Senior Application Developer

Location(s)

Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida, P&C-Butterfield Road-Downers Grove-IL-AAC, St. Louis, Missouri

Details

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer with more than 10 years of deep experience in software development, architecture, and full-stack solution delivery to join our Life Insurance technology team. You’ll play a key role in building scalable, secure, and cloud-native solutions that enable digital transformation across the Life Insurance LOB.

Position Responsibilities

• Experience in designing, building, and implementing large-scale software solutions in the Life Insurance industry, focusing on Policy Administration Systems & M2 on AWS.
• Delivers quality and timely results. 
• Identifies and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. Escalates problems beyond the level of expertise to manager, more experienced technical staff, or vendor representatives. 
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures. 
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction. 
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables. 
• Performs code and design reviews. 
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies. 
• Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed. 
• Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise. 
• Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall technical skill improvement of the organization. 
• Participates in daily site, cross-site and product team stand ups. 
• Able to read other team members code and pinpoint problems accurately. 
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product. 
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation. 
• Supports proof-of-concept activities. 
• Develop technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements. 

 
Position Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience, bachelor's degree, equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.

• Life Insurance experience preferred.

• Strong expertise in Java technologies including Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and React/JavaScript on the front end.

• Exposure to Informatica, Python, and Generative AI (GenAI).

• This role also requires solid experience in AWS cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, code quality practices using SonarQube, and automation using PowerShell and scripting.

• Strong knowledge and experience with Oracle database SQL, PL/SQL & Microfocus COBOL, VSAM, JCL.

• Experience in technical disciplines such as ESCWA, Microfocus Enterprise Developer, Control-M,Git/SVN, Jenkins.

• Optimize database queries, stored procedures, functions, and scripts to ensure performance efficiency.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana 

• The ability to provide technical leadership on large/complex application installation, development, and support projects; Advanced knowledge of program design methods and techniques and standard development tools.

• Use knowledge of new frameworks, tools and languages and make recommendations in applications as appropriate.

• Ability to understand and identify improvement areas in architecture and integration designs.

• Ability to teach and provide instruction to co-workers and provide feedback on progress toward goals.

• Demonstrates excellent leadership qualities in managing the work of a team of professional employees.

• Experience with cloud development practices.

• Able to follow and create best practice development standards.

• Worked with various project methodologies (agile and waterfall).

• Able to translate business to technical requirements.

• Requires minimal managerial direction.

• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.

• This position works at a Kemper office.

The range for this position is $86,200 - $120,900. When determinin