Software Engineer - Lead Job

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. focuses exclusively on providing government-sponsored managed care services, primarily through Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, to families, children, seniors and individuals with complex medical needs. The company served approximately 3.8 million members nationwide as of Sept. 30, 2015. For more information about WellCare, please review our website and view the company’s videos.

WellCare's Pega Project is a great opportunity for you! We are looking for engineers who are fast learners, who want to broaden their technical horizons, and who can master new skills quickly. We are seeking leaders in the current Pega industry to come on board full time, and to help elevate our team to the next level. This is a great opportunity to come in on the grass roots level, and grow your career in regards to hand's on development, leadership, and potentially management.

* Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops software applications. * Having a basic understanding of the main concepts of Pega PRPC, their features and limitations. * Writing code and unit tests, working on specs, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing. * Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges. * Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement. * Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and manages a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues. * Provide leadership and technical expertise in requirements solicitation, system analysis, technical design, programming and documentation of information systems. **Essential Functions:** * Prepare detailed functional specifications, design models, and system workflows from which software applications will be developed and implemented. * Conducts code reviews to ensure developers and engineers are adhering to development guidelines and industry best practices. * Leads, mentors and assists software developers/engineers with technical issues. * Leads software developers, software development teams and application development projects as assigned

* Experience working as a lead developer using a popular object-oriented language, ideally Java or C# in a Agile setting * Experience delivering web based applications using a popular container-based framework like Java/J2EE or Spring, C#/.NET or Ruby on Rails. * Workflow experience is preferred * Object Oriented experience is preferred * Workflow experience is preferred * Experience with PEGA technologies is highly preferred * Highly collaborative personality with demonstrated experience with at least one enterprise initiative using either an Agile or Lean approach where close interaction with business and technical users was required. * Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in computer science or equivalent **Experience:** * 3-5 years experience with implementing large complex development applications * 3 or more years experience application integration with third party/external sources. * 3-5 years experience with .NET (C#), Java (J2EE) and/or client server object oriented technologies * 3 or more years architecture exposure; SOA design and implementation * 2 or more years of Salesforce.com design, development and implementation experience * 5 or more years experience in database design, development, and normalization using Oracle DBMS * 5 or more years experience in both the use of structured and object oriented systems analysis, design, development tools, and techniques * 5 or more years experience with SQL * 3 or more years experience with XML * 3 or more years experience with PL/SQL **Licenses/Certifications:** * Certified Salesforce.com developer **Special Skills (e.g. 2nd language):** **Technical Skills/Requirements:** * Strong verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express and document complex technical concepts in business terms.