Molina Healthcare - Georgetown, KY
posted 2 months ago
The Lead Engineer, Applications position at Molina Healthcare involves designing and building enterprise application systems while applying technology expertise across various disciplines. The role emphasizes the importance of key principles such as stability, scalability, performance, security, compatibility, and re-use, ensuring a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions. The engineer will consider business problems in an end-to-end manner, which includes evaluating people, processes, and technology both within and outside the enterprise as part of any design solution. The position also promotes the use of industry and enterprise technology standards and requires monitoring emerging technologies for potential applications within the organization. In this role, the engineer will adhere to design and application development standards, methodologies, and frameworks within architectural compliance and governance. The responsibilities include hands-on software development to meet key business objectives, particularly with Edifecs knowledge, and leading software and applications development methodologies in accordance with established standards. The engineer will design and develop software applications or systems that address specific business or processing problems, whether for web or mobile platforms. The position requires gathering business requirements and developing both conceptual and technical designs for multiple concurrent projects. The engineer will review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations to assess the feasibility of requested programs or changes within existing systems. Conducting peer reviews of other developers' work is also a key responsibility to ensure adherence to standards and quality. The engineer will be accountable for quality deliveries, participate in the build vs. buy evaluation process, and lead architecture and design discussions. Additionally, the engineer will provide design and architectural expertise on application systems and technologies to both technical teams and business partners, ensuring system performance, budgeting, and planning are adequately supported. The role also involves organizing, managing, and leading cross-team project tasks and deliverables, as well as presenting solutions to technical peer review committees. Overall, the Lead Engineer is expected to foster cross-organization teamwork, collaboration, communication, and leadership while providing constructive feedback for continuous improvement.