Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acentra Health provides technology, services, and clinical expertise to improve healthcare outcomes, particularly in the public sector. The Development Manager supervises development teams, oversees application support and maintenance, manages development projects and initiatives, and provides technical leadership, quality control, and employee development.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with delivery development managers to provide day-to-day management and supervision of team members
- Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define and assess the development process across multiple projects, applications, and programs
- Understand team capabilities, provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring to ensure corporate goals are met
- Work with program and delivery teams on client-facing developer allocations
- Apply communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide the team on issues related to the design, development, security, and deployment of solutions and software systems
- Manage multiple internal initiatives aimed at continually improving the development organization, its cross-training and onboarding programs, and keeping it modern and in tip-top shape
- Measure and enforce the use of coding standards and best practices
- Ensure a strong customer service focus across the application and program development function
- Responsible for facilitating administrative employee functions such as, performance management, evaluations, reviews, etc
- Performs technical oversight and assessment of application and program development, development processes and people to ensure both project and corporate goals are met
- Supports proposal development by reviewing technical solution and pricing estimates
- Manages the development projects, new initiatives, and provides quality control on assigned project
- Guides team on issues related to design, development and deployment of solutions and software systems, applying expertise and knowledge of development field
- Enforces use of coding standards and best practices
- Provider Technical solutions to development team
- Read, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security Rules
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent experience in lieu of degree
- The Company acknowledges that practical, hands-on experience can provide skills and competencies equivalent to formal education. As such, in cases where a Bachelor's degree is typically required, the company will accept a minimum of six (6) years of directly relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree
- In instances where the candidate has an Associate's degree, the company will accept a minimum of three (3) years of directly relevant professional experience in lieu of the Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years of software development leadership, as related to job responsibilities
- 3+ years of people management and development leadership experience at large complex organizations (Matrix experience a plus)
- This position supports a federal contract. To meet the requirements for this work, applicants must: Be a U.S. Citizen, currently reside in the United States or its territories and have lived in the United States or its territories for at least three of the past five years
- Demonstrated working experience collaborating with cross functional teams drawing consensus and documenting new standards and processes
- Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and blended development methodologies experience
- Strong working experience with Jira
- Experience in the healthcare industry
- Knowledge/past working experience of:
- OOP concepts, including at least 1 OOP language (Java preferred)
- Managing application development on Java Spring framework
- Various front-end technologies (HTML5, JQuery JavaScript, etc.)
- Relational & Non-relational databases
- Good understanding of COTS products. (Oracle, Cognos, Oracle E-Business Suite, etc.)
- Power BI preferred, or similar metrics reporting tool
- Service-oriented or microservices architecture is strongly preferred
- Expert level experience in Java technologies, API's and integrations
- Understanding of Healthcare domain with experience in MMIS system is added preference
- Good experience configuring application code on-premise and cloud infrastructure (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud, IBM cloud)
Benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings
- Corporate wellness
- Educational assistance
- Corporate discounts
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