystem development. Performs in consulting role on internal and industry IT technical and business process capabilities, including leadership in the identification and recommendation of new IT opportunities. Able to formulate, contribute to, and direct task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for research, prototype, and proof-of-concept IT activities. Able to direct and participate in software/hardware release and installation task. Works under general supervision, and may provide specific guidance to others on complex.
Essential Functions:
- May direct software coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and installation tasks for on-line and batch processes in accordance w/ industry best practices and specific internal procedures and standards.
- Evaluates application architecture and design, development and maintenance programming deliverables, technology tools, and associated technology process for application systems, including integrated software and hardware application configurations.
- Participates in and may direct problem definition and problem resolution activities. Participates in and may direct the analysis and definition of efficient, cost effective application solutions which support client business processes and functional requirements.
- Coordinates w/ internal departments to provide associated deliverables required for projects.
- Conducts client interviews in order to perform analysis of client business processes and functional requirements and prepares appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information.
- Participates in and may lead IT forums, technology assessments, industry research, and other projects as needed.
- Prepares and conducts presentation of various work products and IT technology directions and strategies.
- Responsible for creation and review of new and revised internal IT standards and procedures.
- Performs knowledge transfer to other staff and may review the technical work of other staff.
- Completes administrative requirements in an accurate and timely manner.
Secondary Functions:
- Understand complex business problems and develop software solutions individually and as a member of a team.
- Requires in-depth analysis to identify and recommend new solutions to these more complex problems.
- Develop and maintain integrated data driven web based applications.
- Develop and maintain data driven executable applications.
- Test, implement and deploy web based applications and executable applications.
- Design, implement, modify and maintain relational database.
- Backup and restore database.
- Application configuration and system administration.
- Application support and maintenance.
- Create training material and application documentation.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Extensive and diverse experience (usually 10+ years) in all phases of applications software development/maintenance life cycles in a large mainframe or client server environment required.
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, required in Computer Science or related field.
- Masters degree preferred.
- Understanding of health care business and care delivery processes preferred.
- Demonstrated excellence in breadth of technical skills and technical knowledge required respective to various mainframe or client server programming development environments.
- Strong skills required in leadership, critical thinking and analysis, verbal and written communications, and interpersonal interactions (e.g. partnering, conflict management, consulting, etc.).
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in ASP.NET with Visual Basic code behind and JavaScript client side.
- Experience in design, development and support of enterprise application using Microsoft Visual Studio and Framework.
- Experience with SQL Server 2000 and up Database.
- Experience in creating complex joint queries and Stored Procedures.
- Experience in Web Controls and Web Services.
- Experience in HTML and Style sheet.
- Knowledgeable in creating web base graph reports.
- Experience with Microsoft Visio.
- Experience with Adobe Photoshop.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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