Developer Sr (53438)
WellPoint is the nation's leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide.
Developer Sr (53438)
Responsible for 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.
* Collaborates with engineers and graphic designers, analyzes and classifies complex change request and reviews and evaluates possible enhancements.
* Works with development team to develop and define application scope and objectives and prepare functional and/or technical specifications.
* Analyzes and evaluates detailed business and technical requirements.
* Codes and maintains complex components of information systems.
* Mentors others on coding standards and performs code reviews.
* Develops and performs system testing and fixes defects identified during testing and re-executes unit tests to validate results.
* Aids in integrating activities with other IT departments for successful implementation and support of project efforts.
* Provides on call support and monitors the system and identifies system deficiencies.
Requirements:
* Requires an BS degree or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
* Incumbent should also have the ability to mentor others, lead small projects and provide troubleshooting support.
* In-depth and very strong knowledge of .Net and UI technologies and best practices such as jquery, JSON, MSMQ, WCF services and others.
* 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
* 5+ years of core coding experience in .Net
* Experience in using Clear Case and Clear Quest
* Strong web application fundamentals
* Basic level of IIS administration skills
