Senior Software Developer, Innovation

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Senior Software Developer, Innovation

Job Summary:

The Senior Software Developer is responsible for rapid development of software applications as part of the Innovation Center's strategy for improving health care delivery across Penn Medicine. These responsibilities include both back-end and front-end architecture and development, software quality assurance, database administration, and systems administration. Due to our approach of rapid prototyping the position demands expertise in a variety of languages and technologies. This position requires a high degree of engagement and resourcefulness as well as outstanding communication and organizational skills.
The Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation facilitates the rapid, disciplined development, testing and implementation of new strategies to reimagine health care delivery, improve patient outcomes, patient and clinician experience, and reduce the cost of care. We believe the best way to make big improvements to patient health and health care delivery is to experiment quickly at low cost, only scaling once we find high impact solutions. The Center provides an exciting and fast-paced opportunity for motivated, entrepreneurial individuals to effect systemic change at Penn Medicine and across the healthcare industry.
Responsibilities:

Provide leadership for the platform from a technical perspective, including managing junior developers and developers from third-party firms, and driving large technical infrastructure projects. Participate in the hiring process for junior developers.
Manage the development team's pipeline, scheduling work to best meet the needs of diverse stakeholders, providing timeframe estimates to study teams, and working with the development team to ensure deadlines are met
Maintain a long-term technical vision and roadmap for the platform, and ensuring that individual enhancements to the platform contribute to the long-term vision wherever possible
Collaborate with faculty and study teams to translate cutting edge research protocols into functionality for patient engagement and behavior change. Lead the development team in creating detailed feature specifications that meet the needs of a specific study while being general enough to serve future studies where appropriate
Craft system architectural approaches to drive down the cost of feature development and deployment
Design new methods of information delivery and display for increased patient comprehension and response
Diagnose reported issues, identifying the source of problems, determining the best path to resolution and implementing fixes
Manage evolving and supporting QA processes, writing automated unit and functional tests for new features, documenting work clearly, and finding ways to continuously improve quality. Work with the study teams to ensure they are equipped (with data, tools, and training) to do their own Quality Assurance
Lead an agile development process (using a modified version of Scrum). Work with the development team to iteratively determine the best way to meet project and long-term goals in a timely, robust and scalable manner.
Work with infrastructure providers to plan for future needs and ensure timely, efficient and reliable delivery.
Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures.
Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization.
Education or Equivalent Experience:

Bachelor's Degree (Required), preferably in Computer or Information Science or a related field.
5+ years of experience developing with MySQL (preferred), Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, or other advanced RDMS, including database design (Required).
5+ years of experience with multi-tiered web application development; experience with JavaScript and PHP or other scripting languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) preferred (Required).
Skills & Abilities:

Ability to develop web applications using PHP or other scripting language(s) (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.); client-side scripting with JavaScript and HTML; experience with Node.js and functional programming paradigms is a plus.
Demonstrated knowledge of modern RDBMS database design and management (MySQL experience preferred; Oracle or MS-SQL acceptable).
Proven ability to understand end-user needs, translate them into technical requirements, and work with end-users to ensure their needs are met in a timely fashion.
Ability to diagnose and solve complex user-reported or system-identified issues in production.
Detail oriented with the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Superior skills in providing project coding timeline estimates for work performed individually or by a broader team.
Skills in writing feature specifications.
Skills in consensus building among a diverse set of stakeholders.

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