Job Description
Your Role
With pharmacy benefits being an essential component of the medical benefits, Pharmacy Care Reimagined is a critical Blue Shield of California initiative along with other Health Care Reimagined initiatives. The Pharmacy Care Reimagined goal is to enable every person with safe, equitable access to sustainably affordable prescription drugs. To enable our vision, we believe pharmacy benefits need to be simpler, more transparent, and more affordable. Staying with the status quo will not allow us to deliver on our mission.
Blue Shield of California is looking for a full-stack application developer to join our Software Engineering and Solution Delivery organization. The Application Developer, Consultant will report to the Digital Technologies Center of Excellence and support the Health Solutions IT Portfolio Pharmacy Reimagined virtual PBA model as described below.
To accelerate transformational change, BSC desires to enable a "virtual PBA model" which involves the best-in-class Service Providers in five key functional areas: A. Claims processing and benefit administration, B. Retail network contracting and management, C. Home delivery pharmacy services, D. Specialty pharmacy services and E. Pharmaceutical contracting and administration. These Service Providers will integrate with BSC's information systems to provide seamless and coordinated pharmacy benefits to close to 2.4 million pharmacy members in Commercial and Medicare lines of business.
The candidate will be the subject matter expert for the Pharmacy business service. This individual will build/develop integrations for various platforms and serve as the expert developer responsible for assuring real-time solutions built within the portfolio are highly secure and robust. This includes effective communication & influence of IT, business, and vendor partners to provide solutions that optimize cost, quality, security, and fit for purpose.
Your Work
In this role, you will:

• Design and develop quality user interfaces, and application programs using technical specifications and design documents.
• Improve the reliability and utilization of systems and applications
• Monitor software configuration changes to anticipate and address the impact of data reliability and customer satisfaction issues
• Coordinate sustaining support for application platforms, integrations and/or business processes
• As a technical resource responsible for establishing trusted relationships with business partners, internal IT organizations, other IT portfolio leaders, and Vendor partners
• Effectively communicate approach, value, risk, alternatives, and status of goal progress with executive & senior management, business sponsors, and product managers
• Be experienced with relevant software development tools, industry protocols, troubleshooting & support procedures, monitoring & quality controls, and communication/documentation software
• Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment
• Recommend improvements to the SDLC and other departmental processes
• Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends

Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience, preferably in hands-on design, coding, integration, and deployment experience in Cloud-based applications
• Requires experience building and supporting enterprise applications from development to maintenance
• Requires experience designing and building APIs using C# or Java
• Requires strong technical acumen & deep working knowledge of Agile Methods, Service Architecture, and enterprise Cloud Integration
• Requires strong ability to influence, collaborate and build relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams
• Desired experience coding with SQL/PL-SQL and exposure to Snowflake on Azure
• Desired exposure to healthcare standards in the clinical data domain and FHIR interoperability basics
• Desired experience setting up components in Microsoft Azure, working knowledge of Epic software, and virtualization platform such as Citrix

Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is: $ 118800.00 to $ 178200.00 for California.
Note:
Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.
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About the Team
Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.
Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of California's top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities - join us!
Our Values:

• Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human . We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
• Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Our Workplace Model:
Blue Shield of California is dedicated to making work-life balance a reality. Whether you prefer to work in an office or from home, we understand flexibility is more important than ever. That's why Blue Shield is a hybrid company, offering you the opportunity to decide where you can do your best and most meaningful work.
Two ways of working: Hybrid (our default) and office

• Hybrid - In a business unit approved office a few times per year to 3 days per week, on average

• Office - In a business unit approved office 4 days a week, on average. If the role you're applying for is deemed an "Essential Role," the company has determined that the role can only be performed in a Blue Shield office or in the field and would require your to meet the office worker classification.

Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Due to the current public health emergency in California, Blue Shield employees are almost all working remotely. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.