Premera Blue Cross

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Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.

To better serve our customers, we’re creating a culture that promotes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are committed to creating an environment where employees can do their best work and where best-in-class talent comes, stays, and thrives! As a result of these efforts we are proud to share that Forbes ranked Premera among America’s 2023 Best Midsize Employers (https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-midsize-employers/?sh=58210f5e210f) and America's 2023 Best Employers By State (https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-by-state/?sh=21c7c3d1983b) .

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As a Software Development Engineer II on the DataHub team, you will work in an agile team environment to focus on improving automation, scalability, service quality, data collection, and system health visibility into production environments running on a hybrid cloud. In this position on the DataHub team, you will support software development teams to deliver code faster and more efficiently. You’ll use your DevOps experience to provide solutions to a wide range of complex problems and act as an internal resource for your specific Capability Product Group. Your work will continue to impact and modernize Premera’s IT footprint using the cloud and containers.

DataHub is a key component of Premera’s Data platform that enables access and sharing of information between our business applications and partners. DataHub moves away from point-to-point integration to a publish-and-subscribe mechanism. The datahub ensures high quality, secure, low latency data integration between applications and services.

What you’ll do:

• Build, run, and optimize critical services in a complex heterogeneous hybrid cloud environment

• Learn and enhance existing tools, develop new tools at scale that reduce manual intervention, enhance prevention, detection, and mitigation of service impacts

• Provide design and technical consulting expertise for small to medium sized projects

• Work closely with the security team to ensure the safety and security of deployment processes

• Influence and collaborate across engineering to bring best practices, system architectures, standards, and methods for a complex heterogeneous environment

• Remain current on new technologies, methods and procedures including, but not limited to, coding practices such as Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment

• Participate in 'on-call' rotation duties

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems, or equivalent experience (Required)

• 1+ years of software development experience and skills to utilize one or more programming languages (Required)

• 3-5 years of software development experience preferred.

• Application development experience utilizing Python, Databricks, Kafka, SQL, Azure cloud technologies, CI/CD, No-SQL Mongo-Atlas

• Experience with cloud solutions

• Customer-focused with demonstrated experience in effective root cause analysis and problems resolution for High Availability (HA) systems

What we offer

• Medical, vision and dental coverage

• Life and disability insurance

• Retirement programs (401K employer match and pension plan)

• Wellness incentives, onsite services, a discount program and more

• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees

• Generous Paid Time Off to reenergize

• Free parking

Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785.

Premera is hiring in the following states, with some limitations based on role or city: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin .

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.

National Salary Range:

$70,100.00 - $119,200.00

National Plus Salary Range:

$79,900.00 - $135,800.00

*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska .

At Premera, we make healthcare work better. By focusing on improving our customers’ experience purposefully and serving their needs passionately, we make the process easier, less costly, and more positive. Through empathy and advocacy, we change lives.

As the leading health plan in the Pacific Northwest, we provide comprehensive health benefits and services to more than 2 million customers, from individuals to Fortune 100 companies. Our services include innovative programs focused on health management, wellness, prevention, and patient safety. We deliver these programs through health, life, vision, dental, disability, and other related products and services.

Premera Blue Cross is headquartered in Mountlake Terrace, WA, with operations in Spokane and Anchorage. The company has operated in Washington since 1933 and in Alaska since 1952. With more than 80 years of experience in the region, we deliver innovation, choice, and expertise.