Contract

The Senior UI Developer develops, implements, and maintains software solutions that enable business operations to realize company goals & objectives.

• Performs analysis, design, coding, debugging, testing, and support of the most complex and/or larger impact software application systems.
• May be assigned to develop new applications/systems, enhance/upgrade existing systems or provide production support.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to less experienced peers, has authority to assign work tasks and review work products of lower level peers.
• Assists the department manager/director in developing processes and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with Agile Program Manager (APM), Digital Product Manager (DPM), and Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications and translate them into engineering artifacts, which typically include design specifications, source code, test scripts and test results.
• Consults with enterprise architects to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with Enterprise Architecture principles and software development best practices.
• As part of Agile teams, completes complex software development work involving creative application of design, coding and debugging methods and techniques. Keeps Agile team and APM updated on product status.
• Coordinates schedules and timelines with testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately. Proactively collaborates with testers to develop action plans and solutions to address scheduling issues that arise.
• Utilizes high level software development expertise to provide guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives.
• Manages engineering risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues, devising methods to mitigate them and collaborating with involved parties to implement solutions.
• Leads architecture and design discussion. Interface with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
• Provides input to APM/DPM in creation of Product Roadmap, High Level Estimates
• Supports business units in the resolution of in-depth user questions and issues.
• Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and software engineering standards & practices.
• Collaborates with IT management to define and develop documentation & engineering artifact standards, guidelines, processes, and templates.

Technical Skills:

• Required - Development Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Required - Knowledge and experience working with 3rd party APIs
• Required -knowledge and skills would typically be acquired through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or related field plus 8 or more years of related experience.
• Expert level knowledge of theoretical and practical application of highly specialized software engineering best practices methods and techniques.
• Extensive experience in developing software applications on the assigned software platform or technology
• Extensive knowledge of source code change management and related tools.
• Advanced analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Strong customer service skills in order to provide end user/business owner systems support.
• Strong understanding of client-side software, scalability, performance, and reliability skills
• Knowledge and experience using Agile software development principles, process and tools.
• Advanced knowledge of Integrated Software Development Environments (IDE) relevant to assigned technology.
• Knowledge and development experience with common frameworks such as Angular is required.
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment tools like Octopus deploy, Jenkins
• Experience with container orchestration tool such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes (Openshift) is nice to have.
• Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data is a plus
• Knowledge of AWS development and deployment is nice to have.
• Excellent interpersonal, and written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent communication skills: Excellent command of the English language, i.e. Ability to write and understand the written documents, email and other forms of electronic communications. Ability to discuss, articulate and simplify technology to non-technical people.