Reinsurance System Developer

Partner Reinsurance Company; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Developer to enhance their reinsurance operations. In this pivotal role, you will support the technological needs of the operational team, ensuring efficient workflows and seamless operations. Your expertise in .NET and SQL will be crucial as you maintain and develop reinsurance applications, work closely with business analysts to deliver tailored IT solutions, and manage the SICS Reinsurance system. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and diverse environment while expanding your knowledge in the finance and insurance sectors. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this position is for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical solution development and maintenance.
• Proficiency in .NET and SQL is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain existing reinsurance applications and automated processes.
• Develop and extend functionalities of web-based services and applications.

Skills

.NET

SQL

PL/SQL

SQR

Docker

Oracle database

Cloud environment (Microsoft Azure)

DevSecOps

Agile frameworks

Education

Information Technology / Computer Science

5+ years of professional experience

Job description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.

Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger. Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success.

Job Description

About this job:

The Developer will play a crucial role in supporting the reinsurance managers and operational team’s technological needs, ensuring seamless operations and efficient workflows. This role involves supporting the SICS Reinsurance third-party application, developing and maintaining internal interfaces, batches and scripts that enhance productivity and streamline reinsurance systems.

SICS is a Reinsurance core system of the company, it requires to coordinate with many other IT teams (updating or extracting SICS data) across different locations and time zones.

About the role:

1. Contributes to maintain existing reinsurance applications and automated processes written in .NET, SQR and PL/SQL. This includes monitoring and troubleshooting to find the root cause when an issue occurs.
2. Contributes to extend functionalities of automated process and new web-based services and cloud-based applications. This includes to work closely with Business Analyst in order to design together the best IT solution to fulfill business requirements.
3. Be responsible for the development and unit tests.
4. Be responsible to prepare, organize and install new versions of SICS (either service pack or major version upgrade).
5. Be the technical contact reference with the SICS vendor.
6. The technical tasks are mostly back-end related (APIs, scripts, interfaces, database).

Qualifications

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining technical solutions.
• Proficiency in .NET and SQL is a must. Willingness to learn PL/SQL and SQR (SQL enhanced).
• Experience in containerized architecture using Docker.
• Experience and knowledge of Oracle database.
• Background in Software Engineering. Experience with Cloud environment (ideally Microsoft Azure), DevSecOps, Agile frameworks.
• Experience in the Finance/Insurance/Reinsurance industry is a plus.
• Appetite for Reinsurance business learning (very rich functional context).
• Experience on SICS Reinsurance system will be a strong plus as it is our main application. SICS is the leading reinsurance industry system.

Education/Further Requirements:

• Information Technology / Computer Science or equivalent education
• At least 5 years of professional experience
• Proficiency in English is a must (writing and speaking). All communications are in English.

Additional Information

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