Join Fortune 7 CVS Health as a Sr. Manager of Application Development within the Shared Services and Advanced Technology Delivery (SSATD) organization. As an Applications Development Senior Manager, IBM ACE Developer, you will collaborate with both full-time employees and contracted cross-functional resources to execute IT project work throughout the various phases of the SDLC for a number of initiatives that will range in size and complexity. This role will also be responsible for application stability, to maintain the corporate goals of system up-time.

Under general direction, formulates and defines system scope and objectives. Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those procedures. Competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming activities. Regularly provides guidance and training to less-experienced programmer/analysts.

• Independently designs and/or codes and may lead others in the development of cost-effective application and program solutions.
• Leads or acts as chief technical contributor to translation of business requirements to technical specifications.
• Leads or acts as a technical contributor in the design of new applications or enhancements including integration of purchased solutions.
• Independently performs and assists other team members in providing ongoing system maintenance, research, problem resolution and on-call support tasks for existing systems.
• Is fully familiar and compliant with the efficient utilization of the prescribed methodologies and ensures compliance for the work of all aligned resources.
• Oversees or performs unit testing.
• May perform or assist with integration and system testing, according to detailed test plans to ensure high-quality systems.
• May assist business partners with User Acceptance Testing.
• With limited direction, supports the implementation of systems into production, including integration of purchased solutions.
• Responsible for Code Asset Management for an application or set of applications. Supports and promotes the reuse of assets across the organization.
• May lead or act as a subject matter expert for projects and/or service requests impacting an application or set of applications.
• Ability to support and lead others to develop API services utilizing onshore and offshore teams.
  Serves as team leader to direct technical activities, while also providing support for small and large highly complex projects that require increased skill across multiple technical environments and disciplines, that have system wide impact and that integrate across the organization.
• Receives some supervision and direction as regards prioritization of work but is competent to work independently and to offer direction and oversight to assigned team.
• Understand the business and functional requirements that apply to the applications supporting a sub-domain or domain as well as their relevant interfaces.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in application program development, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience with at least 6+ years in strong IIB/ACE Development
• 2+ years of experience with IBM Integration Bus (IIB) V10 / ACE11
• 2+ years of experience with IBM WebSphere Message Queue
• Strong understanding of design and development of RESTful APIs and Web Services

Preferred Qualifications

• IBM DB2 Database
  Java / J2EE
• Working experience in full CI/CD process (GIThub, Jenkins and Octopus)
• Working experience in SAFE/Agile Methodology/Framework

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience (2 yrs experience with 2 yr Associate degree and 4 yrs experience with HS/equivalent).