Strategy & Planning

• Orchestrate integration projects and corresponding strategies between business units and development teams.
• Plan, execute, and manage the integration of new applications into existing systems and software throughout the enterprise.
• Ensure that integration planning and practices are aligned with strategic business goals and the company’s overall strategic vision.
• Develop standards and processes to support and facilitate integration projects and initiatives.
• Collaborate with analysts and designers in the development and initiation of new software programs and applications.
• Participate in quality assurance of program logic, data processing, and error resolution.
• Develop an awareness of programming and design alternatives.
• Take an active role in cross-departmental projects when needed.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Plan phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) for a variety of projects.
• Assist in the preparation and documentation of software requirements and specifications.
• Research and document technical requirements of software users
• Research and make recommendations on integration products and services
• Lead solution alternative analysis to select application & build software solutions that the organization can leverage.
• Lead integration testing phase of software and applications under development in order to identify and remedy potential problem areas.

Operational Management

• Write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications.
• Ensure detail design specifications and unit test plans support high level design
• Ensure deliverables conform to best practices and internal standards
• Run and monitor software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging.
• Generate statistics and prepare & write reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines.
• Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior software developers and research assistants.
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements.

• Prior experience in the insurance industry required
• 7 years’ experience working with enterprise applications or architectural leadership role in building web based Java EE and/or Spring services/applications.
• Solid working knowledge of current technologies, including SOA or REST, web services, J2EE technologies, Spring, Hibernate
• Expertise with industry standard development tools (e.g. Eclipse, Subversion, etc.)
• Hands on experience working in integrated development environments.
• Extensive experience with application servers (Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, etc)
• Extensive experience with SQL, some DBA experience a plus
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
• Experience working with vendor applications and resources