Sr Programmer Analyst III

American National Insurance•League City, TX

1d•$149,718 - $181,600•Onsite

About The Position

American National Group Services LLC is seeking a Sr. Programmer Analyst III to join their team. This role involves researching, designing, and developing computer applications, analyzing user needs, and determining the feasibility of designs within time and cost constraints. The position requires developing or directing software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation. The Sr. Programmer Analyst III will work on complex analysis and design assignments, requiring significant initiative and independent judgment. This role involves understanding business requirements and translating them into system requirements, producing technical specifications, and coding readable, reliable, and maintainable programs across multiple platforms. The individual will prepare initial problem definitions, define project scope and objectives, determine specific requirements, and design system solutions. They will also lead and/or provide guidance to junior team members, perform unit and system testing, review test results, and identify and rectify coding errors. The role includes obtaining approval and submitting documentation for migration to production, recording time and status for billing, and responding to production issues as part of an on-call rotation. Additionally, the Sr. Programmer Analyst III will provide analytical support for system maintenance, follow corporate project management standards, prepare detailed definitions of proposed solutions (including database design, screen and report definitions, data flow, transaction processing requirements, system interfaces, and program specifications), and develop estimates of time and cost. The role also involves documenting conversion approaches, task sequences, and dependencies for implementation plans, designing manual procedures and user documentation, and providing user training.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field.
5 years experience in a software engineer or analyst related position.
Experience with modeling and designing business processes using IBM BPM/BAW to streamline and automate workflows.
Experience designing and developing Heritage Human Services (HHS) and Client-Side Human Services (CSHS) using UI toolkit to create responsive, efficient, and scalable user interfaces for business processes.
Experience implementing event monitoring using intermediate events like UCA and timers to manage process flow and handle time-based actions effectively.
Experience implementing and managing external services, exposed automation services to enable seamless data exchange, service orchestration, and end-to-end process automation between various systems.
Experience as part of on-call and production support, restoring failed process instances promptly, performing root cause analysis to identify issues and providing workarounds and closing tickets.
Experience utilizing IBM BPM features including tracking groups, saved searches to monitor performance and create dashboards for business to streamline task management.

Responsibilities

Research, design, and develop computer applications.
Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation.
Work on complex analysis and design assignments where significant initiative and independent judgement is required.
Understand business requirements and relate these to the supporting system requirements to produce technical specifications.
Code readable, reliable and maintainable programs in any of the variety of programming languages on multiple platforms to support the team's assigned systems.
Prepare the initial problem definition, define the project scope and objective, determine the specific requirements to be satisfied and design system solutions for all levels of service requests.
Lead and/or provide guidance to junior team members.
Perform unit and system testing using test plans and scripts approved by the business.
Review test results with the business and make the necessary adjustments to the deliverables.
Identify and rectify errors in coding quickly, showing initiative and a proactive approach.
Obtain approval and submit proper documentation for migration to the locked-up production environment.
Record the time and status to the appropriate projects or support activity for billing.
Respond promptly to production issues by serving on an on-call rotation for the 24-hour support of the team's systems, making decisions that will positively influence the up-time and full recovery of the team's systems from outages.
Provide analytical support for the ongoing maintenance of developed systems.
Understand and follow current corporate project management standards.
Prepare detailed definitions of proposed solutions which includes: database design; screen and report definitions; data flow; detailed transaction processing requirements; definition of system interfaces; detailed program specifications; designing system test cases.
Develop estimates of time and cost for the development and ongoing operation of proposed service requests and prepare analysis to show economic payout for the system.
Document conversion approach, task sequences and dependencies for implementation plans.
Design and develop manual procedures and user documentation and provide user training in the use of the developed system.
Restore failed process instances promptly, perform root cause analysis to identify issues and provide workarounds and close the tickets.
Utilize IBM BPM features including tracking groups, saved searches to monitor performance and create dashboards for business to streamline task management.