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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

IT Applications Engineer 4 - Web Server Service and Integrations

System AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGreensboro, NC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum three years of experience working on projects involving solution implementation using development life cycles such as the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Minimum one year in a technical leadership role, with or without direct reports.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems (CIS), or a related field, and a minimum of six years of experience in software development or a related field; equivalent additional work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor network and web server activity for security breaches using intrusion detection techniques, and perform file system management.
  • Install and manage Epic application deployment platforms for production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs.
  • Install and maintain administrative and monitoring tools to support availability and performance of the Epic system.
  • Assist with configuration and troubleshooting of integrated third-party software and peripherals.
  • Apply platform and Epic upgrades and updates to production and non-production web server components.
  • Respond to emergency and after-hours issues; write and maintain scripts to improve system management tasks.
  • Maintain and test business continuity processes, and participate in change control for planned application and technical activities.
  • Understand performance metrics, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues; collaborate with technical teams and the Epic vendor to support proactive operations and best practices.
  • Complete work assignments and support business-specific projects by applying subject-area expertise, supporting work plans and priorities, ensuring procedures are followed, coordinating and assigning resources, collaborating on business decisions, solving complex problems, escalating high-priority issues or risks, and identifying improvement opportunities.
  • Promote learning by providing information, resources, advice, and expertise; build cross-functional stakeholder relationships; influence others through technical explanations and examples; respond to performance feedback; provide feedback to others and managers; create and execute development plans; support team collaboration; and adapt to change and feedback.
  • Use DevOps and Waterfall and Agile practices to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on-premise and cloud-based solutions.
  • Recommend technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
  • Translate business requirements and functional specifications into program designs, code modules, application systems, and software solutions in partnership with business analysts and team members.
  • Identify interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions needed to support technical solutions, incorporating architectural designs.
  • Lead systems incident support and troubleshooting for complex and non-complex issues.
  • Support component integration testing (CIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) by providing triage, attending test-team meetings, keeping quality control (QC) current, performing fixes and unit testing, advising testing teams on test coverage, and supporting documentation.
  • Build and maintain relationships with internal customers and third-party vendors to align and support project stakeholders.
  • Review and validate technical specifications and documentation; revise technical specifications and documentation as needed.
  • Collaborate with architects and software consultants to convert functional specifications into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
  • Provide implementation and post-implementation triage and support by programming or configuring enhancements to new or packaged business systems and applications.
  • Develop and execute unit tests to identify application errors and verify that solutions meet functional specifications.
  • Write technical specifications and documentation.
  • Ensure software solutions reflect industry best practices, strategies, and architectures; partner with IT teams and vendors to ensure code follows architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications.
  • Lead, mentor, and train technical resources in software application development.
  • Develop, configure, or modify basic to moderately complex integrated business or enterprise application solutions by designing and coding component-based applications using programming languages.
  • Participate in and coach others through software development lifecycle phases, applying and sharing company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
  • Assist with project estimation throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Maintain specialist knowledge of database concepts, object and data modeling techniques and design principles, and database architectures, software, and facilities; analyze data requirements to establish, modify, or maintain object and data models; evaluate potential solutions and demonstrate, install, and commission selected products.
  • Ensure accessibility, retrievability, and security of assigned information; advise on information transformation; maintain and implement information-handling procedures; enable information availability, integrity, and searchability through formal data structures and protection measures; and manipulate information-service data to meet local or specific needs.

Desired Qualifications

  • One year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership, such as Director level and above.
  • Three years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high-level design for complex solutions.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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