Job ID: JP00044164

Anticipated Start Date: 01/08/2024

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. Previously known as Anthem, Inc., we have evolved into a company focused on whole health and updated our name to better reflect the direction the company is heading.

We are looking for contract workers (via BCforward) who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve. You will thrive in a complex and collaborative environment where you take action and ownership to solve problems and lead change. Do you want to be part of a larger purpose and an evolving, high-performance culture that empowers you to make an impact?

Responsible for the delivery of end to end system development and maintenance on complex technology systems within assigned client group, business unit or corporate department.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Development on medium to large complex customer technology platforms or architectures.
• Maintains active relationships with internal and/or external stakeholder to develop business requirements.
• Analyzes and classifies complex change request and identifies and documents possible system code enhancements.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends, our products and infrastructure.
• Collaborates with engineers and graphic designers, analyzes and classifies complex change request and reviews and evaluates possible enhancements.
• Works with development team to develop and define application scope and objectives and prepare functional and/or technical specifications.
• Analyzes and evaluates detailed business and technical requirements.
• Understands the product and analytics and drive requirements that take into account stakeholders needs.
• Identifies problems/risks.
• Codes and maintains complex components of information systems.
• Mentors others on coding standards and performs code reviews.
• Reviews test cases and advises QA on adjacent code/regression impact.
• Develops and performs system testing and fixes defects identified during testing and re-executes unit tests to validate results.
• Aids in integrating activities with other IT departments for successful implementation and support of project efforts.
• Provides on call support and monitors the system and identifies system deficiencies.
• Make recommendations and/or drive technical remediation of cloud database issues and troubleshooting.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level cloud database metric to senior leadership and technical teams.
• Manage and maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure, including RDS PostgreSQL databases.
• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure database solutions in AWS.
• Work closely with developers and other stakeholders to optimize database performance and ensure data integrity.
• Develop and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies for our databases.
• Monitor and troubleshoot database issues, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Automate database administration tasks using scripting and/or configuration management tools.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest cloud and database technologies and provide recommendations for improving our infrastructure.

Requirements:

• Requires BA/BS degree or technical institute training and 3 years experience on one platform, multi database, multi language, or multi business application, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• Incumbent should also have the ability to mentor others, lead small projects, and provide troubleshooting support.
• Provide architectural guidance, assistance, support, and technical leadership with public cloud databases.
• Demonstrate maturity and understanding of cloud database provisioning in one or more public cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP) offerings, in particular AWS.
• Hands-on knowledge with one or more of the following: MongoDB, DocumentDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.
• Database migration using AWS services: VPC/SG, EC2, S3, Autoscaling, CloudFormation, Snowflake, RDS, Aurora, AWS DMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Docker, Lambda etc.
• Experience in defining, developing, and implementing automated processes for cloud databases (monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, tagging, etc.).
• Work closely with development teams, cloud security & compliance, and infrastructure teams, etc. to execute on auto scaling and right sizing cloud database cost saving initiatives.
• Subject Matter Expert in migrating on-prem databases to cloud based infrastructure databases.

Job Type: Contract with potential to hire.

Additional Details:

• Monday - Friday 8-5 and/or 9-6pm EST.
• Candidate must live in Atlanta area (within 50 miles).
• Candidates must agree to work hybrid schedule.
• Work location: 740 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward’s 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

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