Senior Applications Developer- Horsham, PA - Full-time / Part-time

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The candidate will work as part of a dedicated IT operations support team with some development responsibilities. This team supports critical business and financial data warehousing applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

• The candidate will be responsible for operational support including, but not limited to troubleshooting and driving to resolution any software problems and issues


• In addition, as part of the team's innovation goals, the candidate will develop, utilize and maintain system/process documentation and reports


• The candidate must have strong verbal and written communication skills, and effectively present technical issues to a non-technical audience. The person must be customer-focused with the ability to prioritize tasks in a dynamic environment


• The candidate will be working in an IT operations team utilizing the service management and service delivery principles defined by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) organization


• Key service management activities include:
  
  
  
  • Incident Management
  
  
  • Problem Management
  
  
  • Change Management
  
  
  • Release Management
  
  
  • Configuration Management


• Key service delivery activities include:
  
  
  
  • Proactively reviewing the state/status of the ADW/CDW databases
  
  
  • Ensure the services meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  
  
  • Establish relationships with key stakeholders


• The candidate will be responsible to follow and define Operations IT Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).


• They will also need to embrace our United Cultural values of; Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation and Performance.

 Availability during non-business hours will be required to support month end processing, software release activities and to resolve high priority production incidents.

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience


• The candidate must have strong analytic and problem solving skills


• The systems the candidate will support utilize the follows technologies:
  
  
  
  • ORACLE 10G and 12C
  
  
  • Unix Shell Scripting
  
  
  • Linux Operational support
  
  
  • Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS)
  
  
  • Subversion (SVN) version control


• 3+ years of experience with a UNIX/Linux operating system


• 3+ years of experience with shell scripting 


• 3+ years of Oracle SQL experience


• Proficiency with PL/SQL packages and functions

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of working with Claims systems


• Familiarity with ITIL processes

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