Web Development Manager

Join on the heart-warming journey with a team that is a top leader in the rehabilitation industry

Encompass Health is the leader in inpatient rehabilitation industry, you'll feel the Encompass Health direction as soon as you join. We collaborate and provide high-quality, compassionate, individualized care for our patients, allowing us time to get to know them and help them achieve their goals during their rehabilitation journey.

Position Purpose

 The Web Development Manager is a management level position responsible for the managing the development of custom web and emerging platform applications as well as all corporate and hospital public-facing websites. This position is responsible for managing a team of developers, designing and developing these web applications and emerging platform applications. Other key focus areas include\: determining and practicing best practices for web development, working with end users to determine requirements and satisfaction, providing technical assistance and expertise towards development, and providing insight into the latest technologies and techniques that can be leveraged. This position will further be responsible for providing leadership to a team of developers, assisting in their career development, setting meaningful goals and direction for the development team, and delegating work effectively within the development team. 

Responsibilities & Tasks

• Designs and develops web applications to meet business and clinical needs the company.

• Designs and develops web, application and database, and end user interfaces.

• Interviews end users to document requirements.

• Works with end users to determine user satisfaction.

• Develops architecture for web applications.

• Determines and implements best practices for web development.

• Provides insight into latest technologies and development techniques.

• Provides technical expertise on broad range of web technologies.

• Provides technical assistance to web developers.

• Co-ordinates testing efforts with developers and end users.

• Assists in career development of junior employees.

• This position must sit at our Home Office in Birmingham, AL

Minimum Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree required

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience

• Technical Certifications, such as a Microsoft Certified Software Developer or a SUN Certified Java Developer, are preferred but not required

• Healthcare industry experience preferred

• Web Development Managers will be required to perform a number of the following duties:

• Design and develop web applications

• Interview end users to document requirements

• Work with end users to determine user satisfaction

• Develop architecture for web applications

• Determine and implement best practices for web development

• Provide insight into latest technologies and development techniques

• Provide technical expertise on broad range of web technologies

• Provide technical assistance to web developers

• Co-ordinate testing efforts with developers and end users

• Manage team of developers

• Delegate work effectively

• Assist in career development of junior employees

• Manage to deadlines

• Experience in and/or familiar with\: 

• Standard web development best practices

• Object Oriented Design and Development Techniques and Methods

• Agile development tools and techniques

• Data Base Design and Development

• Software development life cycle

• Broad array of web technologies

• Requirements gathering and analysis

• Performance testing

• User acceptance testing

• Technical documentation

• Familiar with regulatory compliance:

  • HIPAA

  • Medicare

  • CMS

  • Sarbanes-Oxley

  • Privacy and Security

  • Web Development Manager will have prerequisite technical knowledge in one or more of the following technologies\: 

  • .NET / / C# / C++ / C

  • Java / Java Server Pages / Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

  • HTML

  • XML

  • MS SharePoint

  • SQL / PL/SQL / Transact-SQL

  • PHP

  • Other emerging technologies for application development such as Blackberry MDS Studio

A little about us

We're confident you'll see the difference the moment you join our team. Working at Encompass Health means working with a growing national inpatient rehabilitation leader. We're proud of our career growth opportunities and how our team members work together for the greater good of our patients. We've been named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Award, among others, which is pretty amazing.

Our benefits start day one

• Affordable medical, dental and vision plans for full-time and part-time employees and their families.

• Generous paid time off that accrues over time.

• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.

• Company-matching 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.

• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

• A community of people who love what they do. Yes, we see that as a benefit.