Job Description

The Software Developer Associate , reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Software Developer Associate is responsible for designing, testing, developing, and deploying applications for Northwestern Medicine.

Northwestern Medicine Information Services drives innovative, high-value solutions to transform health care.

We are committed to supporting the relentless pursuit of better medicine by providing exceptional service to our patients and guests as well as internal clients across the organization. To ensure excellence, our team goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that our systems work together seamlessly.

Northwestern Medicine understands that technology plays an integral role in shaping the future of health care. Information Services strategically supports the organization by:

• Leveraging AI, automation and rollout of advanced cyber controls that support digital transformation strategies
• Implementing advanced technologies in clinical and administrative areas
• Furthering development of the end user support model to help enhance modern infrastructure

_ Responsibilities:_

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas
• Participate in the Agile software development from concept, design to full-stack coding and testing
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Stay current on development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications;
• Participate in meetings and conference calls
• Participate in internal process improvement initiatives within team's toolsets and workflows
• Provide operational support as needed
• Assists in problem-solving, seeks guidance from seniors
• Collaborates within immediate team, seeks assistance when needed
• Collaborate with senior developers and team members to develop high-quality software solutions.
• Follow coding standards and best practices to ensure the maintainability and scalability of the codebase.
• Participate in code reviews to provide and receive constructive feedback.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

_ Required:_

• 0-2 years of experience as a full stack software developer

_ Preferred:_

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Web development using the .Net Framework, .Net Core, C#, ASP.Net, Web Services (Web API), WCF, REST, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS
• Microsoft SQL Server database design with experience in query optimization
• Front end frameworks (Angular, Razor, React, Blazor etc.)
• Entity Framework
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Source Control: Git, Azure DevOps Services
• Exposure to Cloud Computing such as Microsoft Azure

Additional Information

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.