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Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Job Opportunities

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Company Overview
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, headquartered in Rochester, NY, is part of a $4.5 billion family of companies that finances and delivers health care services across upstate New York and long-term care insurance nationwide. Collectively, the enterprise provides health insurance to nearly 2 million people and employs more than 7,000 New Yorkers.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield maintains a strong local presence through four regional headquarters and additional field offices:

• Central New York Region, based in Syracuse with an additional office in Watertown;
• Central New York Southern Tier Region, based in Elmira with an additional office in Binghamton;
• Rochester Region, based in Rochester; and
• Utica Region, based in Utica with additional offices in Oneonta and Plattsburgh.

As New York State's largest nonprofit health plan, the company remains committed to three core principles:

• We exist to assure, in the communities we serve, that as many people as possible have affordable, dignified access to needed, effective health care services, including long-term care.
• We recognize the need, and our responsibility, to reach out to all segments of the communities we serve, particularly the poor and aged and others who are underserved, to enhance quality of life, including health status.
• We are committed to being a nonprofit health insurer.

Role of IT
The Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Information Technology Division is powered by an energetic and highly skilled group of individuals, with a wealth of industry knowledge and experience. To keep our talent fresh, we have a strong interest in new graduates.

Our IT division strives to be a place where talent, teamwork, quality and values come together in the successful completion of desired outcomes. At Excellus, you will be a part of a challenging, rewarding environment, respectful of ideas and individuals.

With an "eye on the future" by looking at new technologies that will enable competitive advantage, we are positioning ourselves to bring speed to our solution delivery. We are closely aligned with our customers, demonstrating how IT enables their business and provides the solutions as they look to the future!

Our application design standards and processes are aimed at both a reduction in complexity and increased availability, plus an infrastructure focused on the enterprise. Our IT team is creating an application framework that promotes modularity and reuse within a service-oriented architecture.

Our System Operations team supports a concerted hardware and software plan. Tools are being put in place that will monitor the enterprise for proactive action.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield's IT Division is evolving towards a new application development framework, powered by a dynamic, responsive, and flexible team of engineers.

We have opportunities in the following Information Technology areas for great people interested in great results.

• IT Management
• Multi-Platform Operating Systems (Unix, ZOS)
• Desktop Engineers
• Technology Help Desk Support
• Web Development
• Data Storage Solution Enterprise
• Storage Information Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Technical Support
• Client Server Application Development
• Enterprise-wide Applications
• Object-Oriented Methodologies
• LAN /WAN Technologies
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Software Quality Assurance
• Project Management
• Security Administration
• Systems Administration

To take part in developing solutions for the fast-paced, high-demand health care industry, join Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Information Technology.

We Listen. We Strategize. We Execute. We Follow Through.

We are Focused on the Future.