Professional Technology Integration, Inc.
Hartford, Connecticut
Position: QA Test Analyst (Ref: 18581) Location: Hartford, CT USA, 06106 Salary: DOE Duration: 7 Months 24 Days - Contract Openings: 1 Deadline: 08/14/2026 Description: Local Candidates Only Hybrid onsite 1 day/week We are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Test Analyst with expertise in both manual and test automation to support mission-critical enterprise applications. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, developers, business analysts, solution architects, and project managers to ensure enterprise software systems meet key business requirements, technical specifications, and regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience performing manual testing, automation testing, API validation, backend database verification, and end-to-end business process testing across complex enterprise platforms (such as Salesforce, Java-based software, Progressive Web Applications, and integrated web services). Key Responsibilities Test Planning & Execution: Perform manual and automated testing across multiple enterprise applications, including functional, regression, smoke, integration, system integration (SIT), and user acceptance testing (UAT). Test Artifact Creation: Develop and maintain detailed test scenarios, test cases, and automated test scripts derived from business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications. Requirements & Traceability: Participate in requirements walkthroughs, sprint planning, and backlog refinement; build and maintain a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure complete test coverage. Automation & API Testing: Design, update, and execute automated test scripts using established frameworks. Conduct REST and SOAP API testing using industry-standard tools. Data Validation: Perform backend database verification and data integrity checks using custom SQL queries. Defect Management: Identify, log, prioritize, and track software defects to resolution in Jira; participate in defect triage meetings and validate fixes. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and assist with post-production release validation. General Experience Minimum 5+ years of dedicated Quality Assurance experience testing large-scale enterprise applications. Proven track record in both manual testing and automated test framework execution within Agile/Scrum environments. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical details to non-technical stakeholders. Technical & Domain Experience Proficiency with automation tools and concepts (Selenium, TestNG, Java, or similar frameworks). Hands-on experience with API and Web Service testing (Postman, REST, SOAP). Strong backend data validation skills using SQL. Familiarity with Salesforce application testing, Mobile/PWA testing, Git, and CI/CD pipelines. Prior experience testing complex, policy-driven applications within Public Sector / State Government, Human Services, Healthcare, Medicaid/Medicare, or Eligibility & Benefits Management Systems is strongly preferred. Working Conditions: Location: Hartford, CT (Hybrid 1 day/week onsite; initial remote period before transitioning) Work Schedule: Monday Friday, 8:00 AM 5:00 PM EST (40 hours/week) Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens, Green Card, GC EAD Required / Desired Skills Quality Assurance & SDLC Testing Required - 5 Years Manual & Functional Testing Required - 5 Years Test Automation (Selenium / TestNG / Java) Required - 3 Years API Testing (REST / SOAP / Postman) Required - 3 Years SQL & Backend Database Validation Required - 3 Years Agile / Scrum & Defect Tracking (Jira) Required - 2 Years Requirements Traceability (RTM) & Test Case Authoring Required - 3 Years Salesforce Application Testing Required - 2 Years Public Sector / Government / Human Services Domain Required - 2 Years Eligibility Systems / Medicaid / Healthcare Experience Required - 2 Years Mobile & Progressive Web App (PWA) Testing Required - 1 Years Version Control (Git) & CI/CD Concepts Required - 1 Years
Position: QA Test Analyst (Ref: 18581) Location: Hartford, CT USA, 06106 Salary: DOE Duration: 7 Months 24 Days - Contract Openings: 1 Deadline: 08/14/2026 Description: Local Candidates Only Hybrid onsite 1 day/week We are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Test Analyst with expertise in both manual and test automation to support mission-critical enterprise applications. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, developers, business analysts, solution architects, and project managers to ensure enterprise software systems meet key business requirements, technical specifications, and regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience performing manual testing, automation testing, API validation, backend database verification, and end-to-end business process testing across complex enterprise platforms (such as Salesforce, Java-based software, Progressive Web Applications, and integrated web services). Key Responsibilities Test Planning & Execution: Perform manual and automated testing across multiple enterprise applications, including functional, regression, smoke, integration, system integration (SIT), and user acceptance testing (UAT). Test Artifact Creation: Develop and maintain detailed test scenarios, test cases, and automated test scripts derived from business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications. Requirements & Traceability: Participate in requirements walkthroughs, sprint planning, and backlog refinement; build and maintain a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure complete test coverage. Automation & API Testing: Design, update, and execute automated test scripts using established frameworks. Conduct REST and SOAP API testing using industry-standard tools. Data Validation: Perform backend database verification and data integrity checks using custom SQL queries. Defect Management: Identify, log, prioritize, and track software defects to resolution in Jira; participate in defect triage meetings and validate fixes. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and assist with post-production release validation. General Experience Minimum 5+ years of dedicated Quality Assurance experience testing large-scale enterprise applications. Proven track record in both manual testing and automated test framework execution within Agile/Scrum environments. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical details to non-technical stakeholders. Technical & Domain Experience Proficiency with automation tools and concepts (Selenium, TestNG, Java, or similar frameworks). Hands-on experience with API and Web Service testing (Postman, REST, SOAP). Strong backend data validation skills using SQL. Familiarity with Salesforce application testing, Mobile/PWA testing, Git, and CI/CD pipelines. Prior experience testing complex, policy-driven applications within Public Sector / State Government, Human Services, Healthcare, Medicaid/Medicare, or Eligibility & Benefits Management Systems is strongly preferred. Working Conditions: Location: Hartford, CT (Hybrid 1 day/week onsite; initial remote period before transitioning) Work Schedule: Monday Friday, 8:00 AM 5:00 PM EST (40 hours/week) Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens, Green Card, GC EAD Required / Desired Skills Quality Assurance & SDLC Testing Required - 5 Years Manual & Functional Testing Required - 5 Years Test Automation (Selenium / TestNG / Java) Required - 3 Years API Testing (REST / SOAP / Postman) Required - 3 Years SQL & Backend Database Validation Required - 3 Years Agile / Scrum & Defect Tracking (Jira) Required - 2 Years Requirements Traceability (RTM) & Test Case Authoring Required - 3 Years Salesforce Application Testing Required - 2 Years Public Sector / Government / Human Services Domain Required - 2 Years Eligibility Systems / Medicaid / Healthcare Experience Required - 2 Years Mobile & Progressive Web App (PWA) Testing Required - 1 Years Version Control (Git) & CI/CD Concepts Required - 1 Years
Kaiser Permanente
Greensboro, North Carolina
Tech Summary This senior-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization, which provides an integrated enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department enables application and technology teams to modernize workloads, adopt consistent deployment practices, and operate business-critical services with strong reliability, security, compliance, and operational readiness. The Senior Container Platform Engineer is a hands-on engineering partner responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and supporting reusable platform capabilities that simplify application onboarding and improve the developer experience. The position works closely with application teams and partners across cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, and development automation to translate enterprise needs into secure, scalable, and supportable solutions. The role contributes to automation, standardized onboarding patterns, platform lifecycle improvements, production troubleshooting, and continuous service improvement across shared and dedicated container environments. By combining platform engineering with application enablement and production ownership, this position helps reduce one-off implementations, improve delivery consistency, and expand adoption of the enterprise container service for teams supporting mission-critical healthcare capabilities. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for providing expert technical advice on IT infrastructure for assigned systems, setting the technical direction for infrastructure solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while mentoring and advising others in all system development lifecycle phases. Essential Responsibilities: Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Provides consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities. Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs. Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems. Serves as a functional expert and collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs. Translates business requirements, and functional and non-functional requirements, into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications. Ensures system designs adhere to company architecture standards. Builds partnerships with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation. Serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services. Mentors other technical resources throughout infrastructure systems development. Reviews and validates technical specifications and documentation for complex or multi-dimensional solutions. Leads the development and modification of solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems. Collaborates with business leaders, Solutions, and lead enterprise architects to review business drivers, and establish a foundation for enterprise systems planning. Reviews benchmarking results, and provides information to support current and future infrastructure needs and projects to IT leadership. Provides preliminary conclusions. Benchmarks and evaluates IT trends and technologies to identify opportunities and considerations that impact ROI. Makes recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands. Guides and drives physical architecture design for new initiatives. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. Additional Requirements:
Tech Summary This senior-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization, which provides an integrated enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department enables application and technology teams to modernize workloads, adopt consistent deployment practices, and operate business-critical services with strong reliability, security, compliance, and operational readiness. The Senior Container Platform Engineer is a hands-on engineering partner responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and supporting reusable platform capabilities that simplify application onboarding and improve the developer experience. The position works closely with application teams and partners across cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, and development automation to translate enterprise needs into secure, scalable, and supportable solutions. The role contributes to automation, standardized onboarding patterns, platform lifecycle improvements, production troubleshooting, and continuous service improvement across shared and dedicated container environments. By combining platform engineering with application enablement and production ownership, this position helps reduce one-off implementations, improve delivery consistency, and expand adoption of the enterprise container service for teams supporting mission-critical healthcare capabilities. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for providing expert technical advice on IT infrastructure for assigned systems, setting the technical direction for infrastructure solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while mentoring and advising others in all system development lifecycle phases. Essential Responsibilities: Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Provides consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities. Provides some recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs. Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems. Serves as a functional expert and collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs. Translates business requirements, and functional and non-functional requirements, into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications. Ensures system designs adhere to company architecture standards. Builds partnerships with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation. Serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services. Mentors other technical resources throughout infrastructure systems development. Reviews and validates technical specifications and documentation for complex or multi-dimensional solutions. Leads the development and modification of solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems. Collaborates with business leaders, Solutions, and lead enterprise architects to review business drivers, and establish a foundation for enterprise systems planning. Reviews benchmarking results, and provides information to support current and future infrastructure needs and projects to IT leadership. Provides preliminary conclusions. Benchmarks and evaluates IT trends and technologies to identify opportunities and considerations that impact ROI. Makes recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands. Guides and drives physical architecture design for new initiatives. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. Additional Requirements:
Kaiser Permanente
Greensboro, North Carolina
Tech Summary This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Tech Summary This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.