This person will serve as an influential intermediary between the assigned business clients and the development and other teams in the IT function, and requires a developing knowledge of both environments.

• Work directly on smaller projects or as a team member on larger ones.
• Play an advocacy role for the business clients in all phases of the complex solution development life-cycle for each of the critical stages, including: initiation, analysis, development, testing, implementation and post implementation follow up.
• Perform analysis and work closely with the business clients to identify core business issues in order to map out possible solutions. The mapping is used to develop the business case for action, defining the need, the method, and the benefits of proposed solutions.
• Undertake complex analysis to develop the detailed user stories or requirements of the solution in order to satisfy the business need.
• Work closely with Architects and others on the applications development team to refine the solution design, methods and outcomes.
• Work very closely with the testing team, using the user stories or requirements document as a critical guide, to ensure that issues are identified and fully resolved prior to roll out.

Qualifications :

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering.
• 3+ years’ experience in distributed programming technologies such as Java, and/or python in application development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Experience with Cloud(Azure) Deployment.
• Expertise in Python based framework like Django, Flask.
• Software version management and Git repository.
• Knowledge of business and technology practices and trends.
• Ability to gather and analyze information and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
• Ability to design, code, test, debug and document a large range of technologies and systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, adaptable and flexible.
• Good interpersonal / relationship management skills, able to foster working relationships within the team, across IT and with business colleagues.
• Exposure to VSTS (preferred), Rally or similar agile backlog management tools.
• Strong passion for technology.
• Knowledge and application of various software development life-cycles and techniques (e.g., traditional, iterative, agile).
• Insurance and/or finance experience a plus.