Developer Advisor - Mainframe - PS1672

Your innovation. Our impact. At Anthem, Inc., it’s a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we’re creating greater access to care for our members, greater health for our communities, and greater experiences for our customers. Innovation is a top priority. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment that brings together industry leaders and technology experts, so together we can drive the future of health care.

This is an exceptional opportunity to create solutions and programs that can truly make a difference at one of America’s leading health benefits companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.

Responsible for programming or overseeing programming on specific application subsets of the company’s application portfolio, participating in all phases of the development ,maintenance life cycle, and Production Support typically for an assigned business unit, client program, or corporate department and utilizing various customer technology platforms.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary. Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
Performs technical design reviews and code reviews. Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
Assesses current status and supports data information planning.
Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
Maintains technical development environment.
Mentors others and may lead multiple or small to medium sized projects.
Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues.
Supports vendor evaluation.
Ensure availability and stability of assigned platforms and applications
Support all Enterprise Metrics and Reporting deliverables including Problem Management Tasks in order to manage continuous improvement of our application stability.
Continuously initiate Automation/Efficiency Process Improvements and ways to eliminate recurring issues.
Support Infrastructure Upgrades and smooth transition across environments for overall system improvement and stability.
Handle various Audit Assessments, review requests and provide audit responses with required information in a timely manner.
Manage inventory updates for application servers and contacts.
Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises across platforms and ensure Business Continuity is maintained at all times.
Interface with the Network Operations Center (NOC), Incident Management, Infrastructure and Applications support teams to facilitate outage resolution and root cause analysis.

Requires BA/BS degree in related field or technical institute training; 5 or more years related experience; multi platform experience; expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. Incumbent should also have the ability to mentor others, lead multiple small projects and provide troubleshooting support. Multi dimensional required. Multi database and/or multi language preferred.

Hands-on experience in mainframe technologies (z/os,COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, Control-M, SAR, ChangeMan, Endevor, RPC, MQ Series, IMS Connect) is required.
Production Support Experience is an asset.
Experience / knowledge of healthcare systems and comprehensive understanding of large healthcare payer overall structure, processes, functions including Claims, Membership and Provider processing is an asset.

WGS, ACES Anthem System Knowledge is an asset.
Experience in both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies is an asset.
Experience in zLinux, Pega, Java /Oracle DB is an asset.
Experience using IBM Rational tools for defect management and tools like Jira, Service NOW, Confluence, MS SharePoint etc. is an asset.

Anthem, Inc. is ranked as one of America’s Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine and is a 2017 DiversityInc magazine Top 50 Company for Diversity. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at antheminc.com/careers. EOE. M/F/Disability/Veteran.