Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey · 3 days ago
Team Lead, EBTS
Newark, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$123K/yr - $168K/yr
5+ years expHorizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is a health solutions leader dedicated to improving healthcare quality and member experience. The Team Lead, EBTS role involves managing a technology team, overseeing software engineering projects, and ensuring adherence to development methodologies while providing technical guidance and leadership.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Manages the day-to-day operations of a technology team with a focus on the maintenance and software engineering and development of application systems
Drives adoption and adherence to Horizon software development life cycle methodology (waterfall/Agile/Kanban) ensuring quality artifact production
Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work
Ensures adherence to policies, plans, standards, objectives, budgets, staffing allocations and best practices in application development
Manages and tracks team-level project details and serves as the technical subject matter expert, providing leadership during periods of transition. This includes managing technical risks, dependencies, and ensuring timely resolution of critical issues
Manages relations, day to day expectations, time reporting accuracy, and adherence to contract SLAs of vendor partners within the team
Oversees the design, development, and deployment of scalable and resilient applications that support a product focused on achieving distinct business outcomes
Provide hands-on technical guidance, code reviews, and oversight to maintain high coding standards
Facilitate cross-team collaboration, where needed, to integrate applications and ensure seamless data flow
Provides staff management oversight including hiring, promoting, or making recommendations for staff. Conducts performance reviews and assessments, manages performance, engages in skills assessment, and promotes professional development of staff
Qualification
Required
Bachelor Degree required or 12 years equivalent work experience
5 years - Experience with information technology concepts, application development and/or enterprise system maintenance methodology, terminology, and standards required
5 years – Systems maintenance and/or programming experience required
3 years - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language and/or one enterprise system in use at Horizon BCBS
Knowledge of information technology concepts, methodology, terminology, and standards
Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in one or more enterprise IT systems
Knowledge and experience in Agile/Scrum and/or waterfall lifecycle methodologies
Proven Skill to develop and/or maintain an enterprise IT system
Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
Microsoft Office and email skills are required
Adaptive to high pace and changing environment
Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers
Must be willing to adjust schedule to plan and perform maintenance and upgrades outside of business hours and be part of an on-call rotation
Preferred
Product Management experience
Benefits
Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)
Retirement Plans
Generous PTO
Incentive Plans
Wellness Programs
Paid Volunteer Time Off
Tuition Reimbursement
Company
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is a company that provides health insurance products.
5001-10000 employees
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