AVP, Software Development, Modernization Lead

Title:

AVP, Software Development, Modernization Lead

Company:

Everest Global Services, Inc.

Job Category:

Technology

Job Description:

About Everest

Everest Group, a NYSE listed S&P 500, is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years. Everest is a growth company offering Property, Casualty and Specialty products. We have extensive product and distribution capabilities backed by a strong balance sheet which is evident in our Financial Agency Ratings of: A+ A. M. Best, A+ S&P Global and A1 Moody’s Investor Service.

We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial, and responsive. Our culture is innovative, we empower our employees to make business decisions within our risk framework at a local level.  

At Everest, we are committed to the development of our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. You will benefit from career development and learning opportunities that will let you set career goals and fulfill them, including:

•          Generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement

•          Mentoring opportunities

•          Flexible work arrangements

•          Talent development initiatives

•          Networking groups

Job Summary:

Everest Group is looking for a Modernization Lead to support the modernization of Everest’s Pricing Applications to join our Warren, NJ office. The candidate will provide results-oriented guidance in modernizing the pricing applications, resolving system issues, delivering modifications and enhancements. They will closely communicate and coordinate with business partners in prioritization of work to ensure timely resolution of issues and enhancements, while ensuring changes are in line with the Global system template.  Additionally, they will ensure process controls are followed and documented properly to ensure system stability, performance, and functionality.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Build and implement complex, large-scale high performing pricing applications capable of integrating with multiple internal/external systems.

• Lead & Mentor a team of software engineers to build quality software solutions aligned to architecture guidelines.

• Engage in and lead development efforts across the full SDLC from design and coding through test, QA, deployment, and maintenance.

• Leverage experience with cloud infrastructure to build cloud-based software solutions and support the applications on Cloud.

• Collaborate with senior leadership and business stakeholders to understand business requirements and convert into technical stories and software solutions.

• Develop proofs of concept (POCs) with new technology stack and implement well-designed, high performing, scalable, and testable code.

• Serve as technical lead for team of Engineers and make sure they have what is needed to perform their jobs, manage their work, motivate them to perform their duties well, and monitor performance.

• Conduct code reviews, guide engineers to how to refactor code to ensure optimized, fully functional applications.

• Define and manage repository of digital architecture assets (APIs, Services) and coordinate effective reuse across the digital enterprise.

• Explore and evaluate new /open source technologies for use within the digital enterprise to foster innovation and influence speed to market.

Qualifications, Education & Experience:

• 16+ years of hands-on, full-stack development experience building end to end software applications utilizing the Microsoft technology stack: C#, .Net Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, XML, XSLT, Entity Framework, LINQ, Microservices, Single Page Application - Angular, React.

• Reinsurance or Insurance background required; experience in implementing underwriting or pricing applications.

• Deep understanding and solid experience of SQL Server, Cosmos DB, including database design models, database performance optimization and the ability to develop and maintain PL/SQL Packages, Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions in SQL Server.

• Previous experience with cloud solutions (Azure preferred) along with experience configuring Dev-Ops / continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Git, Jenkins and/or Maven.

• Experience in building scalable and high performing applications with large data sets involving actuarial models.

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