Sr. Software Developer - Annuity Administration Platforms

This role reports to the Manager of Application Development, as a key member of a multi-platform team enhancing and supporting a mission critical system providing administration of customer annuity policies. The Sr. Software Developer works across the full ALM lifecycle (analysis, design, development, validation, deployment, support), on any/all elements of the team’s solutions (clients, servers, services, middleware, persistence, communication, …), as well as on the team’s DevSecOps pipeline/tooling – as team priorities and release objectives dictate. The Sr. Software Developer provides thought leadership and coaching in his/her areas of expertise and cross-trains with other team members to broaden and deepen his/her skill set in other areas.

We are currently working in a Hybrid Work Model, in the office each Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote the remaining three business days of the week. We are open to hiring at either our Des Moines, IA or West Chester, PA office locations.

Principle Responsibilities:

• Work with drive, determination, and flexibility to define, design, implement, validate, maintain, and support system elements to satisfy product roadmaps and release plans.

• Provide coaching and mentoring to teammates, in areas of technical or domain expertise.

• Collaborate with users, SMEs, and technical stakeholders to develop adequate feature stories, user stories, and acceptance criteria / usage scenarios to deliver effective, useful software.

• Ensure technical approaches align with architectural blueprints and approved firm practices.

• Contribute expertise and estimates to help define and schedule product releases / deliverables.

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and practice reviews.

• Participate in documentation of team patterns, standards, technical approaches.

• Engage in appropriate SCM, CI, CD, automated testing, and other DevSecOps practices.

• Create and maintain unit and BDD test harnesses, snippets, and scenarios.

• Prepare and maintain technical documentation.

• Assist with ongoing DevSecOps activities.

• Participate in L2+ support for team products and systems.

• Participate in ongoing operational and practice improvements.  

• Coordinate with offshore resources and governance over the deliverables

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Non-Technical Skills/Qualifications 

• Experience specifically in Annuity Administration systems, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industry is required.

• Demonstrates effective communication skills; writes and speaks clearly; presents ideas understandably; uses appropriate channels for audience and subject matter 

• Exhibits efficient and effective documentation skills; recognizes and achieves “just enough” documentation, leveraging content-suitable mediums and mechanisms such as wikis, pictures, diagrams, schema, models, …

• Has strong analytical capabilities and asks questions to gather additional information 

• Can understand the big picture and how individual details fit into it 

• Appreciates the distinction between objectives and artifacts, and can set aside nonessentials to focus on critical-path work 

• Anticipates potential obstacles and develops contingency plans to overcome them 

• Possesses an Agile mindset  

• Experience in insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industry is highly desirable 

• Experience specifically in Annuity Admin systems is highly desirable

 

Technical Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field preferred

• 5+ years professional experience developing enterprise-class multi-tiered/multi-platform Applications

• Proficiency with C and at least one of the following languages is required: Oracle PL/SQL, Linux shell Scripting, PowerBuilder is required

• Understanding/use of CORBA is highly desirable

• Practical experience with Oracle is preferred.

• Practical experience with JSON is desirable

• Proficiency with Git is required; experience with GitHub enterprise preferred

• Practical experience with Jenkins Pipelines/Groovy scripting is desirable

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Venerable Values: 

Every position at Venerable has responsibility for living out the company's values as described here:

We are Courageous - We think critically, ask "why?" and seek out creative solutions.

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