Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey’s health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.
Manages, mentors, and provides daily oversight of the various application developers, business systems analysts, testers, and scrum masters in the units for which they are responsible. Accountable for the technical aspects of the applications they support along with day-to-day operations ensuring system availability and performance as aligned to Horizon SLAs. Oversees and ensures software engineering lifecycle discipline (Agile/Waterfall) within the team. They serve as a technical expert and people leader, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles while driving best practices in software development
Responsibilities:
Manages the day-to-day operations of a technology team with a focus on the maintenance and software engineering and development of application systems.
Drives adoption and adherence to Horizon software development life cycle methodology (waterfall/Agile/Kanban) ensuring quality artifact production.
Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work.
Ensures adherence to policies, plans, standards, objectives, budgets, staffing allocations and best practices in application development.
Manages and tracks team-level project details and serves as the technical subject matter expert, providing leadership during periods of transition. This includes managing technical risks, dependencies, and ensuring timely resolution of critical issues.
Manages relations, day to day expectations, time reporting accuracy, and adherence to contract SLAs of vendor partners within the team.
Oversees the design, development, and deployment of scalable and resilient applications that support a product focused on achieving distinct business outcomes.
Provide hands-on technical guidance, code reviews, and oversight to maintain high coding standards
Facilitate cross-team collaboration, where needed, to integrate applications and ensure seamless data flow
Provides staff management oversight including hiring, promoting, or making recommendations for staff. Conducts performance reviews and assessments, manages performance, engages in skills assessment, and promotes professional development of staff.
Education/Experience:
Bachelor Degree required or 12 years equivalent work experience
5 years - Experience with information technology concepts, application development and/or enterprise system maintenance methodology, terminology, and standards required
5 years – Systems maintenance and/or programming experience required
3 years - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language and/or one enterprise system in use at Horizon BCBS
Product Management experience preferred
Preferred candidates will bring strong technical skills in Microsoft .NET and Java, a deep understanding of Object-Oriented programming concepts, and the ability to mentor and guide a development team
Additional Licensing, Certifications, Registrations
Knowledge:
Knowledge of information technology concepts, methodology, terminology, and standards.
Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in one or more enterprise IT systems
Knowledge and experience in Agile/Scrum and/or waterfall lifecycle methodologies
Skills, and Abilities:
Proven Skill to develop and/or maintain an enterprise IT system
Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
Microsoft Office and email skills are required
Adaptive to high pace and changing environment.
Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers.
Must be willing to adjust schedule to plan and perform maintenance and upgrades outside of business hours and be part of an on-call rotation.
Travel (If Applicable)
Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware
Salary Range:
$121,200 - $165,375
This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes:
Disclaimer:
This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.
