Senior Technical Consultant

Job Description: PREMERA. Applying innovation and strategy to create leading-edge health coverage and benefit solutions for our members.

PREMERA's culture promotes individual development, fosters innovation, and rewards success. We are creative, strategic thinkers who use our talents to fulfill our mission of creating peace of mind for our members. First established in 1933, the PREMERA family of health-care companies is headquartered in Washington and serves over 1.5 million members in several Western States. Our unique value proposition is built on a strong local presence and national capabilities.

If you would like to apply your skills and experience to create health-care solutions, consider the following position:


Job Summary:
Works with the business to provide technical expertise, architecture and design solutions for complex, business critical systems solutions. Performs systems/problem analysis associated with Applications Development workloads encompassing on-going production support. Organizes and leads technical efforts associated with application development requests representing complex, business critical projects. Consistently and effectively directs and communicates project status, schedules and risk assessments. Provides appropriate staff mentoring and guidance to foster a strong team atmosphere with an eye to customer service. Conducts regular project meetings to provide on-going visibility on status, schedules, and issues. May monitor matrixed staff performance and provide timely feedback to promote development and address problems

Responsibilities:
1. Technical Systems Analysis and Design
' Provides design and technical consulting expertise for complex, high-impact projects.
' Factor current business operations and future business objectives into technical architecture and design.
' Facilitate design walkthroughs with IT and business staff to validate solutions against business requirements and IT architecture.
' Facilitate design reviews with business unit management to gain approval.
' May lead software evaluation projects to match requirements with software architecture / standards, providing technical leadership for alternatives analysis and recommendations, including buy-vs.-build decisions.
' May set technical direction for Application environments and tools.
' Participates in enterprise-wide architecture activities and workgroups.
2. Application Systems Construction and Turnover
' Develop program specifications, construct/modify code and integrate with vendor software to meet business needs. Follow development standards and technical guidelines as stipulated by department standards and procedures.
' Perform unit testing and document results according to System Development Methodology guidelines to ensure modifications/functions meet desired results.
' Support testing associated with cross-functional project team efforts as dictated by project assignment.
' Organizes activities and provides direction and mentorship to less experienced associates.
3. Production Support and Problem Solving
' Independently analyze and resolve large, complex, high-risk, production problems, assessing alternatives as appropriate and implementing long-term solutions. Successful performance includes demonstrated ownership and timely responses to production problems and business unit inquiries.
' Produce appropriate documentation and notifications for changes to production systems or fixes to production problems. Notifications include team members, production control and affected business units.
' Conduct post-implementation reviews, generate problem reports and provide appropriate feedback concerning production implementation efforts.
4. Project Management
' Manage and direct multiple project efforts as assigned.
' Follow System Development Methodology guidelines to manage and execute project activities.
' Provide leadership and direction to matrixed project staff.
' Develop and maintain detailed project plans using standard tools and conventions.
' Monitor and communicate project status and schedules to appropriate levels of business and IT management.
' Manage and resolve project issues.
5. Customer Contact
' Directly accountable for representing systems to business unit customers, spanning all levels of assigned business areas.
' Strong communication/consulting skills required for interviewing and documenting thorough sets of requirements associated with requested

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