Senior Application Developer & System Administrator

Your Role

The Third Party Application Solutions personnel within the Software Development Centers Of Excellence team perform hardware and software system administration as well as set quality expectations.

The Senior Application Developer & System Administrator will report to the Centers Of Excellence Senior Manager. In this role you will execute hands-on patching and upgrade functions, create automation solutions to reduce or eliminate repetitive manual activities, and perform traditional design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and support activities as directed by the Health Solutions portfolio in support of the use of the Epic software platform.

A smaller portion of the role requires establishment of quality expectations and learning academy curriculum for all activities above that guide less experienced developers and consultants who perform these or similar duties for the Epic platform.

Your Work

In this role, you will :

• Adopt and apply software engineering concepts and processes to software development
• Provide input to designs and technical specifications
• Develop user interfaces and application programs using the technical specifications and design documents provided
• Test, debug, and maintain code according to the technical specifications
• Provide knowledge transfer to less experienced staff
• Perform Windows Server + administration including setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Manage the backend components of Epic, ensuring smooth operations
• Perform regular preparations, staging, testing, and deployment of application & server upgrades, patches, and system maintenance
• Collaborate with other technicians & teams to address disk space issues, bugs, configuration, backup, and recovery fail-over & testing to ensure system stability
• Make high-level design and technical specification decisions related to systems architecture & infrastructure management specialized in Epic systems
• Automate systems administration tasks using PowerShell and YAML integrated with Ansible & Azure
• Handle top-level problems including low-level troubleshooting that others can’t solve
• Be a technical champion and advocate for the optimization of solutions needed to support Blue Shield’s growth and financial goals
• Provide technical leadership in establishing a competency center that educates other IT professionals on EPIC Administrative design & development practices
30+ days ago