Application Developer, Consultant

Job Description

Your Role

The IT Health Solutions Health Data Strategy team is responsible for delivering on various initiatives including the Digital Health Record and health data exchanges with vendor partners . The Full Stack Engineer will report to the IT Applications Sr. Manager over Health Data Strategy. In this role you will be deeply involved in the design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality software solutions. Your role will focus on integrating security and automation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with an emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code and building infrastructure that supports CI / CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud-native delivery. You'll implement and enforce DevSecOps best practices tailored for Azure, contribute to infrastructure as code, and work closely with developers, testers, and cloud engineers to ensure code is secure, scalable, and production-ready from day one. This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about code quality, automation, and secure cloud development.. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will :

• Design and develop user interfaces and application programs using technical specifications and design documents, with a focus on cloud-native solutions and modern frameworks.
• Develop the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
• Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products / platform features.
• Recommend and implement improvements to departmental processes to enhance agility and efficiency.
• Enhance the reliability, scalability, and utilization of systems and applications through continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI / CD) practices.
• Monitor and manage software configuration changes to anticipate and address data reliability and customer satisfaction issues, leveraging cloud monitoring tools and practices.
• Coordinate sustaining support for multiple application platforms or business processes, ensuring seamless integration and operation in a cloud environment.
• Possesses and applies a broad range of expertise of principles and practices for the complex of complex assignments and for leading team members
• Recommends and pursues improvements to processes to enhance application functionality and reliability
• Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.
• Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends.
• Facilitates training for team members and guides them as required
• Has strong communication skills and can speak to all levels within the organization
• Has overall technical responsibility for the applications / interfaces / processes within their domain

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values :

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model :

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working :

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

Physical Requirements :

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office / deskwork - Activity level : Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity :

External hires must pass a background check / drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and / or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.