Software Engineer IV, Clinical

The SSI Group, LLC, headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, is a national leader in Healthcare Technology.

Software Engineer IV (Clinical Focus)

Job Code

SEIV.191.002

FLSA Status

Exempt

Job Family

Clinical Data Services

Cost Center

191

Purpose of Position

The Software Engineer IV (Clinical Focus) is assists in the complete product development lifecycle, including product design, architecture, system integration, usability, and product delivery. You will work with other Software Engineers to deliver high quality and scalable Enterprise level SaaS software solutions within a highly collaborative, fast-paced development environment. You will work with Management and Product Owners to ensure product directives are met during all phases of the development life cycle.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Aids in the decision making of product architecture, risks, delivery, scalability, performance, flexibility, maintainability, security, and other quality concerns.
• Determines operational feasibility of requirements by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Researches emerging technologies to evolve enterprise IT architectures and standards.
• Implements proof of concepts to help make technology choices.
• Assists in the analysis, design, testing, and delivery of new features and software applications.
• Writes and maintains technical, architectural, and design documentation that is used when evaluating the evolution of deployable assets.
• Mentors other engineers to grow to similar levels of expertise and effectiveness.
• Develops and reviews system software designs in accordance with corporate security, privacy, accessibility, legal, Federal, and other governance policies.
• Analyzes performance considerations of solutions, identify limits and risks, and tunes performance of applications as required.
• Performs code reviews of software developed by other team members.
• Contributes to the development and execution of corporate software and systems strategies.
• Engineers release strategies that ensure reliable product deployment.
• Ensures that systems are developed correctly considering scalability and fault-tolerance.
• Tests coded functionality against the requirements.
• Assists with production issue resolution by researching and debugging customer issues when escalated to product engineering.
• Develops unit, acceptance, and integration tests where appropriate for automated testing processes.
• Designs and creates hooks in applications to collect performance data.
• Designs and creates patterns for error handling and error logging.
• Identifies poor performing SQL queries and optimizes them.
• Ensures that the team and management are fully informed of work status by updating backlog items and providing regular updates.
• Acts as a positive role model in all aspects of professional performance.

Marginal Functions

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

AWS CDK v2, Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Jira, Docker, Git, JetBrains TeamCity, and Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS) : API Gateway, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Container Services (ECS), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Lambda, Relational Database Service (RDS), Route53, Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Secure Systems Manager (SSM), StepFunctions

Information Security and Data Protection

The SSI Security-First Mindset

Information security and data protection is a shared responsibility - codified in our commitment to the SSI Security-First Mindset. The SSI Security-First Mindset is comprised of five pillars and universally applicable to all employees, regardless of position description, assigned duties and responsibilities.

The Five Pillars of the SSI Security-First Mindset :

Experience and Education Requirements

Education

Min / Preferred

Education Level

Description

Minimum

4 Year / Bachelors Degree

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science required or relevant experience in similar industry.

Preferred

Graduate Degree

Master's Degree in Computer Science preferred.

Years of Experience

Minimum Years of Experience

Comments

A minimum of four (4) to seven (7) years of experience as a Software Engineer required.

Knowledge of HL7, IHE, or FHIR is a plus.

Certifications

Min / Preferred

Certification

Description

A combination of experience and advanced education may be substituted. Background checks and drug test required.

Acknowledgement

I have read and understand this job description and agree that I am able to fulfill the essential functions as stated above. I further understand that it is my responsibility to request an accommodation, if necessary, to fulfill the essential functions of this position.

Employee's Signature

Date

Supervisor Signature

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SSI offers competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, life / AD&D, LTD, vision, 401(k) matching, paid vacation and tuition reimbursement.