Actuary Platform Developer Associate

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leader in the U.S. life insurance and annuity industry, serving the needs of individuals and institutions. Global Atlantic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management across multiple strategies and capital markets solutions. 

We are looking for a diverse team of talented individuals who reinforce our culture of collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to the career development of our people because we know they are critical to our long-term success. Join our team and come grow with us. 

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POSITION OVERVIEW  

The Actuary Platform Developer role partners with the Actuary team, IT data team and primary vendor to provide data development, support, and administration for the Actuarial Modeling/Data Management Platform.  This position will be accountable for managing the data lifecycle and development throughout the Actuarial Modeling process. 

Key responsibilities will include the following: 

• New Requests/Builds
• Collaborate with Actuary Model Development to support any data needs for models
• Collaborate with Actuary Valuation to support model analytics and approval workflow
• Define backlog items and requirements for IT Data team and other supporting IT areas
• Participate in testing and verification of technical solutions
• General Support
• Become a subject matter expert in Actuarial Modeling Platform Data Management capabilities 
• Is primary administrator of Actuarial Modeling Platform and appropriately manages required administrative tasks if needed
• Responsible for the regular maintenance, updates, fixes and upgrades. This could include testing after upgrade or facilitating UAT
• Ensures platform is running at optimal performance and levels
• Maintain application run books to ensure appropriate documentation exists
• Provide training to new and existing users on current and future functionality
• Production Process
• Manage and facilitate all incidents from Priority 1 to Priority 4, which includes, but not limited to, providing support to users of applications, responding to user-based questions, tickets and assists with troubleshooting issues within platform.
• Manage day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects or requests
• Provides on-call assistance as requested, for after-hours issues and support needs
• Resolve incidents if able to, otherwise escalate as needed (provide tier-2 incident response)

EDUCATION 

• An undergraduate degree in an IT related field or similar combination or education and experience.

SKILLS 

• General development skills with proven experience across 2+ programming languages
• General understanding of Life and Annuity insurance (Nice to have)
• Able to understand the business requirements in detail and work independently
• Bonus point for working experience with technology vendors & Actuaries
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal communication skills and documentation skills
• Proven Data management skills with understanding of Data flows across different platforms
• Able to manage work across a development team
• Work cross-functionally within IT, with an emphasis working with a data team
• Self-disciplined, able to work independently, but also able to take direction when necessary
• Self-motivated to identity and resolve issues and in advancing personal knowledge
• Hands on experience with GITLAB

EXPERIENCE 

• 8+ years’ experience in Data Integration and Data Management
• Experience working in cloud environments (Azure)
• General understanding of SAS programming
• Must have
• Experience in the following technologies –Azure HD, Azure Data Factory and PowerBI
• Experience in Data Integration and Data Management
• Experience understanding business requirements and translate it to technical code
• Able to lead small projects without significant help

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