Business Programmer III

Job Posting End Date: October 22

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

This position is the third level in a four-level career path. This position will perform a variety of programming assignments requiring knowledge of established programming procedures and data processing requirements. Employees at this level are expected to design, code, test and implement new applications and to maintain existing programs/applications which support business area functions. In addition, employees at this level are expected to lead and participate in departmental, cross-functional and corporate projects and to consult with the business areas to provide research and analysis skills. These efforts are medium to large in size with a moderate to high level of complexity.

Job Specifications

Educational/Work Experience

• Bachelor degree is required.
• 5 - 10 years experience with business or financial analysis, management reporting, or related work experience is required.

Technical Experience

• Advanced experience with query, reporting and analysis tools in a mainframe environment, such as QlikView, SAS and Easytrieve Plus, is required.
• Experience with SQL and Tableau
• Expert PC skills required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, etc.).
• Significant experience working with a data Warehouse or relational databases is required.
• Must possess strong understanding and experience interpreting logical and physical designs of different relational database structures.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, extraction, transformation and batch load processing is required.
• Knowledge of systems is preferred.
• Experience with DW/BI development projects and data mining techniques is preferred.

Business Experience

• Insurance industry knowledge is highly desirable.
• Cross-functional and in-depth knowledge of multiple business processes and operational processes is highly desirable.

Additional Skill-Set Requirements

• Highly motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to prioritize work under the pressure of deadlines.
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Highly effective oral and written communication skills. Ability to document technical issues and analysis results at the appropriate detail, for the appropriate audience.
• Strong collaborative skills with functional area management, business analysts and IT staff.
• Ability to proactively seek analysis opportunities and needs.
• Ability to work/communicate with all levels of management – must be comfortable interacting with senior management

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Development (30%)

• Design, code, test and troubleshoot programs util