Senior Application Developer

Location(s)

Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida, P&C-Butterfield Road-Downers Grove-IL-AAC, St. Louis, Missouri

Details

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer with more than 10 years of deep experience in software development, architecture, and full-stack solution delivery to join our Life Insurance technology team. You’ll play a key role in building scalable, secure, and cloud-native solutions that enable digital transformation across the Life Insurance LOB.

Position Responsibilities

• Experience in designing, building, and implementing large-scale software solutions in the Life Insurance industry, focusing on Policy Administration Systems & M2 on AWS.
• Delivers quality and timely results. 
• Identifies and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. Escalates problems beyond the level of expertise to manager, more experienced technical staff, or vendor representatives. 
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures. 
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction. 
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables. 
• Performs code and design reviews. 
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies. 
• Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed. 
• Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise. 
• Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall technical skill improvement of the organization. 
• Participates in daily site, cross-site and product team stand ups. 
• Able to read other team members code and pinpoint problems accurately. 
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product. 
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation. 
• Supports proof-of-concept activities. 
• Develop technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements. 

 
Position Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience, bachelor's degree, equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.

• Life Insurance experience preferred.

• Strong expertise in Java technologies including Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and React/JavaScript on the front end.

• Exposure to Informatica, Python, and Generative AI (GenAI).

• This role also requires solid experience in AWS cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, code quality practices using SonarQube, and automation using PowerShell and scripting.

• Strong knowledge and experience with Oracle database SQL, PL/SQL & Microfocus COBOL, VSAM, JCL.

• Experience in technical disciplines such as ESCWA, Microfocus Enterprise Developer, Control-M,Git/SVN, Jenkins.

• Optimize database queries, stored procedures, functions, and scripts to ensure performance efficiency.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana 

• The ability to provide technical leadership on large/complex application installation, development, and support projects; Advanced knowledge of program design methods and techniques and standard development tools.

• Use knowledge of new frameworks, tools and languages and make recommendations in applications as appropriate.

• Ability to understand and identify improvement areas in architecture and integration designs.

• Ability to teach and provide instruction to co-workers and provide feedback on progress toward goals.

• Demonstrates excellent leadership qualities in managing the work of a team of professional employees.

• Experience with cloud development practices.

• Able to follow and create best practice development standards.

• Worked with various project methodologies (agile and waterfall).

• Able to translate business to technical requirements.

• Requires minimal managerial direction.

• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.

• This position works at a Kemper office.

The range for this position is $86,200 - $120,900. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles.

Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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