Hiring for Senior Application Developer in Philadelphia, PA

Role: Senior Application Developer Location: Philadelphia, PA Duration: Long Term Job purpose: The Senior Application Developer will deliver technical solutions for a Provider Engagement web portal application that allow area health-care providers to connect and interact with Independence Family of Companies in order to transact business electronically. This position will work closely with various solution development and infrastructure teams across the Independence FOC, such as application development teams, DevOps team, and System Administrators. The Developer will work with business partners to understand business needs and to translate the specific requirements into technical solutions. The Developer will develop, maintain, and administer Liferay-based web portal solutions, customizations to the core Liferay product, and Spring Java APIs that enable business functionality. Front-end development experience is a plus. The Developer is expected to bring the business requirement from a conceptual design to a technical solution through all phases of the software lifecycle: technical design, development, unit test, functional test support, and production implementation. Active participation in daily scrums within the Agile framework is expected. Job description/main accountabilities:

• Develop software solutions which support the business data requirements.
• Set up and maintain configuration and development platform for Liferay portal solutions.
• Manage growth and scale of web server farm. Plan capacity and load test for anticipated need.
• Interact with Liferay product support team to address functional defects and system vulnerabilities.
• Define and document the technical requirements within Azure DevOps.
• Ensure compliance with security practices within the DevOps process.
• Participate in on-call support duties and daily scrum meetings.
• Develop architecture diagrams appropriate for the application.
• Conduct and participate in technical architecture reviews to validate the solution's conformance to customer and systems requirements
• Work with Application Architects and Database Administrators to enable full-stack solutions that integrate front-end content management systems and applications and backend database systems or APIs.
• Develop web pages within the Liferay framework.
• Develop web pages within the Angular framework.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
• Produce system documentation including technical requirements, user stories, architecture diagrams.
• Support application testing and production implementation as required
• Assist in the development of the coding standards.
• Assist other team members
• Stay current with industry content management system best practices and standards
• Conduct peer reviews
• Work with Customer teams to gain a solid understanding of the business rules and systems that integrate with Portal technologies.
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in a technology related field or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of proven experience in Java development, web and portal technologies, content management systems, or distributed systems integration.
• Highly skilled in enterprise Java / Java EE technologies, Servlets/JSP, Spring and Hibernate.
• Knowledgeable in web interface technologies: HTML, JavaScript, Angular, SAML, REST API, SOAP, and XML technologies.
• Solid knowledge of Windows and Linux OS, JBOSS AS, Apache Tomcat, LDAP, and Azure Active Directory.
• Advanced understanding and experience in Java and OO design.
• Ability to work within an Agile Methodology and according to the DevOps process using Jenkins, Maven, BitBucket, Git, and JUNIT.
• Expert knowledge of database systems, including Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. Fluency in SQL query techniques.
• Experience with Liferay upgrades preferred.
• Ability to improve application performance and identify performance tuning opportunities.
• Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to define deliverables, tasks, and dependencies for multiple work streams.
• Adhere to enterprise application architecture policies and standards.
• Adhere to enterprise security standards and practices.
• Strong team player, excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical teams.
• Fast starter, effectively deliver with limited supervision. Ability to work under pressure and meet aggressive deadlines.
• Experience with facilitating requirements and/or design meetings.
• Good organizational and technical writing skills, including creation of Functional Specifications, Process Models, Use Cases, Functional Diagram Business Requirements.
• Ability to multi-task with several concurrent issues and projects.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Healthcare payer knowledge preferred.
• Liferay certification preferred.