Application Engineer/Programmer

Title

Sr. Application Programmer 

Client

State of Louisiana

Location 

Remote – 2 visits /year to Baton Rouge, LA

Resumes Due

Dec 14-15

Rate

Up to $84/ hr

Duration

~2 years

Description/Role

 The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications. 

OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies. 

Project Overview: 

In accordance with Federal requirements, OTS Customer Agency is transitioning the current Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) from a single system to a more modernized, modular system that supports all aspects of the State Medicaid program. This new Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) will promote automation and streamlined processes that support interoperability and data sharing among the various State agencies that touch Medicaid. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides enhanced matching funds for modules that can be certified as having met the national standards developed for a module. 

Louisiana’s Office of Technical Services (OTS) owns the State’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) that provides the interface capabilities to link the MES modules. As such, Customer Agency is requesting staffing services to support the integration of new MES modules to the State’s EA. 

Roles and Responsibilities for Requested Resources 
 Senior Application Programmer: 

• Design integration solution; develop High Level Design Document; prepare Mapping and Transformation rules; guide the team on integration development activities; understand requirements and prepare technical specifications; Code Review, Deployment, and Testing support; attend meetings; and update status to the leadership. 
• Support integration team on security standards; configure and maintain security for the APIs and MES interfaces; establish proper authentication and authorization for the OTS EA platform; use Identity and Access Management (IAM) to setup Single Sign On (SSO); configure and make sure all integrations are following security standards and apply those standards; define security standards and help the team on configuration; prepare security documentation; and work with team to test all security aspects associated with the APIs and interfaces. 

Skills/Experience Required

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas : 

All Positions: Prior experience with Medicaid or Government Health Insurance Programs. Prior experience with large scale System Integration Projects. Prior experience with Enterprise Architecture development and date exchange protocol development. 

Senior Application Programmer– Minimum of five (5) years in Integration Lead/Architect role.