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At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, we have an exciting opportunity for an energetic, passionate, and accomplished digital solutions developer/manager responsible for solutions, development, and production support to enable a personalized, consistent, and engaging customer experience across all BCBSMA digital assets.

This critical hands-on technical role, reporting directly to the Director Solution Engineering Delivery, works closely with key senior business and technology partners, vendors, and service teams to deliver and support API & EDI applications for our members, providers, and accounts. This is a hands-on technical position that requires the ideal candidate to actively lead technical discussions around architecture, design, development, and operational support.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily accountable for the technical direction and leadership for API & EDI solutions, ensuring sustainable and measurable continuous improvement is achieved.

• Technical team leadership skills; specifically supporting API & EDI solutions.

• Lead/Manage team of engineers, analysts, and QA resources consist of full time and vendor resources.

• Drive technical products for API & EDI implementations (including consideration for maintenance and enhancements, production support and technology upgrades)

• Partner with other technology teams (e.g., architecture, security, infrastructure, data warehouse & analytics) to assess impacts of their initiatives and ensure that technical solutions are aligned with overall IT direction.

• Keep stakeholders well informed of status of development effort and serve as liaison between engineers and business partners.

• Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical resources and leadership. Provide technical guidance on alternative approaches to issues that arise. Document and articulate complex solutions via diagrams and presentations.

• Provide resource & effort estimations and partner closely with developers, analysts, testers and other Agile POD members to deliver optimal solutions and its support.

• Coach, mentor and influence technology and business stakeholders on how best to leverage the Digital platforms/solutions and maximize business value

• Provide the conduit between business and technical resources to ensure technical design, development and testing meet the needs of our business partners

• Ability to thrive in an Agile POD environment with virtual teams comprised of onshore/offshore and local/remote resources

• Reviews and ensures major implementation approach are consistent, maintainable, and flexible.

• Develops and manages effective collaborative relationships with other departments, groups, peers, and subordinates.

• Capable of leading API & EDI delivery end to end which includes Planning, Design, Development, Testing, and Delivery.

• Own creation and deployment of API led design strategy, API usage framework, and project team API enablement guidance as a core member of the Integration and Interoperability Team (IIT).

• Effectively communicates project expectations, issues, risks, and decisions to project team and business stakeholder related to API implementation.

• Designs, Develop and prototypes cloud deployed, and DevOps enabled scalable solutions to business problems in alignment with the architecture direction and standards.

• Own the Performance, Reliability, Availability and Scalability of the APIs and EDI transactions.

Technical Solution/Product Delivery Experience:

• Full-Stack Engineering vision: Deep hands-on experience architecting, design solutions, developing, delivering, and supporting integration applications.

• Strong delivery experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud, API gateway - Apigee along with containerization technologies such as Tanzu/OCP.

• Hands on experience with EDI transaction is a plus.

• Experience in spring (Boot, Data, Cloud etc.)

• Test capability SOAPUI, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, Wireshark, Postman

• Multi Database Experience Object, Relational, Graph and NOSQL (SQL server /Oracle /MySQL /MongoDB /Cassandra /Hadoop)

• JavaScript (NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, Ionic), HTML5, CSS3

• Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0, REST, SOAP, MQ, KAFKA, JDBC, X.12, JSON, Microservices etc.

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API security standards and implementation (Active Directory Federation, LDAP, OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenID, SAML, ClientID/Secret)

• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools Jenkins, Maven, Jira, Artifactory, ServiceNow, GitHub, Release Management

• Proven ability to design, optimize, and integrate business processes across disparate system and technologies

• Experience with Agile methodology, testing tools, deployment and configuration management tools, and secure infrastructure management

• Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop & document processes and methodologies

• Experience in HealthCare industry is plus.

• Experience in Cloud Platform Engineering and exposure to " you build it, you run it" model is plus.

  Leadership/Partnership Experience:

• Experience leading teams in design, delivery, and supporting technical solutions

• Ability to build strong relationships in a matrix organization, particularly with teams in enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, services, and data analytics

• Experience in forging relationships across technical & business resources and leveraging networks

• Experience with assessing & collaborating with technology vendors and researching providers to solution new business capabilities

• Ability to align with leadership direction and provide recommendations to optimize technology to deliver business value quickly with quality

• Ability to coach, mentor, and influence resources inside and outside of the direct span of control

Essential Personal Characteristics:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Proven self-starter with demonstrated ability to make decisions

• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills

• Able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, flexible, Agile POD environment

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and excellent organizational and time management skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, or related field

• Minimum of 8 years of technical experience

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a leadership role delivering complex enterprise projects

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Minimum Education Requirements:

High school degree or equivalent required unless otherwise noted above

LocationQuincyTime TypeFull time

At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, we believe in wellness and that work/life balance is a key part of associate wellbeing. We provide a flexible hybrid work model in which roles are designated as resident (on site 4-5 days/week), mobile (on site 1-3 days/week), or eworker (on site 0-3 days/month).

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, has a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for building entry. Your offer of employment is dependent upon either being fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or an accommodation based on a disability or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance by submitting a request to Human Resources.