REPORTS TO: HEALTH INFORMATICS LEAD
Overall description of the position
Work as part of an agile team to design and implement new IT features and technologies. Deliver high quality and performance code in an agile environment. Use, evaluate and learn exciting new technologies that keep products and teams on the cutting edge. Provide technical direction and oversight for a single development project. Provide leadership to cross-functional teams. Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex solutions with a focus on quality, performance and resiliency.
Roles and responsibilities
Develop and routinely update all processes, standard operating procedures and documents for software management for the organization
Create, Review & Approve Design, Solutions and Technical Design Documents (TDD)
Engage with end user on requirements and application
Participate in requirements analysis, design and test plan creations and test result verification
Advise for production environment set up
Breaking down large scale projects into manageable chunks
Overseeing the work being done by other software engineers working on the team, coordinating team activities with other teams and product groups, maintaining software architecture standards
Consistently defines and applies technologies, standards and software engineering practices, mentoring other team members
Lead and Direct software engineering resources to ensure timely and quality delivery of services.
Responsible for mentoring junior talent as well as directing technical staff through technical challenges, tasks and projects.
Develop key product features within existing large-scale enterprise applications & new strategic initiatives.
Participate in the full SDLC involving design, implementation, testing, and launching.
Assist with the generation and analysis of business and functional requirements for proposed software solutions.
Participate in and sometimes lead architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction.
Generate data for project planning, including task breakdown and estimation of work for a project. Tracks status within the project as necessary.
Delegates tasks to project team members to balance work and increase team cross-training
Raises long-term architecture issues within project
Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application, and serve as a technical lead on small to midsize complex projects.
Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the other component pieces.
Maintain and support software solutions post-production.
Implements and debugs some of the more involved/complex functionality.
Performed other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a similar technical discipline
Experience; Knowledge, skills and abilities
· Experience:
5 years systems development experience
Successful full life-cycle implementation of a least 2 major projects
· Specialized knowledge:
Experience with software development methodology and release processes
Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools and peer review
Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques, IP protocols, interfaces and hardware subsystems
Possess different industries as a technical architect, from planning the structure of a large scale records database to the redesigning of a shop’s e-commerce facility, to name a few
Skills:
Experience in software development and coding in various languages (C#, .NET, Java etc.)
Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework
Possesses full working knowledge of technologies such as UNIX, Oracle, SQL Server and TCP/IP for example, as well as knowledge of one or more programming languages
Strong organizational, time management, computer and communication skills, leadership, coaching and team building skills to strengthen and cultivate relationship to help achieve organizational goal.
Ability to recognize the sensitivity to individual organizations needs and the impact on services of the introduction of IT solutions.
Abilities: Ability to multi-task, Analytical skills, Ability to follow verbal or written instructions, Thinking analytically, Communication, Using effective verbal communication, Using effective written communication, Handling stress & emotions, Concentrating on tasks, Making decisions, Adjusting to change, Examining/observing details, Sitting for long periods at a time
Interpersonal/Individual Competencies: ability to work with other team members, flexibility, decisiveness and personal integrity
Working conditions
Requires a minimum of planned 2 weeks of travel per quarter to provide technical support, mentoring and supervision. But must be able to work with very SHORT timelines that may require unplanned travels and long work hours
