Development Manager

Role Description

Acentra Health is looking for a Development Manager to join our growing team.

The role of the Development Manager is to manage day-to-day supervision of assigned Developers, overseeing the delivery of application support and maintenance for assigned project/program or the subsystem(s)/COTS products across project(s), and provide leadership and direction to the team members across all aspects of delivery.

• Collaborate with delivery development managers to provide day-to-day management and supervision of team members.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define and assess the development process across multiple projects, applications, and programs.
• Understand team capabilities, provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring to ensure corporate goals are met.
• Work with program and delivery teams on client-facing developer allocations.
• Apply communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide the team on issues related to the design, development, security, and deployment of solutions and software systems.
• Manage multiple internal initiatives aimed at continually improving the development organization, its cross-training and onboarding programs, and keeping it modern and in tip-top shape.
• Measure and enforce the use of coding standards and best practices.
• Ensure a strong customer service focus across the application and program development function.
• Responsible for facilitating administrative employee functions such as performance management, evaluations, reviews, etc.
• Performs technical oversight and assessment of application and program development, development processes and people to ensure both project and corporate goals are met.
• Supports proposal development by reviewing technical solution and pricing estimates.
• Manages the development projects, new initiatives, and provides quality control on assigned project.
• Guides team on issues related to design, development and deployment of solutions and software systems, applying expertise and knowledge of development field.
• Enforces use of coding standards and best practices.
• Provides technical solutions to development team.
• Read, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security Rules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years of software development leadership, as related to job responsibilities.
• 3+ years of people management and development leadership experience at large complex organizations (Matrix experience a plus).
• Be a U.S. Citizen, currently reside in the United States or its territories and have lived in the United States or its territories for at least three of the past five years.

Requirements

• Demonstrated working experience collaborating with cross-functional teams drawing consensus and documenting new standards and processes.
• Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and blended development methodologies experience.
• Strong working experience with Jira.
• Experience in the healthcare industry.
• Knowledge/past working experience of OOP concepts, including at least 1 OOP language (Java preferred).
• Managing application development on Java Spring framework.
• Various front-end technologies (HTML5, JQuery JavaScript, etc.).
• Relational & Non-relational databases.
• Good understanding of COTS products (Oracle, Cognos, Oracle E-Business Suite, etc.).
• Power BI preferred, or similar metrics reporting tool.
• Service-oriented or microservices architecture is strongly preferred.
• Expert level experience in Java technologies, API’s and integrations.
• Understanding of Healthcare domain with experience in MMIS system is added preference.
• Good experience configuring application code on-premise and cloud infrastructure (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud, IBM cloud).

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement savings.
• Corporate wellness.
• Educational assistance.
• Corporate discounts.
• And more.