Location
Washington, DC, United States
Posted on
Feb 24, 2022
Profile
Who we are:
The technology division of AAMC is a vibrant community of people who are excited about making a positive impact in the world of healthcare. The AAMC is dedicated to improving the health of the nation by supporting the entire spectrum of education, research, and patient care activities conducted by our member institutions. Our work in technology assists medical students, teaching institutions, hospitals and doctors to strengthen medical care and improve the health of all.
Significant employer 403(b) contribution
Public transportation subsidy
Generous paid time off program
Tuition reimbursement
Wellness program that includes: discounted gym membership, onsite yoga and sponsored sports teams
Why us, why now?
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care through innovative medical education, cutting-edge patient care, and groundbreaking medical research. AAMC IT is beginning a multi-year modernization of its large product portfolio into an API based digital platform while transitioning from on-premise to Amazon Web Services (AWS). AAMC IT strives to deliver innovative solutions and superb service that enable amazing experiences, impactful strategies, and new insights for the AAMC community and staff.
The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and support of applications that enable the AAMC's service programs and processes for medical students and schools. They will collaborate with business and IT colleagues to assess needs, document requirements, analyze solutions, create prototypes and implement re-engineering of, enhancement to and production issues fixes of a portfolio of applications. They will also work with quality assurance team members to ensure the proposed solution meets functional and performance requirements. This role will also require mentoring of IT team members so there is a balance between enabling junior developers to grow in their areas of responsibility and providing technical oversight for development activities and project deliverables.
How will you make an impact?
Technical Solution Delivery
Lead development initiatives to deliver quality products that meet customers' expectations.
Provide solutions to a variety of applications, restful services and data systems.
Perform detailed technical design, development, code reviews and unit testing of custom applications and data flow in the context of projects, releases and production support.
Provide technical and business explanations and justifications for design, coding approaches and estimates of the level of effort for completing projects, releases and production support tasks.
Perform application and database performance tuning as well as participate in system documentation
Collaboration
Collaborate with other tech leads, product owners, architects, business analysts, quality analysts, developers both onsite and offshore and delivery and system managers to design solutions and solve problems.
Nurture and support a strong engineering culture with product focus, excellent technology, high quality implementations, self-motivated innovation and problem-solving.
Operational Support
Partner with Tech Ops, Enterprise Architecture, Shared Services, and vendor teams to ensure we implement and maintain robust application monitoring practices and integrate it with the 24x7 IT Services Management processes and continuously collect measurements to monitor the effectiveness of application operations and develop plans for improvement.
Be available outside of regular business hours to support code deployments, implement IT maintenance and upgrades, and to respond to disruptions in application services.
Team Mentoring
Provide technical oversight and mentoring for AAMC product development team members by sharing insights into best practices for coding, design and architecture principles.
Responsible for code reviews and guide the team in the development, maintenance and defect resolution of code.
Conduct rigorous reviews to make sure the products and services required for major seasonal events are carefully tested and team is fully prepared to execute successfully.
Lead a team of onshore and/or offshore developers to ensure the development team's design and coding solutions are delivered to QA with high quality and efficiency while meeting functional and non-functional requirements including cross-browser support, WCAG accessibility, security and performance standards
What you'll bring to the role:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related scientific or technical discipline required
8 years of working experience
5 years of experience in Java/J2EE/Hibernate/Spring MVC/SQL
2 years of Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS/SASS, messaging services like AMQ
Experienced developing enterprise level, multi-tiered applications
Experienced with mobile-first development
Understanding of DevOps in AWS environments
Experienced with service-oriented architecture development and implementation
Strong knowledge of database design and data modeling principles
Strong practical experience with Spring Framework, Hibernate, and database design development and operations
Excellent problem-solving, design, development, and debugging skills
If a bachelor's degree is required, related work experience may be substituted in some positions. One year of college course work at an accredited institution is equivalent to one year of related work experience.
The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The AAMC is committed to the policy of an equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, career advancement, and all other personnel practices. The AAMC will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, past or current military service, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Remote Work Eligibility
This position is eligible for remote work in the continental US
If a bachelor's degree is required, related work experience may be substituted in some positions. One year of college course work at an accredited institution is equivalent to one year of related work experience.
The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer. The AAMC is committed to the policy of an equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, career advancement, and all other personnel practices. The AAMC will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, past or current military service, or any other legally protected characteristic.
COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement
The AAMC is committed to providing and maintaining a safe work environment for all
taking measures to secure workforce continuity, and promoting the health and wellbeing of our members, stakeholders, and our communities at large.
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herefore, the
AAMC
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be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees will be required to show proof they are fully vaccinated
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nly vaccines that have beenapprovedor granted EmergencyUseAuthorization(EUA)by the FDA,orlisted foremergency usebythe World Health Organization (WHO)will be accepted.
More information on acceptable vaccines can be found
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