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And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.\nPremera is committed to being a workplace where people feel empowered to grow, innovate, and lead with purpose. By investing in our employees and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous development, we’re able to better serve our customers. It’s this commitment that has earned us recognition as one of the best companies to work for. Learn more about our recent awards and recognitions as a greatest workplace.\nLearn how Premera supports our members, customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: https://healthsource.premera.com/.\nThe Software Development Engineer IV performs a pivotal role in ensuring the success of enterprise software development projects by providing technical leadership, team guidance, and oversight to our development teams. This role requires a combination of technical expertise (analyze, design, code, test & debug), communication skills, leadership abilities, and the capability to monitor project outcomes and make data-driven decisions to enhance the delivery of software. Ensures that solutions are consistent with organization’s objectives. Demonstrating specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Focuses on highly complex enterprise solution delivery.\nEnsures that solutions are consistent with organization’s objectives. Demonstrates specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Generally focused on highly complex enterprise solutions.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDefine, design and implement feature development with focus on technical direction, quality, usability and performance leveraging data to make decisions.\nPartner with business and IT leaders to identify and understand multi-faceted problems or improvement opportunities.\nPartner with the development teams, business partners, architecture, and customers to understand project requirements, provide technical excellence and oversight, and resolve technical challenges guaranteeing code quality.\nParticipate in live site operations with emphasis on timely response, delivery and satisfaction for customers.\nServe as the primary engineering and strategic implementation partners, ensuring clear, effective , and timely communication.\nOversee the review process of code, ensuring compliance with best practices, Premera standards, and architectural guidelines. Responsible for vendor oversight and code sign-off ensuring an effective relationship and high-quality outcomes of vendor work.\nResponsible for monitoring key performance indicators and ensuring successful project outcomes..\nAnalyze project data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern, and make data-driven recommendations to enhance the delivery of software. \nTrain and enforce governance processes to ensure compliance with company standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements.\nOversee engineering excellence and continuous automation. This includes testing associated with cross-functional project team and in-team efforts.\nSign off appropriate technical or architectural documentation and notifications for changes to production systems or fixes to production problems are completed and that SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) artifacts were created.\nAct as technical and business leader sharing knowledge, and expertise with others inside team as well as with other customers. Proactively contribute to knowledge sharing across Premera developer community.\nStay current in best practices, technology trends and the organization’s business while mentoring and sharing knowledge gained with others. Maintain expertise in one or more technical areas. Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree in computer science or information systems\nEight (8) years of software development experience, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and skills to utilize one or more programming languages\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with cloud solutions.\nExperience in healthcare industry or a highly regulated environment.\nTechnical knowledge and experience with specific technical tools used at Premera (i.e. Facets) or required for open position.\nPrevious experience in an agile environment.\nExposure to API and service-based technologies.\nExperience using and creating automated test tools.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities\nDemonstrated expertise in development of systems, applications and tools that solve business problems and improve effectiveness of business solutions.\nDeep technical knowledge in at least one area/technology and demonstrated deep hands-on expertise in multiple disparate technologies. Demonstrated ability to think in terms of architecture. Demonstrated experience building multiple, high performance, stable and scalable solutions that have been deployed in enterprise setting.\nStrong team player with ability to influence and bring together differing points of view.\nAbility to continually evolve technical knowledge and skills. Experience providing advice and mentoring to less experienced staff.\nExperience playing a leading role in implementation and deployment of successful enterprise-level system.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and good presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.\nDemonstrates resilience and skill to navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. Able to provide effective feedback to others.\nSkill applying creativity to work.\nDemonstrate good judgment and decision making including when making appropriate technical trade-offs between short- and long-term business needs.\nPremera total rewards\nOur comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including:\nMedical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.\n\nVoluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.\n\nLife and disability insurance.\n\nRetirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.\n\nWellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.\n\nGenerous paid time off to reenergize.\n\nLooking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.\n\nEmployee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.\n\nFor our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.\nCommuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.\n\nFree convenient on-site parking.\n\nSubsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.\n\nParticipate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.\n\nOur complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.\n\nNeed a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.\n\nEqual employment opportunity/affirmativeaction:\nPremera is an equal opportunity/affirmativeaction employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.\nIf you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at  or via phone at 425-918-4785.\nThe pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.\nThe salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.\n National Plus Salary Range:\n$135,600.00 - $230,500.00*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.\nWe’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. 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