Application Developer, Consultant

Job Description
The IT Health Solutions Health Data Strategy team is responsible for delivering various initiatives including the Digital Health Record and health data exchanges with vendor partners. The Full Stack Engineer will report to the IT Applications Sr. Manager over Health Data Strategy.

In this role you will be deeply involved in the design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality software solutions. Your role will focus on integrating security and automation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with an emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code and building infrastructure that supports CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud-native delivery. You'll implement and enforce DevSecOps best practices tailored for Azure, contribute to infrastructure as code, and work closely with developers, testers, and cloud engineers to ensure code is secure, scalable, and production-ready from day one.

This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about code quality, automation, and secure cloud development. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Lead a team from start to finish which includes the following:

• Spearhead technical collaboration with vendor teams to define and document API structures, including data models, endpoints, and protocols

• Ensure both internal and external teams are aligned on API specifications, security standards, and integration workflows to enable a successful and seamless API handshake.
• Strong working experience in either Java, Python or .Net.
• Strong expertise in API design (REST, JSON, OAuth), cross-functional communication, and a proactive approach to resolving technical dependencies
• Create and maintain solution design artifacts for Azure cloud implementations using Lucidchart

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience
• Must have Epic Payor experience and understands Clarity and Caboodle
• UI: React and/or Vue and experience with JavaScript, along with CSS responsive design practices
• Backend: .NET (2.0+), Python and Java, hosted across Windows and Linux environments.
• DB: SQL/PL-SQL - API integration tools and API testing tools such as Postman, Insomnia.
• CI/CD: Set up, build & execute continuous build & integration pipelines using BitBucket Pipelines or GitHub Actions
• Containerization: Build a containerized code using Docker & deploying, maintaining containerized code deployment on a container orchestration environment like AKS, RHCP
• Experienced with infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible & Terraform to provision and configure Cloud resources

• Familiarity with

• Networking set up in azure cloud and security protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, authentication protocols, SSH, and SFTP.

• Authorization/Authentication using OpenID Connect (OIDC) & OAuth2.0, Token based etc.

• Agile methodologies

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Be curious, make mistakes, leverage AI as smartly as one can and be proactive, take ownership of end to end technical delivery
• Be great team player.

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:
• Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
• 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.

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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.