What are the responsibilities and job description for the Magic-XPA developer position at Intuites?
Job Description
Role: Magic-XPA developer
A self-starter senior developer who can transform conceptual thoughts into multiple possible approaches. The person should be able to work with the Product Owner and business partners such as Accounting, Finance, Investment, Actuaries, and Operations to understand business requirements and develop Annuity products.
Candidate should have
Over ten years of development experience in policy administration systems using the programming language Magic-XPA.
Over ten years of design and development of databases such as Oracle.
Must have programming experience with Unix shell scripts.
Working experience in Transcend system is preferred.
Working experience of development methodology such as Agile.
Open mindset for continuous improvement and to align with business initiatives.
Loma certification in Annuity is preferred.
Candidate will
Work with business partners, business analysts, and product owner to design and build product.
Work with system administrators such as Database, Unix, Windows, Securities to ensure product design complies with Guardian standards.
Collaborate with support, release, and QA team to test and deploy code.
Collaborate with leaders to refine and estimate epics for business priority.
Server as a leader to reduce production defects by continuously enhancing process of development and testing.
| No. | Vendor Question | Guardian Response |
| 1 | How important is policy administration and/or Annuity products/business knowledge? | It will be optimal to have Transcend experience which is policy admin. If not Transcend, business knowledge of any Annuity platform is fine. |
| 2 | Is Magic-XPA required, or would you accept anyone with low code platform programming experience? | Magic-XPA is a must. |
| 3 | Would you accept another DB experience other than Oracle? | Yes, Any other DB experience is fine. |
| 4 | Will this be an on-site position or is remote-option a possibility? | On-site is available for the Bethlehem, PA Guardian Office. |
| 5 | Can we consider US, Canada and Mexico for onsite position? | See above |
| 6 | Please outline the technologies currently used for annuity today? | Magic-XPA, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix |