Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Application Developer with 10+ years of experience in the Life Insurance domain to support core insurance application development, system enhancements, product configuration, data migration and production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather, analyze and document business requirements from business users, Business Analysts and stakeholders.
- Translate business requirements into detailed Functional Specifications (FS) and Technical Specifications (TS).
- Perform requirement analysis, gap analysis, impact assessment and solution design for insurance application enhancements.
- Design, develop and maintain core Life Insurance applications using AS/400, LIFE400, GROUP400, COBOL/400 and CL/400.
- Configure and enhance insurance products, riders, benefits, claims rules, premium calculations and business rules.
- Support end-to-end product launches, system modernization and application enhancement initiatives.
- Develop and maintain database programs and queries using DB2/400 and SQL/400.
- Support data migration activities including source-to-target mapping, data validation, transformation and reconciliation.
- Develop and support REST API and system integration solutions.
- Work with MQ and other integration components for enterprise application interfaces.
- Coordinate coding, unit testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Perform code reviews, defect analysis, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Provide L2/L3 production support and resolve application incidents within agreed SLAs.
- Support production deployments, data fixes, system upgrades and post-production stabilization.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Business Analysts, developers, QA teams and business stakeholders.
- Maintain technical documentation, application specifications and operational procedures.
- Work in Agile/Scrum environments using tools such as JIRA, Confluence and ServiceNow.
Mandatory Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Application Development / Systems Analysis.
- Strong experience in theLife Insurance domain.
- Hands-on experience withAS/400 / IBM i environments.
- Strong experience inCOBOL/400 and CL/400.
- Experience withLIFE400 / GROUP400 / Smart/400or similar insurance administration platforms.
- StrongDB2/400 and SQL/400experience.
- Experience in insurance product configuration and core insurance application enhancement.
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
- Experience in requirements gathering and Functional/Technical Specification documentation.
- Hands-on experience with SIT/UAT and production support.
- Experience in data migration, data mapping and validation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
Experience Level
10+
Skills
AS/400 | IBM i | OS/400 | LIFE400 | GROUP400 | Smart/400 | COBOL/400 | CL/400 | RPG/400 | DB2/400 | SQL/400 | REST API | MQ | Data Migration | Product Configuration | Claims Processing | SDLC | Agile | SIT | UAT | JIRA | Confluence | ServiceNow