IT Developer

At Allianz Life, we are driven by our mission – we secure your future – and by our common goal of caring for tomorrow. We care for our employees by promoting an inclusive culture where everyone has the opportunity to grow and be rewarded for their success. We care for our customers by creating new products that help them protect their families and pursue their retirement goals. We care for our community by giving time, resources, and donations. And we care for the future by supporting sustainability, protecting the local environment, and promoting societal equity.

Participate in the design, development and delivery of technology-enabled applications, products and services. Under general guidance and direction, oversee the delivery of technical solutions and ensure that the delivered solution meets the business requirements, design requirements and technical specifications.

What you do:

• Planning and execution:

o Participate in the conceptual design development, ensuring that the solution is viable and designed appropriately to solve the business case

o Provide support for the facilitation and review of estimates, development and deployment plans for all capabilities participating in the release in both Agile / Scrum and SDLC (Waterfall) projects

• Project process support:

o Assist more Senior Developers in providing/coordinating estimates for the development components required for the solution and overseeing design efforts across capabilities/systems

o Provide support to Project Managers to ensure design / build activities remain within project schedule / budget

o Act as a technical advisor to the Project Manager, QA lead and/or business

o Facilitate escalation and resolution of technical issues during the development of the solutions

o Responsible for supporting vendor work, delivery review and acceptance

• Communication:

o Responsible for assessing and communicating status of development activities based on summaries from System Analysts, Developers, vendors and other solution participants

o Support the maintenance and progression of development standards and currency of solution frameworks

• Design, document, code and conduct unit tests and de-bugging of software solutions and components

o Apply enterprise standards, application patterns and development best practices in solutions development/delivery

o Generally works with direction and guidance at designing and implementing timely, quality solutions

• Provide inputs in establishment of development standards and process. In partnership with technical experts, evaluate new solutions/tools/methodologies and provide feedback

• Own and ensure maintenance of technical solution diagrams and models

o Present solution alternatives as needed to operational leaders within IT and assigned business units

• Decompose complex problems into manageable work items for delivery of others

o Provide technical guidance and solutions regarding coding and design

o Resource on topics within scope of current role and knowledge base for development team members (FTE and vendors)

• Assess and recommend IT capability improvements for applications, including:

o Implementing, logging and monitoring at appropriate levels and driving upgrades to currently supported software.

What you bring:

Minimum:

• 2-3 years’ experience required

• Proven capabilities such as JavaEE, Spring integration and batch, MVC JSP debugging, JavaScript development, AJAX development, WebService development, SOAP and WSDL, XML, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SQL development, extensive debugging

Preferred:

• 4-5 years’ experience preferred

• Proven capabilities such as IBM MQ, WebSphere, Spring Batch, Spring IOC and Spring AOP, Linux/Unix background, C++

• Four-year degree in Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred