Specialist, Business Technical Support

Lincoln Financial Group • Papillion, NE

247d • $53,500 - $96,300 • Remote

About The Position

As a Specialist, Business Technical Support, you will be part of a dynamic team and assist in the development of tools that the underwriting team and the sales organization will use for pricing group insurance products: LTD, STD, Life, etc. You will participate in the success of implementing the underwriting pricing tools.

Requirements

• 1-3+ years of experience
• 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelor's)

Nice To Haves

• Technical skills in SQL & VBA with the desire to take these skills to the next level.
• Experience working with version control systems (Git, etc.) preferred but not required.
• Experience with group insurance pricing/valuation/analytics preferred.
• Experience with the software development life cycle preferred.
• Curiosity and demonstrated capability to quickly learn new concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• An entrepreneurial mindset willing to take the lead and own key design decisions.
• Ability to think critically, identify potential challenges, discuss solutions, and validate results.
• Work with a sense of urgency while maintaining appropriate attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement high quality, robust pricing tools for the underwriters and the sales organization to price group insurance products.
• Collaborate and organize key discussions with various levels of management across Underwriting, Sales, Pricing, and IT to develop and maintain the pricing tools.
• Create, educate, and follow pricing tool standards and programming best practices.
• Ensure documentation of the tool design, coding, implementation, and training is kept up to date and available to onboard additional resources as needed.
• Implement data structures, design database functions and procedures, design tool development methodologies with separation of concerns, and coordinate the testing and the implementation of the pricing tools.
• Implement actuarial pricing formulas and strategies in the pricing tools.
• Understand and work with actuarial pricing methods and assumption development methods in order to suggest new ways of managing tool development and implementation risk.
• Maintain awareness of developments in the actuarial and technology industries.

Benefits

• Clearly defined career tracks and job levels, along with associated behaviors for each of Lincoln's core values and leadership attributes
• Leadership development and virtual training opportunities
• PTO/parental leave
• Competitive 401K and employee benefits
• Free financial counseling, health coaching and employee assistance program
• Tuition assistance program
• Work arrangements that work for you
• Effective productivity/technology tools and training

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree