Lead Systems Developer
About The Position
RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all. Leads team and independently designs, develops, tests, implements, documents, and supports enterprise systems and technologies, including configuration, reporting, and security. Possesses an effective understanding of the enterprise systems and leverages knowledge of business functions, technologies and processes to execute responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent education/ experience - Required
- 8+ years enterprise systems programming experience - Required
- 8+ years SQL database experience.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies
- 4+ years of ERP experience - Required
- Demonstrated ability to lead small teams.
- Advanced interpersonal skills, including the ability to build consensus - Required
- Advanced ability to solve complex problems, drawing upon creativity, experience, and multiple sources of information - Required
- Advanced communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex or difficult information - Required
- Java or C# - Required
- Web design, HTML, CSS - Required
- ANSI SQL - Required
- Multi-tier application experience - Required
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) - Preferred
- PeopleSoft GL, AP, AM, PO, TE, SQL Server, Oracle, OneStream, Markit, Workday, ServiceNow, Hyland OnBase - Preferred
- Insurance and/or reinsurance industry knowledge - Preferred
Responsibilities
- Leads small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements, and develops detailed work plans
- Works closely with business and IT stakeholders to gain user acceptance of application updates and integrations by defining business requirements and leading users through acceptance testing.
- Designs, develops, and maintains applications and integrations by creating, managing, and executing business requirements, technical design documents, and test plans.
- May manage four or fewer employees with respect to a project or a system, and responsible for team's performance; coaches and mentors team members
- Creates documentation and leads team through architecture reviews.
- Develops estimates and capacity plans for general support and projects
- Manages the operational efficiency scorecard for supported systems
- Seeks continuous quality improvements for supported systems; Works with vendor to provide a multi-year road map for supported systems
- Creates and implements effective metrics and monitoring processes
- Recommends improvements and applies standards, processes, and procedures for enterprise systems
Benefits
- annual bonus plan
- long-term equity incentive plan
- full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
