Pega Application Developer, Senior
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Location: El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Description:
Job Description
Your Role
The Senior level Developer of the Pega Platform team is responsible for application service level achievement and customer satisfaction of Blue Shield of California's Pega capabilities. This developer creates, configures, and manages the applications and related components and will be accountable for delivering BSC's desired business outcomes. This includes understanding the functionality of the technical solutions used to enable business processes. This role requires interaction with our IT and Business partners (BU/Functional Area leaders) in determining solid business requirements/ applications solutions that support end user communication.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
About the Team
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.
Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.
Our Workplace Model:
At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.
Two Ways of Working:
o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Please click here for further physical requirement detail.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
Your Role
The Senior level Developer of the Pega Platform team is responsible for application service level achievement and customer satisfaction of Blue Shield of California's Pega capabilities. This developer creates, configures, and manages the applications and related components and will be accountable for delivering BSC's desired business outcomes. This includes understanding the functionality of the technical solutions used to enable business processes. This role requires interaction with our IT and Business partners (BU/Functional Area leaders) in determining solid business requirements/ applications solutions that support end user communication.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Adopt and apply software engineering concepts and processes to software development
- Provide input to designs and technical specifications
- Develop user interfaces and application programs using the technical specifications and design documents provided
- Test, debug, and maintain code according to the technical specifications
- Provide knowledge transfer to less experienced staff
- Assist in creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs
- Actively participate in agile ceremonies (i.e., daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, & demos)
- Improve the reliability and utilization of systems and applications
- Monitor software configuration changes to anticipate and address the impact of data reliability and customer satisfaction issues
- Coordinate sustaining support for application platforms and business processes
- Demonstrate leadership skills on services development, services adoption, and service governance
- Proactively address potential system issues to meet or exceed established timelines and delivers service within budget constraints and seeks ways to reduce application related costs
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Requires at least 5 years of experience in computer related support field
- Requires Pega development (Version Infinity 23) experience and prefers associated certification (Pega Certified Systems Architect)
- Requires Oracle PL/SQL experience
- Desired experience with Facets and Healthcare knowledge
- Experience working in an Agile environment a plus and deep knowledge of the software development life cycle in general is required
- Proficiency with development tool environments (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
- Proficiency with Version Control tools (e.g. Bitbucket, Git, SVN)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Must be self-directed, highly organized, and adaptable
About the Team
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.
Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.
Our Workplace Model:
At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.
Two Ways of Working:
- Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:
o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
- On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Please click here for further physical requirement detail.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.