Service Coordinator Supporting Portal Applications (Java)
Position Responsibilities:
- Designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting web portal applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value
- Lead development team to achieve key business objectives
- Collaborate with the team on application architecture design and decision-making
- Develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business
- Provide alternate design solutions along with project estimates
- Design and implement application enhancements in collaboration with different teams
- Troubleshoot production support issues post release deployment and come up with solutions. Ability to solve complex production issues
- Predicts emerging customer needs and develops innovative solutions to meet them
- Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business
- Influences senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches
- Will be expected to function as a mentor for junior developers, providing assistance where needed
- Will be expected to handle smaller projects completely on their own, including interactions with other teams and 3rd parties for design and architecture
- Involvement with senior management in terms of supplying input for key design and architecture decisions, as well as work estimation and resource planning
UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise. Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree OR High School Diploma/GED + 5 years of equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in IT and enterprise applications with a thorough understanding of SDLC processes
- 3+ years of experience working with Web Services/Portal Applications with a combination of using the following technologies: JBOSS, Apache, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JSTL, HTML, JavaScript. Linux, UNIX
- 3+ years of relational database experience; MS SQL 2005/2008 highly preferred
- Understanding of ITIL processes (Incident management, Problem Management, and Customer Support Processes)
- 1+ years of experience managing technical resources with the ability to work effectively with multiple levels of technical and business management
Assets:
- Experience with IIS, MS SQL Server SSIS, Perl, Empirix OneSight, Gomez/FarSight a plus
- Experience working effectively with offshore resources
- Experience leading technical meetings for high profile issues, as well as providing technical direction towards resolving issues
- Experience performing troubleshooting in a development or production support role
- Healthcare/TPA experience is a plus
- Experience performing general management functions in the absence of area manager
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.