Manager Data Platforms and Integration-001533

Summary:The Manager of Data Platforms and Integration plans, directs, and evaluates the work of assigned personnel in the design and delivery of Data solutions in a complex enterprise environment. The incumbent in this position communicates with users to develop and maintain a first-hand knowledge of their plans, operations, problems, and opportunities. This role is focused on the delivery of business solutions using Data Platforms technology through various development approaches that continuously improve our services while focusing on value. Additionally, this is a technical leadership position which provides thought leadership with current Data Platforms technologies as well as supervising people doing the same. Typical tasks would be: supervision of the development team, organizing people to tasks to produce software, coordinate software releases, assistance in and facilitation of solution/product design, code review, application behavioral driven development practices, organizing development activities, refining & enforcing the systems development methodology, project management for the team's book-of-work, team capacity planning, review of in-progress / completed work, and adherence to standards.

Essential Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Manages and plans the developers workload based on the SDLC methodology process that is being utilized on a given data platform. (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall)

• Ensures the team is collaborating with other teams to facilitate project design, documentation, code production, unit testing, automated unit testing, and software release on time and under budget

• Practices servant leadership skills in ways consistent with the Lifetime Way; provides authentic leadership to the data platform development staff which enables their best potential while removing impediments

• Conducts regular coaching and mentoring sessions with direct reports to review progress of Goals & Objectives

• Interviews, selects, and trains Team Leads and/or Staff of Data Platform Development. Evaluates and appraises performance and makes recommendations for merit increases and advancements. Motivates and counsel's department personnel to increase efficiency and encourage career development.

• Acts as a technical moderator / leader to the development team on design and execution choices. This aspect of the role leverages hands-on skills to collaborate with subject matter experts on the team to facilitate well-rounded decisions on technical issues.

• Engages users, businesses, solution architects, and project stakeholders to flush out business needs and help arrive at the project design

• Works with project stakeholder, team subject matter experts to provide project estimates and assumptions

• Develops strong relationships with both the business community and the IT organization and portrays a deep understanding of current business processes and industry best practices

• Collaborates with Big Data Strategy and Innovation, Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, and IT Infrastructure to align departmental execution with strategic directives

• Assures the solutions adhere to architecture patterns, support business user requirements, promotes enterprise data governance, and corporate data strategy objectives

• Oversees the behavioral driven development practices in platform data development, is responsible to mature unit testing used by the team and implements strategies to improve quality and/or productivity of the organization

• Performs capacity planning for human capital resources on the platform data development team

• Assists in the development of metrics, standards, governance and processes required to manage the group

• Leads the project management, deliverable tracking, and issues management for the book-of-work owned by the Platform Data development team

• Consults with management, sponsors, and project teams to review project scope/progress and resolve project issues

• Responsible for the source code management in support of the team's dev ops practices

• Drives the release management and planning in support the development schedule of the team

• Endorses the team to develop and maintain current knowledge of Healthcare industry, Business Intelligence, and Data Platform trends / advances

• Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Lifetime Healthcare Companies' mission and values, adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct and Leading to the Lifetime Way values and beliefs.

• Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.

• Maintains knowledge of all relevant legislative and regulatory mandates and ensures that all activities comply with these requirements.

• Conducts periodic staff meetings to include timely distribution and education related to departmental and Ethics/Compliance information.

• Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required.

• Performs other functions as assigned by management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA in Computer Science, Business Administration, Finance or related field with eleven years related work experience. In lieu of degree, 4 years work experience in data warehouse development PLUS 4 years additional years of work experience in leading software development with imperative, functional or object-oriented programing

• Minimum of three years in a leadership role

• Healthcare Payer and/or Healthcare Industry experience a plus

• Experience working with data lakes with specific experience in Big Data technologies such as but not limited toAzure, Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Python, HBase, Kafka, and Sqoopas well as software development practices like behavioral driven development, automated unit testing, code review, code coverage evaluation, and software architecture principles.

• Demonstrated experience in software development with dev ops that does feature based code deployment, continuous testing, continuous release, and quality analysis

• Must understand how to lead agile development following the 4 essential agile principles.

• Experience working with ETL tools such as Informatica in an Oracle Data Warehouse environment.

• Demonstrated experience with Operational Data Store/Data Warehousing in an Oracle environment

• Must understand how to lead iterative and/or traditional waterfall development teams.

• Expertise in structured systems analysis and design, user relations, data gathering techniques, formal test methods, and management information systems

• Experience and/or demonstrated knowledge of quality strategy and process definition

• Experience and/or demonstrated knowledge of testing plans, test results and test scripting development

• Team player with strong interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated skills in quality principles especially root cause analysis and problem solving

• Demonstrated business process development skills and strong analytic, diagnostic, and technical problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated competence in technical leadership and facilitation tasks

• Demonstrated a desire to continuously learn

• Expertise in project planning and project management

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Capable of successfully delivering on multiple projects and priorities simultaneously

• Enjoys having fun with people

Travel Requirement

• Ability to travel across regions.

The Lifetime Healthcare Companies aims to attract the best talent from diverse socioeconomic, cultural and experiential backgrounds, to diversify our workforce and best reflect the communities we serve.

Our mission is to foster an environment where diversity and inclusion are explicitly recognized as fundamental parts of our organizational culture. We believe that diversity of thought and background drives innovation which enables us to provide leading-edge healthcare insurance and services. With that mission in mind, we recruit the best candidates from all communities, to diversify and strengthen our workforce.

OUR COMPANY CULTURE:Employees are united by our Lifetime Way Values & Behaviors that include compassion, pride, excellence, innovation and having fun! We aim to be an employer of choice by valuing workforce diversity, innovative thinking, employee development, and by offering competitive compensation and benefits.

In support of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this job description lists only those responsibilities and qualifications deemed essential to the position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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