Senior Application Developer – Application Development – Blue Cross

Title of the Job: Senior Application Developer – Application Development

Location: Winnipeg, MB

Job Description: 599 Empress St, Winnipeg, MB R3G 3P3, Canada Req #424Tuesday, October 8, 2024About Manitoba Blue CrossWe’re a Manitoba-based, not-for-profit, health benefits provider with a vision to be the trusted and essential health and wellness partner for all Manitobans. Every dollar made is reinvested in our infrastructure, our people, and our province with the goal of providing better care for our members, expanding our community impact and broadening our health care knowledge.Why work for us?Manitoba Blue Cross, is a Manitoba Top Employer. We are empowered to give back to the community, and we know that caring needs to start in our workplace with our own Manitoba Blue Cross team. We actively foster a culture that focuses on your satisfaction, development, diversity, and growth.Culture of CaringWe strive to succeed at reaching our organizational goals, but we always make time to celebrate our successes. Having fun as a group and rewarding our employees for their accomplishments is an essential part of our workplace culture.We want our workforce to reflect the diverse community we serve, and we’re committed to creating a fair and respectful workplace. We offer a work environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance and support to advance your career that includes:

• Competitive starting salary.
• A comprehensive health benefit package.
• Hybrid work environment, flexible work schedules.
• Fully equipped onsite fitness center.
• Casual dress code to promote diversity and inclusivity.
• Personal and professional development.

Are you a driven, dedicated, and enthusiastic individual who wants to work in a friendly and rewarding environment? If so, we are looking for someone like you! The following position is open to anyone residing in Winnipeg and surrounding areas with valid work authorization.JOB SUMMARYSenior Application Developers:

• Design, develop and maintain applications.
• Work on all aspects of the technology stack, front end UI/UX, backend APIs, databases and data access, or cloud infrastructure.
• Work under the direction of team leads to complete Agile project lifecycles
• Provide occasional support for previously built applications and enhancements

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops high-quality code that satisfies customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity, and testability.
• Investigates and proposes solutions to development and design problems.
• Complies with specifications, standards, architectural guidance and best practices.
• Documents applications, testing and deployment as required.
• Coaches the application development team with regards to development best practices and other department standards.
• Acts as knowledge lead for select MBC Core Applications, coding languages, frameworks, process and tools.
• Participates in code reviews or uses collaborative programming techniques to promote high quality business outcomes.
• Creates and maintains unit and integration tests and conduct functional and performance testing where appropriate.
• Collaborates with stakeholders (e.g. business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, team leads and end users) to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
• Defines scope of work and development estimates.
• Troubleshoots application problems and makes appropriate modifications to correct them.
• Improves performance of existing software by diagnosing and resolving critical issues.
• Designs interactions between users and products or websites for optimal user experience.
• Performs other special assignments and related duties as assigned.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Dedicated to the principles of exceptional service; committed to responding to, anticipating and addressing customer needs, for both internal and external customers.
• High proficiency in Java and other coding languages (e.g. Javascript/Typescript, SQL).
• High proficiency in one or more frameworks and platforms (e.g. Lambda & Microservices and API Architecture, Spring MVC, Angular, Docker).
• Significant experience with AWS services including Elastic Load Balance, Elastic Container Service/ Fargate, Elastic Container Registry, CloudWatch, Pipelines/Codebuild, Image Deployment, S3.
• Significant experience with proficiency in front end development languages and tools including HTML, CSS and Webflow.
• Significant experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform or other).
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to deal with all levels within the organization in a team environment.
• Ability to mentor and coach team members.
• Ability to collaborate and share knowledge openly.
• Takes personal responsibility for assigned work as well as team goals to achieve success.
• Strong problem solving / analytical skills with an attention to detail
• Strong communication skills including verbal and written skills.
• Exercises judgment, tact and discretion when handling confidential information.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree, college diploma, or equivalent applied experience.
• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Two or more of the following certifications:

• AWS Developer – Associate certification
• AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate certification
• AWS Dev Ops Engineer – Professional certification
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Spring Professional Certification
• Oracle Certificate for Professional Java SE

• ITIL & TOGAF certification preferred.

Ready to Apply? We are excited to meet you!If you would like to join our team, you are invited to apply by submitting your resume and cover letter by clicking the “Apply” button below by October 22, 2024.To learn more visit: https://www2.mb.bluecross.ca/about-us/careersWe thank all applicants for their interest; however only those being considered will be contacted.Manitoba Blue Cross is committed to the principles of diversity, equity & inclusion and to promoting opportunities in hiring for everyone. We want our workforce to reflect the diverse community we serve, and we’re committed to creating a fair and respectful workplace.We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. If you require an accommodation during the hiring process, please let us know.

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