Developer Mastery

the Client•Spring Field, MA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Financial is seeking a senior calculation systems Developer/Architect to support technical discovery and modernization planning for the enterprise calculation platform. The role will assess the existing DXC VP/MS-powered calculation ecosystem, understand Financial customizations, evaluate upgrade options for Financial Design GUI and the calculation engine, and help define a future-state service-based architecture. Financial is evaluating upgrades to Financial Design GUI, report generation capabilities, and the calculation engine currently powered by DXC VP/MS with Financial customizations. The target direction is to support a more modular, API-driven product calculation and rules capability that can be wrapped, abstracted, and incrementally modernized. AI-assisted analysis and development tools such as Claude AI and GitHub Copilot are expected to be used, where appropriate, to accelerate discovery, documentation, code analysis, and prototyping. The primary outcome is to produce actionable discovery findings, options, risks, dependencies, and roadmap recommendations for Financial planning and vendor alignment.

Requirements

10 years of enterprise software engineering, architecture, or legacy-system modernization experience.
Experience with product calculation engines, rules engines, pricing logic, projections, or highly configurable business rules platforms.
Stakeholder interviewing, requirement elicitation, process and dependency mapping, current-state documentation, gap/risk identification, and business-facing recommendations.
Strong understanding of APIs, service orchestration, data contracts, dependency mapping, and enterprise integration patterns.
Ability to reverse engineer older platforms, document technical debt, identify coupling, and recommend phased modernization options.
Experience in life insurance, annuities, illustrations, product definition, policy administration, or financial services technology.
Ability to translate technical findings into executive-ready recommendations, risks, and roadmap options.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with DXC VP/MS, Vantage, Assure Product, or comparable product/modeling platforms.
Experience with BIRT report engine configuration, templates, data sources, rendering, or modernization, along with O365 expert knowledge.
Practical use of Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools for code analysis, refactoring, documentation, and POC acceleration.
Experience designing modular product services, calculation services, decision services, or strangler-pattern modernization approaches.

Responsibilities

Analyze the technical architecture of the existing calculation platform, including VP/MS model usage, integration points, data inputs, and calculation outputs.
Reverse engineer Financial-specific customizations, interfaces, and dependencies around the DXC VP/MS-powered calculation engine.
Perform BA-style discovery with business and technical stakeholders to capture requirements, pain points, current-state flows, and decision points.
Evaluate technical upgrade paths for Financial Design GUI and related calculation authoring or modeling capabilities.
Assess API, service, batch, reporting, and downstream integration touchpoints that depend on calculation outputs.
Partner with BIRT reporting SMEs to understand report engine integration points, data dependencies, and upgrade considerations.
Identify candidate areas for wrapping, abstraction, modularization, or replacement using product rules, pricing, projection, and scenario services.
Use Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, and approved tools to accelerate code analysis, documentation, and proof-of-concept work.
Use Financial SME input to accelerate current-state discovery and validate understanding of business rules, calculation flows, reporting dependencies, and platform constraints.
Partner with Product Owners and Calculation SMEs/Leads to clarify product behavior, actuarial logic, customizations, validation expectations, and business priorities.
Partner with Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects to align findings with target-state architecture, modernization patterns, API/service direction, and sequencing options.
Document questions, assumptions, decisions, risks, dependencies, and open items in a format that Financial SMEs can review and confirm.
Do not independently define future-state recommendations without Financial SME review; recommendations should be co-developed and grounded in Financial architecture, product, and operational context.