ResponsibilitiesThePeraton Health, State and LocalSectorisseeking aSoftware Development, Lead Associateto join us in supporting andmaintainingthe Medicare FeeForService claims processing system. In this role,youwillbe asenior technical contributor onan Agile teamproviding maintenance and operations support for the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment (DME)contract.
As aSoftwareDevelopment, Lead Associate,you will work within a highly structured and rigorous development environment that follows theSAFeAgile/Scrum framework. This role focuses onhandling project coordination and technical design to hands-on coding, unit testing, and defect resolutionacross functional areasof themainframelegacyDME system.
Quality is vital to this mission,the rolewill build and execute unit test plans, test cases, and test dataincluding COBOL and Assembler components.This rolewill also handle installing changes into internal testing regions,troubleshootingandresolving defects,identifyingprocess improvements, andkeepingtechnical documentationcurrent.Additionally, thisLead Associaterole will betranslating customer goalsand requirementsinto actionableworkitems for the team, whileserving as a technical resource and mentor to developers.
Responsibilities:
- Design, codes,and unit tests, and debugsenhancementsand fixesto the health claims processing systemwhile adhering to strict coding standards.
- Participates as aseniormember of a persistentAgiledevelopment teamsupporting maintenance and operations.
- Leads and completes developmentofcomplex componentswithin the mainframe environment.
- Workswith minimal direction, exercising independent judgement on technical approaches and solutions.
- Leads andparticipatesin design activities,providingtechnical guidance on maintenance solutions.
- Demonstratesadvanceduse and application ofdevelopmentconcepts, practices, and techniques.
- Designs,preparesand executes unit tests;representsteam to clientson technical matters.
- Provides solutions to awidevariety ofcomplex technicalproblems.
- Contributes to strategictechnicaldirectionofthe developmentteams.
- Applies technical knowledge todelivermaintenance solutions acrossmultipletechnology areaswith minimal direction.
- Implements end-user and enterprise solutions of high complexity with minimal direction.
- Integratesdeeptechnicalexpertiseand business understanding todeliverstable, reliablesolutions for clients.
- Consults with team members and other organizations,clientsand vendors on complextechnical issues.
- Provides timeandresource estimates for assignedtasks andprojects.
- Developssolutions to complex business and technology problems in areas of provenexpertise.
- Mentors andprovidestechnical guidance to junior and mid-level developers on the team.
Qualifications
- Education & Experience:BS/BA with6+ yearsof relevant experience; orMasterswith 4 years of relevant experience; or HSdiplomawith10+ years experience.
- 6+years of mainframe development experiencein production or maintenance environment.
- Proficiencywith mainframe technologiesincluding COBOL, JCL, CICS, TSO and VSAM.
- Knowledge of health care claims processing, particularly Medicare Fee for Service.
- Abilityto perform well in a highly rigorousstructureddevelopment environment.
- Demonstratedexperience as aseniorsoftware developer in a mainframe environment.
- Demonstratedability todetermineand decompose businessand technicalrequirements.
- Application lifecyclemethodologyexperience,specifically Agile/SCRUM
- Strong communicationskills and technical writingability.
- Ability to develop application project solutions and estimating.
- Experience with Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B,DMEor Medicare Common Working File (CWF) specific processing systems.
- Experience working withor in support ofCMSprograms and contracts.
- Experience with DevOps/DevSecOpstools and frameworks through plan, define, build, test, release and deploy process.
- SAFeexperience and/or certification.
- Must be a US Citizen and be able to achieveandmaintainaPublicTrust clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Assembler language in a mainframe environment.
- Familiarity with development and collaboration tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Eclipse (IDz/RDz).
- Exposure to modern languages such as Java or Python.
Target Salary Range$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individuals experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
