Software Engineer - Senior 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. * The Senior Software Engineer leads a team of developers to provide business and technical expertise in requirements solicitation, system analysis, technical design, programming and documentation of information systems. **Essential Functions:** * Acts as principle contributor to technical feasibility studies, business cases, proposals, and 3rd party assessment. * Prepares detailed functional specifications, design models, and system workflows from which software applications will be developed and implemented. * Supports, troubleshoots, and maintains production systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing timely follow-up on identified issues. * Defines and maintains WellCare IT development standards and best practices. **Responsibilities of the role. What will the new hire do?** * Develop software utilizing Pega Rules Process Commander (PRPC) for both Business Process Management and Business Rules Development initiatives * Orchestrate Pega activities, rule sets, web services, zip files in order to support Pega Business Process Management and Business Rules Development. * Support post-production activities, include defect resolution and on-call.

* **Must have technical skills, years of experience in each** * At least 6 years of overall experience designing and building robust, distributed enterprise applications. * At least 6 years delivering web based applications using a popular container-based framework like Java/J2EE or Spring, C#/.NET or Ruby on Rails. * **Desired technical skills, years of experience in each** * At least 8 years of overall experience designing and building robust, distributed enterprise applications. * At least 8 years delivering web based applications using a popular container-based framework like Java/J2EE or Spring, C#/.NET or Ruby on Rails. * At least 8 years - Experience working as a senior developer using a popular object-oriented language, ideally Java or C#, in a commercial setting. * At least 3 years - Experience with PEGA or similar business process automation / improvement or workflow technology (Oracle BPM, etc.). * At least 3 years - Experience with any popular business or workflow rules engine * At least 3 years - Experience creating compelling phone or web-based user interfaces * At least 3 years of Healthcare experience * **Preferred technical skills, years of experience in each** * At least 8 years of overall experience designing and building robust, distributed enterprise applications. * At least 8 years delivering web based applications using a popular container-based framework like Java/J2EE or Spring, C#/.NET or Ruby on Rails. * At least 8 years - Experience working as a senior developer using a popular object-oriented language, ideally Java or C#, in a commercial setting. * At least 3 years - Experience with PEGA or similar business process automation / improvement or workflow technology (Oracle BPM, etc.). * At least 3 years - Experience with any popular business or workflow rules engine * At least 3 years - Experience creating compelling phone or web-based user interfaces * At least 3 years of Healthcare experience * **Must have leadership skills, years of experience in each** * (At least 6 years) Self-motivated, high-energy personality with a passion for creating business value. * (At least 6 years) Crystal clear oral and written communications with the ability to adjust their language appropriately for a given audience. * (At least 3 years) 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. * BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience * **Desired leadership skills, years of experience in each** * (At least 8 years) Self-motivated, high-energy personality with a passion for creating business value. * (At least 8 years) Crystal clear oral and written communications with the ability to adjust their language appropriately for a given audience. * (At least 6 years) 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. * BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience **Candidate Education:** * Required A Bachelor's Degree in **Candidate Experience:** * Required 5 years of experience in the development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale OLTP and DSS in a client-server environment * Preferred 2 years of experience in Healthcare * Required 3 years of experience in J2EE and Web Service * Required 5 years of experience in database design, development, and normalization using Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle DBMS * Required 5 years of experience in both the use of structured and object oriented systems analysis, design, development tools, and techniques * Required 5 years of experience in SQL * Required 3 years of experience in PL/SQL * Preferred 3 years of experience in using XML * Preferred 1 year of experience in Linux **Candidate Skills:Licenses and Certifications:** * A license in one of the following is required: **Technical Skills:** * Required Advanced Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) Good understanding Microsoft * Required Advanced Decision Support Systems (DSS) Net (C#, VP and ASP), preferred * Required Advanced J2EE * Required Advanced MS SQL * Required Advanced Oracle Database Management System (DBMS) * Required Advanced PL SQL * Required Advanced XML/HTML * Required Advanced Linux Operating System * Preferred Advanced Other Microsoft .Net (C#, VP and ASP)