Widescope Consulting and Contracting, LLC is sourcing candidates to support Optum Serve’s performance of a United States (U.S.) Government contract and will require the successful applicant to access and/or process Non-Critical Sensitive information (Personally Identifiable Information [PII]/Protected Health Information [PHI]) from or contained in a U.S. Government IT system.
To fulfill the data and IT system access requirements for this position, the successful applicant will be required to successfully complete a Trustworthy Determination, which will require the successful applicant to: 1) be a U.S. citizen 2) pass a National Agency Check with law enforcement in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position, 3) pass a Credit Check in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position.
Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives.
To support this mission, OSIT has embarked on a multi-year cloud modernization journey, within which the AWS Cloud Software Engineer will play a key role: working to design, develop, test and monitor scalable and secure cloud-based applications and services using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Responsibilities:
- Engage in Service Area Agile ceremonies within a feature team and perform tasks within the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Develop as Subject Matter Expert in several technology and business domains supported by the Service Area
- Document and communicate translation of business requirements into technical specifications
- Advanced proficiency in configuration knowledge within the enterprise applications and complete configuration changes and implementations accurately based on the business requirements
- Collaborate and communicate with feature teams to maintain process documentation that adheres to quality standards
- Develop complex test cases, procedures and automated test scripts for feature implementation tasks anticipating customer needs and proactively testing solutions to meet functional requirements
- Write and maintain documentation which could include descriptions of program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and/or corrections
- May provide or participate technical assistance in occasional on-call rotation after hours support and work with the team to troubleshoot and investigate system defects
- Write advanced queries without guidance and develop a deeper understanding of more complex syntax
- Provide mentorship to junior team members
- Assist to research and identify patterns to improve overall quality
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems (MIS) or other related field with an emphasis in MIS
- Experience working in a health care environment
- 4+ years of experience working on projects using Amazon Web Services
- 4+ years’ experience working as a liaison between IT, internal and external business leads and end user community
- 4+ years’ experience working in Agile / Large Scale Scrum methodology
- Advanced understanding of database structures with the ability to learn the concepts of software setup, configuration and customization, as well as a basic understanding of relationships between database tables
- Advanced knowledge of .Net application or applicable application Configuration and SQL query skills
- Demonstrated successful implementation of small-scale technology projects
- Experience in analysis, design and release of software implementations
- High level of adaptability to changing work environments
