Are you a software developer, with hands-on experience in Spark?

Our Senior IT Developer, supporting Clinical Data, including HL7, CCDA, ADT/ORU, is responsible for development, programming, coding complex and business critical Information Technology solutions

At Florida Blue, a GuideWell company, we build innovative, enterprise-scalable end to end data analytics enabled products and services used by our internal users and external partners including Members, Providers, and Agents, with an emphasis on keeping health information secure and supporting network and data center infrastructure. As we strive to work cross-functionally across the enterprise to build new services, tools, and evaluate new technologies, we welcome self-driven and strongly motivated people who enjoy brainstorming and embrace best practices in secure and scalable design, deployment, and development.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits, work-life balance, flexible work arrangements, opportunities for growth and development, and a great place to work across our enterprise!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides input to technology strategy implementation based on leading-edge industry standards, best practices, and comprehensive understanding of business operations.
• Write code, mostly for new programs, for the most complex system designs and provides consultative guidance on project with extensive size, scope and risk. Write programs that span platforms. Code to and/or create Application Programming Interfaces
• Write detailed technical specifications for entire systems (made up of several subsystems). Identify integration points. Review technical specs created by other developers. Ensure sufficient quality and compliance of documentation to architectural standards
• Consult and partner with other Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts and Project Managers. “Scope” time, resources, etc. required to complete programming projects. Seek review from other Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts or Project Managers on estimates. Incorporate other Developer’s scope information into own scope document (for integration points)
• Perform unit testing and debugging. Set test conditions based upon code specifications.
• Provides insights/ input on integration issues.

What you will need:

• 5+ years software development coding experience
• Extensive hands-on coding experience in Spark
• Experience writing complex SQL queries and extensive data warehousing knowledge
• Experience working with different file formats including XML, Json, Parquet.
• Experience developing code to process large volume data in batch and real time using Spark Streaming.
• Experience in Hadoop stack
• Experience building data flow and process flow diagrams
• Extensive experience working with SQL & NoSQL databases (Mongo, Postgres)
• Proven ability to integrate and initiate IT strategy in area of expertise
• Expert level proficiency using versioning & debugging tools
• Expert-level ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately at all levels and audiences.
• Expert level understanding of the systems development life cycle.
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's degree required IT related field
• Scala experience
• Healthcare industry experience
• Experience using Agile methodology.

We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work remotely in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor VISAs.

General Physical Demands
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for our employees and communities.