Application Developer

QBE Insurance Group • Fargo, ND

74d • $72,000 - $108,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The purpose of this role is to deliver technical solutions for key stakeholders' business requirements by analyzing business needs, developing effective applications, conducting user acceptance testing and troubleshooting errors to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of developed programs. This role is for developing enhancements, features, and bug fixes in our releasing code. We use Visual Studio, TFS, and C#, .Net for our development tools (Microsoft stack). We use Oracle as our main database technology, ESRI for our mapping applications. We develop apps for Windows (WPF), Mobile (Xamarin), and Web (Angular, WebAPI) for Policy Holders, Agents, Adjusters, and other internal staff.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 5+ years relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Generate or adapt technology to serve user needs
• Design, set-up, operate, and correct malfunctions involving application of technological systems
• Assist with defining a project's scope
• Clearly and confidently convey information to internal and external stakeholders
• Assume a methodical approach to evaluate situations; effectively and efficiently present logic, reasoning, and analysis to others
• Conceptualize and innovate creative solutions; escalate issues when necessary
• Understand team dynamics and utilize the individual strengths of each member to achieve results
• Collaborate with people at different levels within the organization to accomplish a common goal
• Multi-task and handle competing priorities; adjust plans, goals, actions or priorities to meet changing situations
• Act with a sense of urgency
• Adapt and be flexible in a complex, changing environment
• Participate in continuing education related to the job

Responsibilities

• Deliver effective applications for business use by analyzing business requirements and consulting with key stakeholders to clarify and ensure program specifications and technical solutions align with business needs
• Build applications by translating specifications into programming language and forecasting solutions to anticipated problems to ensure effectiveness of programs for business use
• Foster a thorough approach to finalizing developed applications by participating in testing of functionality and analyzing sample data-sets to ensure accuracy of program output and support the achievement of quality assurance and key stakeholder standards
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders by participating in design and code reviews and escalating issues to troubleshoot errors and gaps, refine processes and technical standards and ensure continual effectiveness of team deliverables
• Provide accurate record-keeping by writing detailed documentation for the operation of programs to facilitate user understanding of application functioning
• Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to reward performance and value 'can do' people, accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity and fun

Benefits

• Hybrid Working - a mix of working from home and in the office
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education
• Employee Network and Community - QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees