Senior Application Engineer

HCA Healthcare•Brentwood, TN

About The Position

The Senior Application Engineer delivers strategic commitments for the Physician Services Group within ITG, designing, developing, testing, implementing, supporting, and maintaining enterprise software solutions. The role provides technical guidance throughout the software lifecycle and works with business customers, department heads, and project teams to develop and support internally developed applications. The engineer ensures applications are effectively designed, built, deployed, documented, and maintained against relational databases and other data sources to support end-user processes. The position combines software engineering, database design, information security, and infrastructure architecture. It uses .NET frameworks, web front-end technologies, infrastructure automation, and database platforms to reduce manual work and improve organizational efficiency, deployment quality and velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and data availability. The engineer also researches and implements technologies that address identified areas for improvement, develops subject-matter expertise in Physician Services applications, and builds relationships across the organization to support its goals.

Requirements

5–7 years of experience.
College graduate; undergraduate education required.
Experience with C# and .NET development.
Experience developing and maintaining applications using .NET Core.
Experience with MS SQL Server, including writing SQL and developing stored procedures, triggers, and functions.
Experience with database design, data modeling, and query performance tuning.
Experience in data-layer development, including RESTful API services as both a provider and a consumer.
Experience with UX/UI design, including Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, and AJAX.
Exposure to software development best practices, such as continuous integration, automated testing, design patterns, SOLID principles, and domain-driven design.
Exposure to batch and shell scripting.
Strong analytical and design skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to adapt to complex organizational change.
Ability to work with little supervision in a Lean environment.
Self-driven learner of technology and programming.
Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

Experience with LINQ and ORM technologies.
Experience with data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL); SSIS preferred.
Experience creating and hosting reporting solutions; SSRS preferred.
Experience creating thick-client applications using WPF or similar technologies, Windows services, and console applications.
Experience creating applications using ASP.NET WebForms.
Exposure to clinical applications (EMR/PPMS), such as eClinical Works, Epic, GE Centricity, or NextGen.
Ability to analyze data patterns and solve problems.
Experience with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7, CCDA, or FHIR.
Experience with public cloud development methodologies for Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure.
Continual learning and improvement of knowledge and expertise in health-industry data standards, applications, and tools.
Ability to assist colleagues with less experience.
Ability to create clear and concise documentation on design and operational topics.

Responsibilities

Build software, automation, and infrastructure services for Physician Services customers to reduce manual processes and improve organizational efficiency.
Design and implement solutions to improve deployment quality and velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and data availability.
Provide technical experience spanning software engineering, database design, information security, and infrastructure architecture.
Write code to automate manual operations using appropriate languages and tools.
Design and implement custom 24x7 monitoring and alerting solutions.
Create and maintain strong documentation.
Research, investigate, and implement new technologies.
Design, develop, test, implement, support, and maintain software products and applications.
Collaborate with business customers, department heads, and project teams, and participate in application design efforts.
Develop and maintain subject-matter knowledge for internally developed applications.
Ensure effective application design, build, deployment, documentation, and maintenance against relational databases and other applicable data sources.
Participate in discussions with business partners and clients to achieve consensus and organizational goals.
Provide technical guidance in application design sessions and assist more junior team members on technically complex projects.
Manage multiple assignments and work with little supervision in a Lean environment.
Define and communicate work assignments and completion criteria to team members, clarify expectations, monitor activities, and report status.
Maintain positive relationships with customers and department heads.

Benefits

Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine benefits.
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
Paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, based on years of service.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Flexible spending accounts.
Preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
Fertility and family-building benefits and adoption assistance.
Life insurance and supplemental health protection plans.
Auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.