Manager of Application Development

U.S. citizenship is required for this position due to Department of Defense restrictions.

Who We Are

WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer in Wisconsin. Our services offer health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer service support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. In 2021, WPS Health Solutions celebrated 75 years of making health insurance easier for those we serve. Proud to be military and veteran ready.

Our Culture

WPS’ Performance-Based Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an inclusive, empowering employee experience, focusing on People, Work, and Conditions. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities. We are guided by our Purpose: Together, making health care easier for the people we serve.

In 2021 and 2022, WPS Health Solutions was recognized for several awards including:

• Madison, Wisconsin’s Top Workplaces
• Top Workplace national cultural excellence awards for Remote Work and Work-Life Flexibility
• Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces® with the further honor of Achievers “Elite 8” winner in the category of Culture Alignment

Role Snapshot

Our Manager of Application Development will manage a technical team of 8 individuals that deliver Web applications, Web services and CRM solutions that help ensure those eligible for TRICARE and VA benefits in the U.S. or overseas receive the highest level of service. This Manager will perform a critical function guiding internal business leadership and key Military and Veterans Health (MVH) stakeholders

How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:

• Have a passion for Information Technology and want to work with other that are excited about current and future innovation technologies.
• Get excited about IT strategy, process improvement, efficiency, and automation.
• Are a fierce advocate for your staff and want to help each of them grow their skills and achieve their career goals.
• Are driven to innovate and want to be able utilize your leadership skills to modernize legacy applications.
• Leverage your influence and negotiation skills across multiple development teams to deliver innovative shared solutions that deliver business value.
• Have a deep knowledge of Application development, emerging technologies and Agile practices.
• Are excited to forge strong vendor partnerships and build on both existing and new Vendor relationships.
• Have a desire to continue to learn and understand both existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Possess exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

What will I gain from this role?

• The opportunity to deliver technical solutions that make a real difference in delivering health care to veterans, current U.S. Military and their families.
• Working in a change-oriented environment with very talented leaders from across the entire organization.
• Working in new and evolving Agile environment.
• Being able to create roadmaps that have strong impact to WPS’s application and technologies areas and the company as a whole.
• Directing teams of highly skilled individuals and seeing the fruits of your efforts realized through modernization and innovation.
• Deepen your knowledge and experience in leveraging Scrum to deliver quality software.
• Experience working in an environment that serves our Nation’s military, veterans, Guard and Reserves and Medicare beneficiaries.
• Working in a continuous performance feedback environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position due to Department of Defense restrictions.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent post high school and/or related work experience.
• 3 or more years of related work and/or leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4 years in a management capacity over a technical team, including FTE’s and consultant employees.
• Proven experience leading high performing teams.
• Have experience developing and leading teams of developers focused on Object Oriented Development (OOP/OOD)( java, C#, or VB .NET programming teams.
• Have experience with Web Services using REST/JSON and SOAP/XML/WSDL/DTD.
• Have experience leading migrations of on premises applications to a cloud environments, specifically Azure.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and how it can be leveraged to develop continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) pipelines to streamline our code and application changes.
• Are comfortable presenting to external partners as well as internal senior WPS leaders across technology and business domains.
• Experience integrating multiple environments and exchanging data and information between client and customer applications and instances.
• Experience with Enterprise Customer Relationship Management tools, specifically Microsoft Dynamics.

Salary Range

• $115,000 to $140,000
• The base pay offered for this position may vary based on your experience, knowledge, skills, and may fall outside the posted range.

Work Location

This role is open to 100% remote work for this opportunity in the following approved states:
Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin

Remote Worker Requirements

For remote position, employee is required to meet remote worker requirements, including a designated work station, a wired (Ethernet) connection to the network, and a minimum of 10Mbps downstream connection with at least 1Mbps upstream (can be checked at https://speedtest.net)

Benefits

• Remote and hybrid work options available
• Performance bonus and/or merit increase opportunities
• 401(k) with dollar-per-dollar match up to 6% of salary (100% vested immediately)
• Competitive paid time off
• Health, dental insurance, Teladoc starts DAY 1
• Review additional benefits here

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)