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Our Senior Java Developer designs, builds, and maintains the back-end services that power the Medicare Provider Portal, and the ApacheCamel based integration applications, delivering secure, high-performance code that meets healthcare compliance and quality standards. They ensure adherence to architectural guidelines, coding standards, and CI/CD processes while collaborating with product owners, QA, and operations to translate requirements into reliable, test-driven solutions. This Sr Java Developer supports the organization’s broader goal of remaining a leader among Medicare contractors by ensuring a high quality, secure, and performant provider experience that reinforces the company’s reputation for excellence and compliance.

Salary Range
$100,000 ~ $130,000
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and may fall outside of this range.

Work Location
We are open to remote work in the following approved states:
Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
**Employees within 45 miles of WPS Headquarters (1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI, 53713) will be expected to be able to work onsite 2 days a week on a regular basis.

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

• Want to act as a technical liaison between business stakeholders and the development team.
• Can collaborate with product owners, business analysts, QA, and operations teams to deliver solutions that align with the organization's strategic goals.
• Enjoy analyzing requirements and prepare specifications and documentation in accordance with departmental standards.
• Have designed, developed, tested, and maintained the core Java services that power the Medicare Provider Portal.
• Like to build, enhance, test, and support ApacheCamel based integration applications.
• Enjoy translating technical concepts into business terminology ensuring effective communication between IT and clients.
• Like to participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and effort estimation.
• Can diagnose and resolve production incidents and performance degradations.
• Thive when providing mentorship and guidance to junior developers and promote knowledge sharing and cross-team collaboration to ensure alignment with enterprise development and security practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and/or related work experience.
• 5 or more years of experience building enterprisegrade Java SE/EE applications, writing productionready code, and applying unitand integration
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and supporting Apache Camelbased integration solutions that expose and consume secure RESTful services, configure routes, handle errors, and connect to legacy systems, web services, and message brokers.
• Demonstrated experience working in Scrum teams, delivering userstory increments, participating in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, and using Scrum artifacts to manage work.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences.

 Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Medicare providerportal workflows, CMS regulatory considerations (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH), and common healthdata exchange standards (HL7, X12, FHIR) sufficient to understand business requirements and compliance impacts.
• Expertise with SQL Server queries and stored procedures.
• A working understanding of OAuth 2.0 (Open Authorization) for API security.
• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) for pipelines and story management.

 Remote Work Requirements

• Wired (ethernet cable) internet connection from your router to your computer.
• High speed cable or fiber
• Minimum of 10 Mbps downstream and at least 1 Mbps upstream internet connection (can be checked at https://speedtest.net).
• Please review Remote Worker FAQs for additional information.

Benefits

• Remote and hybrid work options available
• Performance bonus and/or merit increase opportunities
• 401(k) with a 100% match for the first 3% of your salary and a 50% match for the next 2% of your salary (100% vested immediately)
• Competitive paid time off
• Health insurance, dental insurance, and telehealth services start DAY 1
• Professional and Leadership Development Programs
•  Review additional benefits: (https://www.wpshealthsolutions.com/careers/)

Who We Are

WPS, a health solutions company, is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal government contractor headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors and group health plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer 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. WPS has been making healthcare easier for the people we serve for nearly 80 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.

Culture Drives Our Success

WPS’ culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an open and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of employee engagement as an investment in our workforce—both current and future—to effectively seek, leverage, and include differing and unique perspectives that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. 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 proud of the recognition we have received from local and national organization regarding our culture and workplace:  WPS Newsroom - Awards and Recognition.

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This position supports services under Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contract(s).  As such, the role is subject to all applicable federal regulations, CMS contract requirements, and WPS internal policies, including but not limited to standards for data security, privacy, confidentiality, and program integrity. CMS contractors and their personnel are subject to screening and background investigation including fingerprinting prior to being granted access to information systems and/or sensitive data to safeguard government resources that provide critical services