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Description: Contract: 6 month right-to-hire Position Overview Senior Software Engineer responsible for delivering integrated product solutions and support for actuarial modeling and prediction platforms. Works in team environment and provides technical expertise and guidance throughout the entire software lifecycle. Duties include analysis, design, estimation, planning, implementation, unit and integration testing of platform improvements, and operational support to ensure systems availability for business stakeholders. Also required are status tracking, communication of progress, and issue resolution. Responsibilities

• Provide IT solution design, delivery, and support expertise in Prophet, C#, Web, JavaScript, Oracle, and SQL Server technologies.
• Apply leadership and ownership through full solution development lifecycle while providing estimates, deliverables, and results.
• Meet regularly with Project Management and Technical Leads to manage status, milestones, risks, and issues in an Agile SDLC.
• Engage in customer planning sessions and demonstrate ability to drive out requirements.
• Analyze requirements, develop technical specifications, and perform solution gap analysis via Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Provide technical and/or business application consultation to customers and team members regarding functionality, architecture, operating systems, and databases for complex product systems.
• Prepare and present application and programming design solutions to fulfill business requirements.
• Engage technical analysts and business users to provide input on test cases, test scenarios, and test plans.
• Engage teams outside of immediate group as required (e.g. product integration points, infrastructure, help desk, security, and vendors).
• Evaluate and balance application change risk with business need for timely product enhancements.
• Efficiently design, deliver, and release operational enhancements to address performance, stability, and monitoring capabilities.
• Develop and mature operational support knowledge base and playbook documentation to complement product solutions.
• Identify and rapidly resolve issues to enable operations. Provide training guidance to team members and users as required.
• Develop and maintain effective customer relationships to maintain credibility and trust.

  Requirements

• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into systems design and technical solutions.
• Proven experience with structured and object-oriented programming, design patterns, relational database design, operating systems, networking concepts, and systems integration.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate project objectives and scope for feasibility, understanding, and scheduling, and to ensure projects meet budget and plan criteria.
• Complex analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to multi-task and work well within a team environment.
• Advanced interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to apply leadership when required.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Agile.

  Technical Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science
• Certification in Microsoft C#.NET software development
• Certification in Microsoft or Oracle database development
• 10+ years of experience in programming/systems analysis in C#.NET, ASP.NET, and JavaScript
• 7+ years of experience implementing SOA and web applications with heavy relational database integration
• 7+ years high volume RDBMS database development experience with complex SQL
• 5+ years of experience with Agile development, including code reviews, TDD, automated testing, continuous integration, refactoring
• 2+ years of experience integrating and supporting FIS Prophet Professional and Prophet Enterprise v8.x or higher
• 2+ years of Microsoft HPC integration and support experience
• 2+ years of reinsurance industry experience

  Preferred:

• LOMA certification

Description:   Company is currently seeking both Senior .NET Developers and .NET Developers. Responsibilities

• Provide IT solution design, delivery, and support expertise in Prophet, C#, Web, JavaScript, Oracle, and SQL Server technologies.
• Apply leadership and ownership through full solution development lifecycle while providing estimates, deliverables, and results.
• Meet regularly with Project Management and Technical Leads to manage status, milestones, risks, and issues in an Agile SDLC.
• Engage in customer planning sessions and demonstrate ability to drive out requirements.
• Analyze requirements, develop technical specifications, and perform solution gap analysis via Agile and Scrum methodology.
• Provide technical and/or business application consultation to customers and team members regarding functionality, architecture, operating systems, and databases for complex product systems.
• Prepare and present application and programming design solutions to fulfill business requirements.
• Engage technical analysts and business users to provide input on test cases, test scenarios, and test plans.
• Engage teams outside of immediate group as required, such as product integration points, infrastructure, help desk, security, and vendors.
• Evaluate and balance application change risk with business need for timely product enhancements.
• Efficiently design, deliver, and release operational enhancements to address performance, stability, and monitoring capabilities.
• Develop and mature operational support knowledge base and playbook documentation to complement product solutions.
• Identify and rapidly resolve issues to enable operations; provide training guidance to team members and users as required.
• Develop and maintain effective customer relationships to maintain credibility and trust.

  Requirements

• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into systems design and technical solutions.
• Proven experience with structured and object-oriented programming, design patterns, relational database design, operating systems, networking concepts, and systems integration.
• Demonstrate an ability to evaluate project objectives and scope for feasibility, understanding, scheduling, and ensure projects meet budget and plan criteria.
• Complex analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to work well within a team environment and ability to multi-task.
• Advanced interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to apply leadership when required.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills.

Technical Requirements:

• Masters degree in Computer Science.
• Certification in Microsoft C#.NET software development.
• Certification in Microsoft or Oracle database development.
• 10+ years of experience in programming/systems analysis in C#.NET, ASP.NET, and JavaScript.
• 7+ years of experience implementing SOA and web applications with heavy relational database integration.
• 7+ years high volume RDBMS database development experience with complex SQL.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile development, including code reviews, TDD, automated testing, continuous integration, refactoring.
• 2+ years of experience integrating and supporting FIS Prophet Professional and Prophet Enterprise v8.x or higher.
• 2+ years of Microsoft HPC integration and support experience.
• 2+ years of reinsurance industry experience.

Preferred Requirements:

• LOMA Certification.

Description: Responsibilities:

• Analyze user requirements, develop functional specifications, and perform gap analysis of existing information systems.
• Design and develop software for new functionality, improvements, and system longevity.
• Identify and resolve problems in order to provide continuous business operations.
• Provide technical and/or business application consultation to business partners and team members in the areas of functionality, architecture, operating systems, and databases for complex Oracle application systems.
• Develop low-level technical specifications and detailed program specifications as needed.
• Review/Approve detailed technical decisions and high and low level design documentation.
• Analyze existing systems and architectures for improvement recommendations.
• Ensure code quality, perform code reviews, and mentor development team members.
• Ensure users’ expectations are met, gain understanding when desired outcomes are not feasible, and provide alternative solutions to meet objectives.
• Ensure all documentation of technical architecture and systems are complete.
• Provide training and guidance to team members and users as required.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• 5 – 8 years experience in programming/systems analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL (10g or later) and Oracle database (11g or later),
• Advanced interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to lead.
• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into systems’ design and technical solutions.
• Knowledge of structured and object-oriented programming, relational database design, operating systems, networking concepts, and systems integration.
• Complex analytical and problem-solving skills with focused attention to detail.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills with other IT associates and business users.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects.
• Ability to balance detail with departmental goals and objectives.
• Good skills in customer relationship management and change management.
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
• General business knowledge.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• 8+ years experience in programming/systems analysis.
• Experience with Oracle Developer Suite (Forms/Reports 10g or higher).
• Experience with object-oriented programming frameworks (e.g. .NET C#, Java).
• Broad business and finance-related knowledge.
• Knowledge of MS Team Foundation Server (2010 or later), AIX/UNIX shell, Windows Server (2003 or later), MS SharePoint (2010 or higher), ServiceNow, MS Active Directory, XML Structures, and Toad.
• Knowledge of various open source tools and frameworks.
• Master’s degree and/or LOMA certification.