Developer Advisor (53439) Any WellPoint location
WellPoint is the nation's leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide.
Developer Advisor
Responsible for programming on specific application subsets of the company's application portfolio, participating in all phases of the development and maintenance life cycle, typically for an assigned business unit or corporate department and utilizing various customer technology platforms. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
* Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
* Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
* Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
* Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
* Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
* Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
* Assesses current status and supports data information planning.
* Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
* Maintains technical development environment.
* Mentors others and may lead multiple or small to medum sized projects.
* Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, dsign sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues.
* Supports vendor evaluation.
Requirements:
* Requires a BS degree in related field or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
* Multi database and/or multi language preferred.
* This position will focus on .Net development for a web Portal. Successful candidate will have:
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+ In-depth and very strong knowledge of .Net and UI technologies and best practices such as jquery, JSON, MSMQ, WCF services and others.
+ Experience in leading teams of developers, making sound architectural decisions for critical systems, communicating with business and other acitivities.
+ Very good experience in handling high volume web sites, knows excellent performance techniques, test driven development and web services.
+ Should be hands on to do Proof of Concepts and Estimations for Microsoft Solutions. The estimations levels could be detail or rough order of magnitude
+ Ability to quickly learn existing complex systems
+ Excellent Design and Documentation skills with OOA/OOD, design patterns and UML Additional Skills
+ SQL and RDBMS knowledge/fundamentals is required too.
+ 5+ years of core coding experience in .Net
+ 2+ years of technical lead experience and ability to mentor others, lead multiple small projects and provide troubleshooting support.
+ Experience in Clear Case and Clear Quest
+ Basic/Medium level of IIS administration skills
+ Very strong web application concepts
