Advanced IT Developer

Posted Mar 1

Florida Blue, a GuideWell Company, has been providing health insurance to residents of Florida for 75 years. Driven by its mission of helping people and communities achieve better health, the company serves more than five million health care members across the state. We are looking for exceptional people who will bring our mission to life and succeed by putting the member first.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits, work-life balance, flexible work arrangements, opportunities for growth and development, and a great place to work across our enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

  • Write code for intermediate level system designs and spanning platforms. Write code for enhancing existing programs or developing new programs
  • Code and/or create Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
  • Document detailed technical specifications for subsystems. Identify integration points.
  • Perform unit testing and debugging. Set test conditions based upon code specifications. Seeks review by more senior or Advanced IT Developers.
  • “Scope” time, resources, etc., required to complete programming projects. Seek review from other IT Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts or Project Managers on estimates.
  • Supports transition of application throughout the Product Development life cycle. Document what must be migrated.
  • Research vendor products / alternatives. Assists with vendor product gap analysis / comparison.
  • Accountable for including IT Controls and following standard corporate practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity, as well as availability of the application and data processed or output by the application.
  • Ensure all SDLC guidelines are adhered to as defined by the SDLC Office to support audit compliance.

Minimum Requirement

  • 4+ years related work experience with IT development/programming/coding
  • Experience with Hadoop and Scala
  • Demonstrated database and SQL skills
  • Experience and understanding with unit testing, release procedures, coding design and documentation protocol as well as change management procedures
  • Proficiency using versioning and debugging tools
  • Proficiency using standard desktop applications such as MS Suite and flowcharting tools such as Visio
  • Strong critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy
  • Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • ETL Warehousing
  • Spark Experience
  • Experience with Postgres

We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor VISAs.

General Physical Demands:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for our employees and communities.