Senior Application Developer

General Duties & Responsibilities

• Adheres to Organization’s Policy and Procedures 

• Acts as a role model within and outside the Company 

• Performs duties as workload necessitates 

• Maintains a positive and respectful attitude 

• Communicates regularly with supervisor about Department issues and keeps management advised of potential problems in all areas

• Demonstrates flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload 

• Consistently reports to work on time prepared to perform duties of position 

• Meets Department productivity standards 

• Participates in working groups, councils and committees.

• Ensures compliance with rules and regulations.

• Participates on committees, and special projects, and seeks additional responsibilities. 

• Accomplishes all tasks as appropriate. 

• Recommends new approaches to effect on-going continual improvements to policies, procedures, and documentation.  

• Maintains compliance with federal and state regulations. 

• Participates in administrative staff meetings and attends other meetings and seminars. 

• Performs other related duties as required and assigned 

• Consistently promotes the company’s core values.

• Completes required annual Compliance training.

Essential Functions of Position

Job Responsibilities

• Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance and direction to the development team, ensuring that projects align with business objectives.

• Mentorship: Mentor and support other developers, helping them grow their skills and navigate challenges.

• Coding and Review: Engage in hands-on coding and review the code submitted by team members and contractors to ensure quality and consistency.

• Project Management: Oversee project timelines, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery of milestones3.

• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a bridge between the technical team and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and understanding.

• Problem-Solving: Troubleshoot issues, debug applications, and run diagnostic tests to ensure smooth performance.

• Quality Assurance: Conduct and/or oversee quality assurance testing and ensure that software products meet the required standards.

• Ability to document current and future states as part of a multi-year roadmap and oversee technical project execution such that roadmap objectives are achieved

• Work with the business, business analysts, data architect and data services director to help establish the processing and staging of both leading and lagging KPIs both for passive reporting and driving proactive data-driven behavior change

• Collaborate with other teams for compliance with regulatory requirements and application & data security.  Collaborate and work under the guidance of IS Security, Cloud infrastructure engineering and data services to set up access controls, data encryption, anonymity/data masking and additional security measures as needed

• Collaborate and consult with operational teams to provide support

• Oversee or direct involvement in completing various upgrade and migration projects

• Work as a team with minimal oversight to complete complex projects

• Work with multiple vendors to implement and complete projects

• Communicate regularly with management concerning recommendations for improving systems, services, processes and support

Job Specifications:

Specialized Knowledge/Skills:

• Strong documentation skills and experience with creating architectural diagrams

• Strong development skills in multiple languages suitable to the business problem at hand (prefer .NET, C#, SQL, python), AI frameworks and architectures, database design, enabling compelling build vs. buy options for the business

• Strong skills in automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), cloud services, scripting, and collaboration to streamline development and operations processes.  Azure DevOps preferred.

• Prefer Azure-based development experience: Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

• Must possess strong written, oral and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate with outside vendors and internal staff, both at a technical and non-technical level

• Detail and deadline-oriented with the ability to prioritize and multi-task

• Flexible and responsive to changing business needs

• Must be able to take ownership, and drive towards goal completion and deadlines.  

• Minimum of an Associates Degree in MIS or Computer Science but will accept relevant experience to produce the needed outcomes

• 5-8+ years experience in solution design, development and implementations – will consider less with the right experience, aptitude, abilities

• Strong full stack programming skills with strong preference for .NET technologies

• Experience in AI-related application development strongly preferred

• Familiarity with various development tools and technologies

• Ability to create designs, implement and oversee the implementation of solutions that span data, applications, enterprise workflow, automation and application integration

• Knowledge of Database design, development, web application frameworks and DevOps

• Able to recommend, oversee and guide contractors to build solutions that not only meet the business requirements at hand, but also follow Gentiva standards and lead to the fulfilment of a multi-year strategic roadmap 

• Able to obtain business requirements and map them to documented standardized technical designs that achieve functional and non-functional requirements, properly selecting the correct solution components supporting both short term and long-term goals

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and monitoring of applications, ensuring rapid and reliable software delivery

• Work closely with development, QA functions, and operations teams to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and ensure seamless integration of new features

• Understand how to remediate and avoid technical debt, and how to architect solutions that are supportable, maintainable and move us forward toward multi-year roadmap objectives

• Experience in managing projects, setting timelines, and ensuring that goals are met

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address and resolve technical issues

• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to manage conflicts and make strategic decisions.