What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Analyst position at Utica First Insurance Company?
Oriskany, NY
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Utica First Insurance Company has been serving the insurance needs of families and businesses for over 100 years. We have a dedicated “team” of employees and offer continuing opportunity for personal career growth.
Utica First Insurance Company is currently seeking an Applications Analyst for our Oriskany, NY location.
An Analyst will perform project coordination and planning, system analysis, documenting of business requirements, and programming to facilitate the creation and maintenance of projects, software programs and systems procedures that meet the needs of Management and company departments of Utica First Insurance Company.
Reports To: IT Applications Supervisor
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm (OT as necessary)
Responsibilities Include but are not limited to:
- Experience with reporting applications (Pentaho, Business Objects, Sisense, Power BI)
- Experience with database technologies (SQL, Oracle, Relational Database, Analytics)
- Design, architect & develop integrations with other systems or repositories Knowledgeable in preparing and executing User Acceptance Test
- Knowledgeable of Web Applications (browser-based clients & server-side code) using Solid Design Principals
- Experience with Windows Server environments
- Knowledge of PowerShell and Unix Shell Scripting
- Knowledge of Web Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
- Knowledge of SSAS, SSIS, SSRS
- Excellent organizational, verbal, and writing skills and the ability to perform well under pressure
- Support project coordination, business analysis, programming and implementation of certain large-scale projects assigned by their superior.
- Work with business personnel, IT personnel and vendors to analyze and define specifications for new projects, interfaces, software maintenance/changes, and software implementation. This includes file/table definitions, system flow/integration definitions, program specifications, testing, estimate of programming time and resources required.
- Work on the development of integrations with outside parties or systems. Ensure vendor supplied software changes and corrections are implemented accurately and in a timely fashion.
- May be involved with user acceptance testing.
- Provide documentation for all new configuration, programming and procedural instructions for work that has been completed.
- Ability to work in a team environment with minimal direction.
- Inform their superior of configuration deployment changes to test and production environments.
- Maintain current log of outstanding projects, work in progress, and project status.
- Must be disciplined, highly detailed oriented and reliable with good organizational and problem solving skills.
- Responsible for attending any education classes or seminars to help further advance your knowledge of systems, software, and/or the insurance business. This may be at a vendor’s recommendation or directed by the department Manager.
- Complete work request ticket and move to production sheets on new and/or modified programs and procedures within applicable tracking system.
Requirements
Experience requirements:
- Advanced knowledge of programming and analysis skills.
- Knowledge and proficiency in developing specifications and writing structured programs.
- Knowledge of Oracle, MS SQL, relational database, XML, Java, HTML, Web-based technologies.
- Requires strong customer service skills and a positive attitude.
- Team first mentality
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science or related required. Strong understanding of insurance operations, policy lifecycle, and regulatory environment.
Hybrid Work Model - This position will be on site with the ability to work remotely part time.
Utica First offers a competitive salary and benefits package to include:
- Competitive starting salary
- Medical (first of following month)
- Dental
- Vision
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Company paid LTD
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Matching 401(k) Plan
- Roth 401k Plan
- Bonus program
- Generous Vacation, Sick and Personal Leave
- Generous holidays (to include Birthday)
- Business casual environment
Pay Range:
The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be generally within the posted range but could differ dependent on the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experiences, location etc. as determined throughout the selection process.
Salary Description
$80,000-$110,000
Salary : $80,000 - $110,000