Vice President, Business Software Development

Company: CareFirst
Location: Mount Rainier
Posted on: January 21, 2026

Job Description:

This leader is responsible for developing and delivering system solutions for Claims Processing, Enrollment Operations and Customer and Member Services. Also, responsible for developing strategic multi-year application roadmaps, participating in strategic planning sessions, influencing strategic investment decisions, then aligning resources and executing the strategic plan. An executive responsible for fostering a high-performing team focused on continuous improvement and challenging the status quo. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: • Directs organization in defining application solutions for the claims processing, enrollment operations, and customer and member service lines of business. This includes defining multi-year strategic roadmap, gaining alignment with senior leadership to manage budgets and communicating to the value of the product offerings. • Responsible for directing the end-to-end delivery of strategic system initiatives and system enhancements related annual statements of work (SOWs) for claims processing, enrollment operations and customer and members service lines of business. Executive sponsor for SOWs providing management oversight, budget control, and decision making. • Advance emerging software development and deployment technologies and methods that provide high quality and stable applications that meet current and future business direction and improves time to market. • Partner with business stakeholders while serving as a trusted advisor on new trends and best practices in software development and delivery. • Oversees the strategic and the day-to-day activities of the Department, including directing, coaching, and guiding associates to implement departmental, divisional, and organizational mission/goals. Recruits, retains, and develops a high performing team. Evaluates performance of each team member, generates development plans and sets goals within the context of the corporate policies and procedures. Develops annual goals, and prepares, monitors, and analyzes variances of departmental budgets to control and appropriately allocate resources. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: This position manages people. QUALIFICATIONS: • Education Level: Bachelors Degree in Business, Information Systems or industry related field OR in lieu of a Bachelors degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience. • Experience: 15 years Progressive management and executive leadership experience in software development capacity. Preferred Qualifications: • Expertise in Software Development Life Cycles and a demonstrated ability to transform an organization from a traditional Waterfall methodology to an Agile methodology. • Prior experience as a lead or chief developer for the purposes of having a thorough understanding of the work the department is responsible for delivering and applying best practices to optimize the software development discipline. • Demonstrated success creating application development standards that ensure applications are developed, deployed, and maintained in accordance with Enterprise and Business Architecture standards and roadmaps. • Demonstrated success migrating enterprise applications to the Cloud. • Competency in strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management. • Knowledge of and demonstrated success in organizational transformation. • A proven track record of delivering high quality applications on time and within established budgets. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) • Leading large scale technology transformation initiatives. • Very strong communication skills both written and verbal. • Strong collaboration skills in a team environment. • Ability to think strategically.

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