Lead Software Engineer

Role Description

This position services as an expert technical and industry resource to management, clients and development staff in new uses of information technology in all phases of major system and subsystem development.

• Provides consultation on internal and industry IT technical and business domain process capabilities.
• Leads in the identification and recommendation of new IT opportunities and business operations as it relates to application development.
• Formulates, contributes to, and directs task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for research, prototype, and proof-of-concept IT activities.
• Directs and participates in all aspects of development tasks including data management, application architecture, and business architecture.
• Provides guidance to staff on complex assignments and mentors on new technologies.
• Works to break down a complex system into smaller components and coaches/leads a team of software engineers to design and develop these components.
• Functions as primary practitioner coach on the team to grow the capabilities of other engineers.
• Integrates systems to databases and other applications using middleware such as SnapLogic, REST based services, etc.
• Understands the relationship between applications and infrastructure.
• Acts as a leader in the developer community within Magellan and performs demo, knowledge sharing sessions.
• Writes technical blogs and is active in the Open Source Community.
• Acts as expert for automated testing strategies, including TDD and ATDD.
• Works on Agile software development projects.
• Understands advanced concepts of Containers, Micro-Services, Continuous Integration.
• Develops highly scalable applications in AWS cloud using tools like Cloud Formation Templates, EC2, SWF, ELB, Lambda, S3, RDS/Dynamo DB and others.
• Identifies and tracks key metrics produced by the application.
• Performs load and performance testing on the applications and has advanced troubleshooting ability to tune the application to scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years related experience including a minimum of 2+ years designing, building and deploying software in IT.
• Critical thinker.
• Demonstrated problem solving techniques.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Requirements

• A Combination of Education and Work Experience May Be Considered.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, life, and voluntary benefits.
• Short-term incentives may be available.

Company Description

Magellan Health, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace.

• Magellan is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam Era status, or any other factors protected by law.
• Magellan is the employer of choice for hard working people interested in making a difference in the health care industry.
• Our strong culture of caring is the common thread in both our business strategy and our work environment.
• We value professional growth and development, total health and wellness, rewards and recognition as well as employee unity.
• Magellan is a place where you can thrive.