at Zurich American Insurance Company in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Zurich (Schaumburg, IL) seeks a Lead Developer to be responsible for leading modernization of the core commercial insurance applications as well supporting the existing applications on the path to modernization. Specific duties include: analyze existing applications, analyze customers' needs and design, document, test, and develop software; analyze programs to ensure that they are efficient, recommend appropriate changes; work with coding and quality checks of program code, test plans/results, related objects, and documentation; conduct preliminary estimates / Rough Order of Magnitude for the level of effort of new/change to application functionality; design and develop documentation of proposed procedures and systems; perform preliminary evaluation of packaged software; support the implementation activities, troubleshoot system environmental issues, and provide training; respond to Production Support issues; monitor and audit the work of junior staff to ensure that it meets installation standards, design specifications, efficiency, and accuracy; and develop simple business cases for defined projects to determine potential benefits, clarify the rationale for investment and support the planning process. Position requires a certification on cloud hosting (AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AZURE Certification). Position requires occasional travel within the U.S. Option to work remotely is available.
Position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a closely related field of study, plus 5 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Senior Applications Consultant, or similar position in the IT Development area. Must have 5 years of experience with each of the following: working in cloud-based application development AZURE and AWS in latest .Net Core frameworks and deployment stacks including Kubernetes cluster with Jenkins; working with REST API Services with near real time-based integration using Rabbit MQ; setting up AWS and AZURE resources for generation and process of the data files including for data migration or transfer to another system; working with SQL, including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL; and working with NOSQL database tools, including Cassandra, AWS Dynamo DB, and Raven DB. Specific experience must also include: leading development work related to industry-specific solutions based on Customer needs; leading development team in trouble shooting defects called in by users; working with the architecture and BA teams to design new integrations within the underwriting landscape; and performing code reviews and validating recommended solutions by other developers. Must have a certification on cloud hosting (AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AZURE Certification). Must be willing to occasionally travel within the U.S. Option to work remotely is available.
Full time position. Apply by submitting your resumes at Zurichna.com/en/careers, Job ID: 104036
