WellPoint is one of the nations leading health benefits companies and a Fortune Top 50 company. At WellPoint, we are dedicated to improving the lives of the people we serve and the health of our communities. WellPoint strives to simplify the connection between health, care, and value for our customers.
Bring your expertise to our innovative, achievement-driven culture, and you will discover lasting rewards and the opportunity to take your career further than you can imagine.
Solutions Engineer Advisor Sr
Responsible for architecting and designing SOA solutions to support enterprise applications and initiatives for multiple of WellPoints core processing platforms. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
- Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
- Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
- Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
- Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
- Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
- Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
- Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.
- Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
- Owns the technical development environment and works on the Enterprise team.
- Leads multiple or large projeccts and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines.
- Leads vendor evaluation and analysis.
- Requires an BA/BS degree in related field or technical institute training;
- 7 or more years related experience; multi platform experience, and expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
- Incumbent should also have the ability to mentor others, and provide troubleshooting support.
- Demonstrated experience in taking the high level enterprise strategy and SOA blueprints and converting into system/service level deliverables for project delivery
- Demonstrated technical leadership, team leadership and interpersonal skills and experience
- Demonstrated experience in mentoring, coaching associates in various aspects including SOA technology and adoption of it
- Demonstrated planning, execution, analytical, problem-solving skills
- Ability to conduct an analysis of business needs, including scheduling meetings, planning agendas, conferring with business line leaders, documenting and making verbal and written presentations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience
- Strong understanding of modern project life cycle methodology (Lean RUP, agile), Service Life Cycle (SLC) and procedures in building and supporting large complex systems
- Strong knowledge of organization policies and procedures and healthcare industry experience
- Demonstrated experience in working with various geographically diverse associates and vendor partners
- Demonstrated on-time and on-budget system delivery skills and experience
- Demonstrated experience in OOAD using established methodologies and notations such as UML and using design patterns
- Demonstrated experience with large-scale distributed systems using message queues, SOA, ESB and related technologies
- Demonstrated experience in designing and building systems for high availability, security, scalability and high volume transactions
- Demonstrated experience in using Rational Toolsets (Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear Quest, RSA, RSM) to deliver systems. Prefer 5+ years of experience in Rational Toolset
- Experience or knowledge on data transformation tools and XSLT
- Demonstrated experience in Common Information Model (CIM), Interface design and development - WSDL, XSD etc.
- Demonstrated experience in Test Driven Development using test frameworks
- Demonstrated experience in Web Services development platforms either Java/J2EE and/or .Net technologies.
- Demonstrated 5+ years of middleware, SOA, BPM and web services architecture and development.
- Preferably on IBM platforms (BPM - Business Process Manager, WSRR - WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, ESBs – DataPower and Message Broker etc.)




















