Application Developer Senior

Geisinger; Danville (PA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Geisinger seeks an experienced Application Developer Senior to join the Intelligent Automation Hub. You will design, develop, test, and deploy automation solutions using UiPath and related tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet service line goals.

You will implement scalable automation designs, integrate via APIs and databases, and contribute to architecture discussions. Mentoring and documentation are key facets of this role within a healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with UiPath.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting automations.
• Automation design concepts including credential management, queues, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience with Azure DevOps/Jira and Git.
• Ability to document automation solutions with PDDs, SDDs, and runbooks.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Mentoring experience and ability to contribute to development standards.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, tests, documents, deploys, monitors, and maintains automation solutions using UiPath and other approved automation tools.
• Reviews business requirements and creates scalable automation designs.
• Builds production-ready automations with REFramework, credential management, queues, logging, and orchestration.
• Develops integrations using APIs, databases, files, and UI automation.
• Provides code reviews, debugging, testing instructions, and post-live support.
• Monitors performance, analyzes failures, and implements improvements.
• Collaborates with team and stakeholders to ensure alignment with business needs.
• Contributes to coding and documentation standards and automation governance.

Skills

Communication

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

UiPath

Azure DevOps

Jira

Git

SQL

APIs

C#

Python

JavaScript

Job description

Job Summary

This position sits within the Geisinger Steele Institute for Health Innovation's Intelligent Automation Hub (IAH). The Steele Institute for Health Innovation applies a human centered design approach and deploying resources from cross-functional teams to achieve an innovative solution alongside the service lines’ strategic goals. The IAH is a business division comprised of a cross-functional team to deliver automated solutions (including robotic process automation) for processes and tasks where efficiency can be approved. The Application Developer Senior reviews, analyzes, modifies, creates, debugs, designs, and tests applications using modern development methodologies and tools. Provides key insight in design and application architecture discussions. A key player on a multidisciplinary team and will engage in all aspects of the application development life cycle as needed for each project to be successful.

Job Duties

• Designs, develops, tests, documents, deploys, monitors, and maintains automation solutions using UiPath and other approved automation tools.
• Reviews and analyzes business requirements, process documentation, and technical needs to create scalable automation designs.
• Builds production-ready automations using appropriate frameworks and standards, including REFramework where applicable, credential management, queues, logging, exception handling, orchestration, and scheduling.
• Develops integrations using APIs, databases, files, and user interface automation where appropriate.
• Provides code review, peer review, debugging, testing instructions, technical documentation, go-live planning, deployment support, hypercare, and post-live support.
• Monitors automation performance, investigates failures, performs root cause analysis, reduces downtime, and implements improvements.
• Collaborates with team members and stakeholders to resolve issues, improve system performance, ensure code quality, and align automation solutions with business needs.
• Contributes to coding standards, documentation standards, version control practices, testing practices, deployment procedures, and automation governance.
• Provides training, mentoring, and technical support to developers and team members.
• Assists in the development and documentation of technical approaches, solution design documentation, support documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Ensures automation solutions comply with organizational policies, healthcare regulations, privacy expectations, and data security standards.
• Maintains knowledge of emerging automation technologies and industry trends, including APIs, OCR, machine learning, document understanding, analytics, and intelligent automation platforms.

Work is typically performed in an office or remote environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

• Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and degree obtained (Associate’s Degree = 2 years; Bachelor’s Degree = 4 years; Master’s Degree = 6 years).

Position Details

Additional Requirements

• Hands-on experience with UiPath
• Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production applications or automations.
• Experience with automation design concepts such as credential management, queues, logging, exception handling, scheduling/orchestration, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience with Azure Devops/Jira, Git, etc
• Ability to clearly articulate and implement documentation practices for automation solutions and code, with hands-on experience creating and maintaining standard RPA artifacts such as Process Design Documents (PDDs), Solution Design Documents (SDDs), and technical/runbook documentation
• Strong technical documentation, troubleshooting, debugging, analytical thinking, and communication skills.
• Have mentoring experience/ability to mentor others and contribute to development standards and quality practices.
• Should have code/peer review experience
• Experience with SQL, databases, and APIs
• Proficiency with one or more programming or scripting languages such as C#, Python, JavaScript, VB.NET, or similar

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with UiPath Document Understanding, OCR, intelligent document processing, machine learning-assisted extraction, or validation workflows.
• Agentic workflows, building conversational agents, etc
• Experience in other automation platforms such as Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere
• Healthcare operations, revenue cycle, patient access, claims, denials, billing, prior authorization, scheduling, or related workflow experience.
• Experience working in Epic
• Experience with Insights Dashboards, Power BI, operational reporting, monitoring dashboards, or automation analytics

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 10 years-Relevant experience* (Required)

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES

Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one.

• vision
• dental
• domestic partners

Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all.

We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.