Application Developer, Consultant

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

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About The Position

Your Role The IT Health Solutions Portfolio team delivers and supports new solutions and enhancements to multiple systems and applications. The Full Stack Engineer will report to the Senior Manager. In this role, you will be deeply involved in the design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality software solutions. Your role will focus on integrating security and automation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with an emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code and building infrastructure that supports CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud-native delivery. You'll implement and enforce DevSecOps best practices tailored for Azure, contribute to infrastructure as code, and work closely with developers, testers, and cloud engineers to ensure code is secure, scalable, and production-ready from day one. This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about code quality, automation, and secure cloud development. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Requires a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in enterprise application support and cloud-based solution delivery.
• Requires hands-on experience in modern front-end frameworks such as React and/or Vue JavaScript, along with CSS responsive design practices.
• Requires proficiency in Unix command-line operations, including directory navigation, file manipulation, and shell scripting, along with utilities like awk, sed, and Perl.
• Requires hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform to automate cloud deployments.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using tools such as PowerShell, ANT, Jython, experience in automating builds, deployments, and configurations required.
• Strong understanding of scalable architecture patterns (Clean Architecture, domain/feature-based organization).
• Demonstrated experience integrating security across the SDLC (requirements, design, implementation, testing, release, and operations)
• Experience with leading teams, as well as the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders and cross functional teams
• Proven hands-on experience in the design, coding, integration, and deployment of applications using .NET (2.0+), Java and Python.
• Familiarity with networking and security protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, XML, IIS, authentication protocols, SSH, and SFTP required.
• Working knowledge of deploying and managing applications using containerization (Docker) in cloud environments like Azure, AWS, or GCP required.
• Strong process orientation with the ability to follow and improve procedures for critical maintenance and operational tasks.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop user interfaces and application programs using technical specifications and design documents, with a focus on cloud-native solutions and modern frameworks.
• Develop the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
• Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features.
• Recommend and implement improvements to departmental processes to enhance agility and efficiency.
• Enhance the reliability, scalability, and utilization of systems and applications through continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Monitor and manage software configuration changes to anticipate and address data reliability and customer satisfaction issues, leveraging cloud monitoring tools and practices.
• Coordinate sustaining support for multiple application platforms or business processes, ensuring seamless integration and operation in a cloud environment.
• Be self-directed, work with limited management direction, and exercise considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.
• Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level