Job Title: Technical Specialist 3/TS3
Will close to submissions: Tuesday 5/8 @ 10AM
Interviews: Onsite interview is required
Background:
Candidate must have extensive proven experience as a versatile CA Gen software applications developer. The resource will be assigned to our Rates and Payments Solutions Development team working with a collaborative team of Gen developers and Business Process Analysts, contributing to the software development of many closely bundled actuarial as well as payment related components.
They will have responsibilities for the creation and unit testing of application code developed with CA Gen, Report Composer, Crystal Reports and SOA Composer. As a senior level resource, the candidate is expected to demonstrate they have the depth and range of required skills, knowledge and experience that is needed. They should also be a good problem solver, as they will be tasked to provide ongoing production support to the operation and functionality of the Rates and Payments application suite including being on call 24/7 on a rotating basis in addition to keeping up with their project workload.
Required Skills:
•CA Gen (version 7.x and up) development suite of tools consisting of (1) Windows Analysis, Design and Construction Toolsets (2) Windows Build Tool (3) Client Server Encyclopedia (CSE) (4) CSE Clients (5) CSE Construction Tool Set (6) MVS Implementation Toolset (7) Diagram Trace Utility to generate objects for the designed target environments as follows:
•COBOL batch modules & COBOL CICS servers targeted for IBM ZOS mainframe
•C++ clients (incl. OLE) targeted for a file server
•.NET Proxies & C# Servers targeted for Server 2008 (and up) that interop with ASP.NET)
•ASP.NET testing stubs targeted for Windows 7 (and up)
•Report Composer (version 8.x and up) to design and create (1) block mode reports (2) GUI reports and correspondence utilizing Crystal Reports (3) sequential file handlers
•Crystal Reports (version 11 and up) to design and create GUI reports and Correspondence utilizing Report Composer
•SOA Composer (version 8.x and up) to design and create coding web service interfaces
•Data structures and relational access methods DB2 (SQL, QMF, SPUFI), GDG and flat files
•TSO, FileManager and JCL
•Microsoft Office (2007 and up) with an emphasis on (1) Access – DB creation, importing and analysis of data (2) Excel – importing and analysis of data employing complex formulas and macros.
Required Experience:
8+ years experience in all the following:
• Developing business applications in the insurance or financial services industry.
• Collaborating with data analysts and functional/business process analysts in the development of highly normalized data models
• Constructing, testing, implementing and supporting CA Gen (4 ½ yrs version 7.x and up), Report Composer (4 ½ yrs version 8.x and up) and Crystal Reports (4 ½ y version 11 and up) application objects in the specified target environments using all the required skill sets as noted.
• Performance tuning CA Gen generated SQL against a highly normalized data architecture accessing large volumes of data.
Additional /Knowledge/Experience advantageous to this placement:
(please identify knowledge base and/or duration of experience for the following):
•Knowledge of actuarial principles in establishing rates and setting reserves.
•Knowledge of payment principles of authorization, distribution and electronic (EFT & EBT) and check disbursements.
•Knowledge of Worker’s Compensation insurance operations.
•Experience creating External Action Blocks.
•Experience with accessing Oracle Relational Data Bases.
