Software Developer

Position Summary:

This developer has primary responsibility to provide support to the client operations department and our customers in a fast paced environment. This includes implementation issues, third level product support and maintenance for the Aerial product.

The Software Developer performs analysis, design, programming, unit testing, debug, bug verification, release testing, and beta support on Java/Oracle/SQLServer based healthcare management software as per internal and external user requests. This developer works with various team members including other developers, product managers, application architects, data architects and customer application experts to create software products containing required modifications.

Duties and Functions:

• Third level product support:
• Analysis of production support issues.
• Collaborate with 1st and 2nd level support groups to resolve issues.
• In some cases work directly with clients to re-create and resolve issues.
• When appropriate create Patch releases to resolve production issues.
• Maintenance support:
  • Participate on scrum team to meet maintenance release contents and schedule.
  • Particpate in software bug analysis and correction on applications software which may require extensive research and anlysis.
  • Provide story point estimates on backlog items.
  • Actively participate as a scrum team member on all phases of the scrum process. Kickoffs, task breakout and estimation, sprint commitment, daily scrums, retrospectives, cross team collaboration, design sessions, UI designs, code reviews, conducts unit testing and integration testing for functionality and limits, technical documentation, or whatever the team needs to succeed.
• Work effectively with other departments to implement/support Medecision's products.
• Assist other team members with work if you notice that they are falling behind schedule or are struggling.
• Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

Key Personal Attributes:

• Self-initiative and results-oriented motivation including:
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and work to priorities and deadlines.
  • Dedication to striving for Excellence through execution.
  • Ability to work within a team setting. Open to new ideas and flexible enough to embrace change.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and abilities.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or computer science; advanced degree desirable.
• Typically requires up to six years of experience in application development with at lease two years creating new product features.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

• Thorough technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design and implementation.
• Show aptitude for work in an Agile development environment, including the ability to work as part of a scrum team and being able to collaborate with team members.
• Excellent analytical and design skills at multiple product level.
• Provide input on sprint planning and complete tasks to meet team commitments on time.
• Experience in a support environment and dealing with customers.

Equipment and Applications:

• J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, XML, JDBC, SQL, Web Design, Web Services (SOAP), IceFaces.
• Application Servers: WebSphere, JBoss
• Databases: Oracle, SQL Server
• Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux
• Other Tools: MyEclipse/Eclipse, ClearCase, CruiseControl, Maven, TeamForge, SVN
• Other Requirements/Characteristics: Occasional overtime

About Medecision

Medecision is the leading provider of healthcare management solutions serving national, regional and local health plans, insurers and provider-based care organizations, more than 74,000 physicians, and 44 million consumers. Working within the framework that patients, care providers and health plans are all driving towards better health outcomes, Medecision and its Aerial™ solutions help connect all stakeholders to liberate the highest quality and most cost-efficient care.

As more organizations transition to value-based care, Medecision continually applies its 23 years of experience, its comprehensive technology platforms, significant investments in research and development, and the strongest clinical expertise to ensure consumers receive the best possible care. With Medecision as a business partner, health plans and care providers confidently manage through market changes, regulatory updates and new populations, while improving quality and reducing costs.

For immediate consideration please apply to: hrinfo@medecision.com

Senior Project Manager

Position Summary:

The Senior Project Manager is a leader for new client installations of software. The Senior Project Manager is directly responsible for assigned project revenue and client satisfaction with the projects and project deliverables for multiple teams. Significant functions of the position include: creating, implementing and maintaining a project plan; managing the project according to the plan; coordinating and managing the work relationship with the client’s project team; building and motivating an effective project team; mentoring project managers; and assigning priorities for team members. The Senior Project Manager will manage multiple concurrent projects and teams.

The Senior Project Manager assigns work and coordinates team member activities. The team includes members from Professional Services, Development, QA, Tech Support and Product Support. Team building and team member development are Senior Project Manager Responsibilities. The Senior Project Manager interfaces with the client’s project leader, IS staff and medical management representative as needed to complete the project. The Senior Project Manager also interfaces with the Medecision Client Partner and Client Account Manager to provide project status and current issue information so that the Account Team can interface with client executives and build a high level relationship and completes turnover requirements prior to the transition of the account to the business support function.

Improvements in the standard project plan, estimating techniques, project management tools and operating procedures will be developed and implemented by the Senior Project Manager in conjunction with Health Delivery Solutions management.

Duties and Functions:

• Creates, oversees and manages the successful completion of multiple, complex project implementation plans for Medecision software and products as measured by budget, timeliness, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Adheres to change management protocols to keep projects in budget and scope. Achieves project profitability targets per project.
• Adheres to all protocols and SLAs related to project tracking in Changepoint.
• Assist in developing Best Practices for project management methodology. Mentor and coach other PM staff in methodology and standards.
• Completes weekly analysis of project status, including scope management, resource scheduling and budget status.
• Provides regularly scheduled project level detailed reporting as well as executive scorecard level reporting.
• Meets revenue and expense goals for assigned projects.
• Creates comprehensive statement of work content for assigned projects, ensuring scope, deliverables, assumption, risks and resource needs are clearly defined.
• Creates reference accounts via high quality delivery of assigned projects.
• Effectively engages with decision-maker level contacts in assigned project organizations.
• Conducts ongoing meetings with the client project team.
• Conducts ongoing team meetings with Medecision staff.
• Keeps current on Managed Care Industry changes.
• Reviews project time and cost to assure ongoing project stability. This includes regular budget status reports during the project life cycle, along with following applicable project closing processes for determining the overall project outcome from the standpoint of profitability, schedule and customer satisfaction.
• Provides timely documentation of activity and expenses.
• Review project time and cost to assure accurate invoices.
• Provides supervisory support to other staff including clarification of priorities and tasks.
• Other work related duties as assigned.
• Up to 50% travel.
• Maintain 80% billable utilization.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with previous experience working in a provider or hospital organization, managed care organization as well as a software development environment.
• Excellent prioritization and organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Experience with clinical software implementations.
• Billable/consulting experience
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Project Management Certification a plus.
• 4-5 years proven project management skills.
• Knowledge of Medecision systems a plus.
• Excellent leadership, team building and supervisory skills.
• Technical aptitude a plus.
• Familiarity with Accountable Care and health insurance risk arrangements and managed care industry a plus.
• Excellent attitude and philosophy concerning providing customer service.
• Team orientation.

About Medecision

Medecision is the leading provider of healthcare management solutions serving national, regional and local health plans, insurers and provider-based care organizations, more than 74,000 physicians, and 44 million consumers. Working within the framework that patients, care providers and health plans are all driving towards better health outcomes, Medecision and its Aerial™ solutions help connect all stakeholders to liberate the highest quality and most cost-efficient care.

As more organizations transition to value-based care, Medecision continually applies its 24 years of experience, its comprehensive technology platforms, significant investments in research and development, and the strongest clinical expertise to ensure consumers receive the best possible care. With Medecision as a business partner, health plans and care providers confidently manage through market changes, regulatory updates and new populations, while improving quality and reducing costs.

For immediate consideration please apply to: hrinfo@medecision.com

Regional Sales Director

Position Summary:

The Regional Sales Director will be focused on managing the total revenue stream associated with Medecision products and services within a defined territory for the Health Delivery Solutions Business Unit.  A successful candidate will have a proven track record of establishing deep relationships from the C-Suite down within medium to large medical administration organizations, the ability to develop and manage a sales funnel, a proven track record of closing business and meeting multi-million dollar quotas, and a strong ability to leverage a matrix organization to create solutions and teams that align with client goals.

Duties and Functions:

• Responsible for new business sales quota attainment within a defined territory.
• Develop and maintain new client relationships in the given territory to achieve business targets.  Build client relationships at the C-Suite down with all buying influences.
• Identify, qualify and close new sales opportunities, coordinating support from internal subject matter experts and support teams.  Lead and support new business opportunities and RFP responses, including defining and scoping new relationships.
• Creatively identify techniques for business needs, develop customized solutions to solve client business problems.
• Develop and present proposals that clearly convey business needs, project approach, relevant experience and value added services.
• Negotiate and close new business successfully.
• Maintain awareness of healthcare industry, specifically of the provider market, competition and market conditions.
• Travel as needed in a large regional territory.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• 10+ years enterprise healthcare software sales experience.
• Performance to quota in selling into medium to large healthcare organizations with a complex and clinically-driven decision process.
• Proven ability to sell population management and/or care coordination solutions.
• Credible healthcare sales experience in one or more of the following areas: MSOs, IPAs, ACOs, hospital systems, health plans, and CMS-sponsored plans.
• Proven business development expertise, with the ability to leverage existing relationships and contacts within the industry, and strong negotiation skills.  Must be comfortable closing complex transactions on a deadline.
• Strong existing relationships and network contacts in the industries noted above.
• Must understand key trends and pain points in industry, to link them to IT needs; have strong conceptual understanding of key IT applications/technology and their application in the industry.
• Possess strong consultative sales skills using technology and tools.

About Medecision

Medecision is the leading provider of healthcare management solutions serving national, regional and local health plans, insurers and provider-based care organizations, more than 74,000 physicians, and 44 million consumers. Working within the framework that patients, care providers and health plans are all driving towards better health outcomes, Medecision and its Aerial™ solutions help connect all stakeholders to liberate the highest quality and most cost-efficient care.

As more organizations transition to value-based care, Medecision continually applies its 23 years of experience, its comprehensive technology platforms, significant investments in research and development, and the strongest clinical expertise to ensure consumers receive the best possible care. With Medecision as a business partner, health plans and care providers confidently manage through market changes, regulatory updates and new populations, while improving quality and reducing costs.

For immediate consideration please apply to: hrinfo@medecision.com

Director, People & Culture

Position Summary:

Do you have the ability to partner with senior business leaders? Can you drive programs and processes while implementing change management plus develop leader and manager capability across teams? Are you a good partner with your teammates and driven to execute team commitments and individual commitments that align with the business vision? Does the idea of a high visibility and high impact role in a medium sized, growing company excite you? Are you interested in being part of a team that strives to achieve high business impact, execution excellence and has a lot of fun while we are doing it? If yes, this is an opportunity you don’t want to miss as a Director of People & Culture (P&C).

In this role, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of P&C programs, processes and initiatives. This includes driving programs and processes to enhance employee and management development,  leading the people and culture processes that make up the annual rhythm (performance review, promotion cycles, employee engagement surveys, etc.), partnering with leaders and management to understand hiring needs, handling employee relations and performance management and collaborating with internal enterprise-wide teams to drive the business. You’ll have the ability to influence and execute against our P&C commitments while aligning results to achieve key business goals. This is a great chance to demonstrate your talents in the areas of organization, cross-group collaboration, leadership and management capability, talent retention and attraction. You will help drive proactive solutions to business and people challenges.

Key Accountabilities:

• Business Partner - Understand the diverse work of our leaders and their business and people priorities. Implement systematic organization and people strategies that are aligned to the business strategy. This position is accountable for driving execution of the P&C plan for the organization.
• Talent Management - Partner with the business to identify key talent, define and utilize quality succession plans and understand capabilities needed to deliver for the future success of the business.
• Project Management - Lead the implementation of core P&C programs into the business ensuring an effective, sustainable long-term people strategy.
• Change Agent - Partner with and coach leaders and managers to facilitate organization and culture change.
• Employee Advocate - Build management capability to facilitate an open, inclusive, values-based environment that enables effective employee advocacy. Ensure role is perceived as an objective employee resource and escalation path for unresolved employee relations issues.
• Coach – Provide authentic feedback and coaching to senior leaders and managers, providing both constructive and appreciative feedback on their behaviors, decisions, individual effectiveness, competencies and personal development. Through effective influence, drive change(s) in management behavior to support a culture of accountability and high performance.
• HR Expert – Proactively consults with management on P&C/HR issues by engaging in activities that produce and demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the business provides coaching to management around actions and behaviors and identify opportunities or issues where action will improve business performance. Partner with shared service centers, HR leadership and legal counsel to develop optimal actions plans. Oversee all traditional HR processes, e.g., recruiting, compensation, compliance, etc.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years directly applicable HR/P&C client facing experience working within a large corporate organization or similar environment.
• Experience partnering with and influencing senior leaders
• Understanding of organizational dynamics and the ability to think strategically and problem solve
• Strong interpersonal, coaching, and analytical skills
• Excellent oral and written communication, project and time management skills
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in HR preferred
• Strong business acumen and people acumen, and proven ability to effectively influence business leaders at an executive level

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment. Medecision is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

About Medecision

Medecision is the leading provider of healthcare management solutions serving national, regional and local health plans, insurers and provider-based care organizations, more than 74,000 physicians, and 44 million consumers. Working within the framework that patients, care providers and health plans are all driving towards better health outcomes, Medecision and its Aerial™ solutions help connect all stakeholders to liberate the highest quality and most cost-efficient care.

As more organizations transition to value-based care, Medecision continually applies its 23 years of experience, its comprehensive technology platforms, significant investments in research and development, and the strongest clinical expertise to ensure consumers receive the best possible care. With Medecision as a business partner, health plans and care providers confidently manage through market changes, regulatory updates and new populations, while improving quality and reducing costs.

For immediate consideration please apply to: hrinfo@medecision.com

Business Analyst

Position Summary:

The Business Analyst (BA) works with Medecision’s customers to identify and define the software capabilities needed to meet the requirements of the customer's business workflows.  The focus is to understand the business need and determine how to meet that need with the existing software functionality or through the use of software customization to Medecision’s software products.

The BA defines and documents scope and requirements and communicates these to the Solutions Developer. This role also retains responsibility for the final deliverable to the client, conducting appropriate review cycles and walkthroughs to complete customer handoff. Ownership of the delivery quality also rests with the BA.

Duties and Functions:

• Possess depth of knowledge across Medecision’s product suite.
• Understand the business use cases and workflows to solve for by working closely with the customer.
• Create System Requirements Documents (SRD) defining the customer’s requirements and the solution scope.
• Define solutions to meet the customer’s requirements with existing functionality provided by Medecision’s software products or through customizations to Medecision’s software products.
• Create Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) mapping the customer’s requirements to the solution defined to meet the requirements.
• Create Data Specifications and Interface Control Documents (ICD) defining data interchange between the customer’s systems and Medecision’s software products.
• Communicate the customer’s requirements and the solution scope to the Solutions Developer.
• Conduct design reviews and deliverable walkthroughs with the customer.
• Interface with the Solutions Developer to resolve quality issues, exhibiting ownership with the customer.
• Work within the milestones and constraints defined by the project plan; escalate issues appropriately to the Project Manager.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in a software development environment.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the healthcare industry.
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related experience.
• Demonstrated effective written, oral and interpersonal communication skills
• Understanding and experience with common software development life cycle methodologies, including waterfall and Agile models.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to manage time across multiple projects and priorities and work within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationship with a service-oriented attitude in a team environment.
• Ability to effectively convey business concepts to technical staff and technical concepts to customers.
• Must be able to speak with management and customers and present technical information in a clear, concise manner.
• Working knowledge of relational database management systems (including Oracle) and SQL a plus.
• Health Care Utilization, Disease and Care Management (UM, DM, CM) background/knowledge a plus.
• Clinical background a plus.
• Occasional overtime.
• Ability to work within company guidelines.
• Ability to work in a team structure actively engaged in the goals of the team.
• Per Company policy enter time in the company's time and billing system.

About Medecision

Medecision is the leading provider of healthcare management solutions serving national, regional and local health plans, insurers and provider-based care organizations, more than 74,000 physicians, and 44 million consumers. Working within the framework that patients, care providers and health plans are all driving towards better health outcomes, Medecision and its Aerial™ solutions help connect all stakeholders to liberate the highest quality and most cost-efficient care.

As more organizations transition to value-based care, Medecision continually applies its 23 years of experience, its comprehensive technology platforms, significant investments in research and development, and the strongest clinical expertise to ensure consumers receive the best possible care. With Medecision as a business partner, health plans and care providers confidently manage through market changes, regulatory updates and new populations, while improving quality and reducing costs.

For immediate consideration please apply to: hrinfo@medecision.com

Architect

Position Summary:

The Architecture group has an opening for an entry level Architect. Candidates will have a minimum of 5 years experience as a senior developer designing and developing JEE Web applications. This is a mentored position that will enable the selected candidate to transition into an Architect role at Medecision. The candidate will work with the Architecture team on tactical and strategic architectural initiatives. On a daily basis this candidate will work with development teams to provide architectural guidance on projects associated with new product introduction and/or product enhancements.  When required this candidate will research and recommend new technologies/techniques/patterns and will provide sample programming/standards and best practices for their usage.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assists in crafting and maintaining the future state technology architectural strategy and roadmap.
• Works with various programming and product groups within the company to ensure that required features and modifications are included in the appropriate releases to support cross-product features.
• Provide architectures (pattern based) for new features/functions in the company’s product suite.  These architectures/designs are documented in a standard fashion.
• Assists in performance/scalability testing as required.
• Works with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company's products.
• Evaluates new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the company's products.
• Execute Proof of Concepts to aid in selection.  Create sample code and model best practice use to enable streamlined and efficient implementation.
• Guide and contribute extensively to the ongoing collection, development, review and adoption of architecture and development standards and best practices.
• Actively participate in the Governance process associated with technology standards.
• Stays up to date on latest technologies, open source projects and languages.
• Mentors and assists developers as they migrate to new technologies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science
• Five years experience in product development in an Object-Oriented environment
• Experience with AGILE methodologies, preferably SCRUM
• Experience with SOA standards, including SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSD,XSLT, UDDI and WSI
• Experience in database design, development, normalization and use of Structured Query Language.  Expertise with Oracle and MS SQL Server preferred.
• Experience with the enterprise service buses and  integration brokers/middleware
• Excellent time management, communications, decision making, presentation and organization skills
• Working knowledge of version control systems, requirements management systems and incident tracking systems
• Experience and proficiency using UML and UML modeling tools
• Experience with Web Development on J2EE platform
• Experience designing an enterprise application with financial auditing, contract management, enterprise workflow, business process integration, and perhaps asset management components
• Experience with design patterns in the creation of architectural deliverables.
• Experience with deploying J2EE rich and/or web client applications in a high-availability, clustered environment
• Exemplary general IT knowledge (applications development, testing, deployment, operations, documentation, standards, best practices, security, hardware, networking, OS, DBMS, middleware, etc.)
• Experience designing and implementing SaaS based applications
• Experience in estimating and measuring project velocity
• Excellent Written, verbal, and diagrammatic communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to interface effectively and collaborate with clients, peers, and management to develop solutions and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills, ability to accurately analyze information and make sound decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and accountability for achieving results.

Specific Expertise Requested

• Java, JSF, Icefaces, Spring, Hibernate, JBoss, WebSphere, Eclipse, Java Unit Testing tools, Oracle, MS SQL Server, TeamForge

About Medecision

Medecision is the leading provider of healthcare management solutions serving national, regional and local health plans, insurers and provider-based care organizations, more than 74,000 physicians and 44 million consumers. Working within the framework that patients, care providers and health plans are all driving towards better health outcomes, Medecision and its Aerial™ solutions help connect all stakeholders to liberate the highest quality and most cost-efficient care.

As more organizations transition to value-based care, Medecision continually applies its 23 years of experience, its comprehensive technology platforms, significant investments in research and development, and the strongest clinical expertise to ensure consumers receive the best possible care. With Medecision as a business partner, health plans and care providers confidently manage through market changes, regulatory updates and new populations, while improving quality and reducing costs.

For immediate consideration please apply to: hrinfo@medecision.com