Integration Developer

HCF Australia is delivering strategic initiatives and digital capabilities across its core IT systems to support its member-first strategy and enhance the customer experience. The Integration Services team enables this transformation by designing, developing and managing a standardised integration layer that supports seamless data and service exchange across HCF systems and partner platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks
• Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach
• Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks
• Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities
• Develops, and implements integration solutions to improve efficiency of procedures/methods/practices, using techniques and tools including RESTful APIs, Event Driven/Queue based integrations.
• Continuous streamlining of integrated processes that include analysis of data or activity from multiple software applications
• Implements policies, methods and regulations for data and information security to respect confidentiality, integrity, and availability principles
• Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs
• Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting
• Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high quality standard
• Challenges existing processes and practices to continuously drive efficiencies and technology delivery performance
• Open to learning new technology stack and pushing boundaries to practice innovation
• Perform work in a manner that complies with relevant regulatory standards including Work Health & Safety (WHS) legislation.

Essentials

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a relevant discipline.
• At least two years' experience developing integration applications or services using object-oriented programming.
• Highly developed API design and development capability, with experience in languages and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, PHP, C#, Python, XML and SQL, as well as JSON, REST and data APIs.
• Experience with integration platforms and tools such as MuleSoft, TIBCO, IBM, Oracle, Azure Integration Services, and AWS API Gateway and Lambda.
• Experience researching, reviewing and recommending integrations between systems and applications, including CRM, ERP and financial platforms, payroll systems, HCM and EDRMS.
• Experience with CI/CD developer workflows using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps or TFS.
• Experience with Service Fabric, WCF, JavaScript, Swagger, RAML and OpenAPI frameworks.
• Experience implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment for Java applications using Jenkins and Maven or Ant.
• Experience across custom software development lifecycle processes, including version control, packaging, continuous integration, test automation, code analysis and code-quality metrics.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum, is preferred.
• Proven ability to analyse, design and document interfaces between systems, including detailed field-level specifications.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle, including business and customer requirements gathering, workshop facilitation and successful delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to produce clear, accurate and high-quality technical documentation and diagrams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to details

About HCF

At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we've been putting our members and their health first. As Australia's largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover 2 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric. We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver our Strategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• 50% subsidy on HCF hospital and/or extras cover
• Family-friendly certified employer
• 18 weeks of parental leave for all new parents
• Mental health and wellbeing programs, including workshops, fitness classes, flu vaccinations, skin checks and more
• Discounts on HCF's products, including life, pet and travel Insurance, as well as discounts at Fitness First gyms and on our eyecare products.

Collaboration and inclusivity We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplace is welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and socio-economic status.

Continuous learning and growth We believe in lifelong learning. HCF provides opportunities for personal and professional development. From workshops to mentorship programs, we encourage your growth and curiosity.

At HCF, we want our people to feel supported and empowered to be their best self at work.

We create a flexible, inclusive, family-friendly culture so our employees are inspired and motivated to achieve the best for themselves and our members.

Our purpose is to bring a human touch to every part of the healthcare system, in big ways and small.

Our values inform the way we do things. They help us build the culture we need to realise our purpose.

Our values are to: Step Forward Get There Together Make it Better Stay Human Walk in Their Shoes.

We've invested in our people and teams to ensure they're equipped to reach their career goals.

We help team members expand their skill sets and develop personally through various internal and external courses, as well as broaden their on-the-job experience through transfers, secondments or promotions.