Senior Manager, Application Development Engineering - Provider Data

Centene Corporation; North Carolina; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K

Stock purchase plans

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off + holidays

Flexible remote/hybrid/onsite work

Job summary

Centene Corporation seeks an experienced leader to manage a team delivering complex enterprise software solutions for the healthcare domain. The role requires coordinating design, development, testing, and deployment across cross-functional partners and vendors.

You will guide scope, schedule, and budgets, drive agile practices, and mentor developers while ensuring security and policy compliance. A remote US-based position with quarterly travel is involved, with competitive benefits and growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of related experience with prior management.
• Experience with Application Development and Applications Architecture; DevOps best practices.
• Knowledge of Agile Software Development.
• Hands-on with databases and data governance; knowledge of graph databases.
• Healthcare payer/provider operations or provider data management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversees a team of Senior Application Development Engineers on large-scale complex applications development projects.
• Leads efforts around project scope, schedule, and budget with close monitoring and communication of progress and commitments.
• Makes decisions based on reported application progress and outcomes.
• Establishes training and career development planning for Application Developers.
• Oversees 3rd party development teams and vendors, ensuring adherence to standards, policies, and performance.
• Defines processes to identify and evaluate risks and participates in mitigation and control activities.
• Communicates with Application and Infrastructure Management during service transition.
• Partners with Security and SRE teams to ensure security and change management policies are followed.
• Leads design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.
• Manages hiring and training of staff, conducts performance/salary reviews, and provides leadership and coaching to Developers.
• Establishes operational objectives and delegates tasks to ensure stable operation of application development activities.
• Provides expert knowledge to strengthen staff capabilities and understand IT implications.
• Holds teams accountable to meet functional, quality, and timeline objectives.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Skills

Team leadership

Software development

Agile methods

Databases & data governance

Healthcare data domain

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Graph databases

DevOps

Job description

Manages the team members accountable for designing, developing, and implementing complex enterprise software solutions. Collaborates closely with technical and non-technical roles such as data modelers, architects, business analysts, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide design, technical analysis, development/configuration, testing, implementation, and support expertise representing the interest of the business across the enterprise. This is a remote position within the United States requiring quarterly business travel. Sponsorship and future sponsorship are not available for this opportunity, including employment-based visa types H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, or CPT.

• Oversees a team consisting of Senior Application Development Engineers responsible with large-scale complex Application Development projects / programs
• Accountable for leading efforts around project scope, schedule, and budget ensuring commitments and progress are monitored closely and communicated clearly.
• Makes decisions based on reported application progress and outcomes
• Establishes training and career development planning to Application Developers
• Oversees the work of 3rd party Development teams, holds 3rd party vendors accountable to our standards, policies, and performance expectations.
• Defines processes to identify and evaluate risks and participates in mitigation and control activities
• Expertly communicates with Application and Infrastructure Management operational groups during service transition
• Partners with Security and SRE teams, makes sure all security and change management policies are followed.
• Leads the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments
• Manages the hiring and training of new and existing staff, conduct performance / salary reviews, and provide leadership, technical guidance and coaching to Developers executing all aspects of applications development
• Establishes operational objectives and delegates tasks to team Developers to help ensure the stable operation of application development activities
• Provides expert knowledge to develop staff capabilities to strengthen understanding of application development industry, business issues and best practices; evaluate implications to IT
• Holds teams accountable to meet functional, quality, and time line objectives.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Requires a Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of related experience, including prior management experience

• Experience with Application Development; Applications Architecture, DevOps industry best practices
• Knowledge of Agile Software Development
• Hands-on, technical background surrounding databases and data governance, ideally including knowledge of graph model databases
• Healthcare payer, provider operations, or provider data management experience preferred

Collaboration and team building skills

You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.

• competitive pay
• health insurance
• 401K
• stock purchase plans
• tuition reimbursement
• paid time off plus holidays
• flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules

Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.