Programmer Analyst, Sr (Plan View)

Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT) is among the nation’s largest publicly traded managed health care companies. Health Net’s mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable. The company’s POS, HMO, insured PPO, behavioral health and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to more than 7 million individuals. For more information on Health Net, Inc., please visit the company’s Web site at www.healthnet.com

 

JOB SUMMARY:

 

Responsible for analyzing and defining problems to effect computer oriented solutions within the PlanView system environment.  Gather information, prepare charts and documents describing what needs to be done and how it is to be done.  Analyze existing systems; design enhancements to the existing system; develop new forms, reports and screens; confer with users; determine source data, processing requirements, output formats, timing and cost estimates, install and test moderately complex software packages if necessary, verify that systems meets performance criteria, develop test data; test and debug programs; document all procedures utilized by programs following System Development life Cycle methodology; evaluate and/or modify computer programs; select precoded program elements; develop special and general or multi-purpose programs to facilitate interface with other systems; install, document, maintain compilers, programming of other software packages and database systems; monitor systems performance; plan, design and implement data communications networks, including computer-to-computer links, terminal to mainframe links, microcomputer-to-microcomputer links and provide assistance to users on how to use the PlanView system environment.

 

The general role of the back-end administrator is to set up, administer, maintain and troubleshoot the database(s), application installation, back-end tools, and to support the user community with technical and functionality issues as a “second line of defense”.  The back-end administrator is usually responsible for communication with PlanView Product Support.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Leads and coordinates the technical development activities of small to moderate size projects with general direction from the project manager and/or manager. Develops, tests, debugs, maintains, and documents moderately complex to extremely complex components of information systems applications. Creates and/or reviews assigned product/project deliverables for small to moderate size projects (i.e., impact assessments, external and internal specifications, code, manuals, education material, installation material, estimating project tasks, status reporting, issue resolution, etc.). Creates and reviews unit, integration, system, and/or QA test plans/scripts; executes tests; analyzes the results. Leads design reviews and code reviews/inspections for assigned projects. Provides technical leadership to project team members, clients and vendors regarding technical issues.



REQUIREMENTS:

 

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field.

 

Certification/License:

 

Experience:

Minimum five to seven years relevant and applicable experience.

 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:Experience with configuration and administration of IIS 6.x Setup, SSL, authentication, pooling, lockdown, etc.Medium competency in Database administration Oracle 9x experience (>=1 yr) Create/modify stored procedures (basic), tables, views and functions (basic) Database schema theory (snowflake, star) Normalization Aggregation Data Marts/Data Warehouses ETL (Extract, transform and load) Backups/restoreMedium competency at using / coding Oracle SQL PL/SQL (SQL language for oracle) TOAD and/or Oracle Developer (applications) Create/modify complex queriesBasic to Medium competency understanding ASP code Experience with web-based ASP applications Read ASP code Basic troubleshooting of ASP codeExperience using or a demonstrated understanding of the following Server administration (Windows 2000/2003) concepts: User setup Local User Rights Domain/Active Directory theory Moderate to advanced registry experience Registration of services and DLL files Services DCOMCNFG Process troubleshooting Folder/file rights RAID configuration Disaster recovery implementation and management Hardware theory Performance monitoringExperience using or a demonstrated understanding of the following Networking Concepts: TCP/IP and UDP DNS NT Domain theory/Active Directory Trusts Network monitoring FTP HTTP HTTPSUnderstanding of three-tier web application architecture (i.e. Application Server, DB Server, Web Server) Command line and scripting Creating/modifying batch file/cmd files NT/Windows command line “commands”Competency with use of FTP protocol

 

OR


Any combination of academic education, professional training or work experience, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.

 

Health Net, Inc. supports a drug-free work environment and requires pre-employment background and drug screening.

 

Health Net and its subsidiaries are an Equal opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/V/D.