Insurance Software Developer/Consultant

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Insurance Software Developer/Consultant

Business Agility is entering an exciting growth period and actively looking for highly motivated, client-facing, insurance software developers to join our exceptional team.

Our team delivers business transformation through unrivalled technical expertise developing mission-critical, scalable applications.  The Developer/Consultant roles will manage Java/J2EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle. 

These roles offer:

Opportunities to work with new tools and technologies (such as cloud & blockchain)

Opportunities for greenfield development, shaping solutions and adding personal touches

Contemporary development practices (including CICD & containerisation)

Collaborative and experienced peer group who can provide support and direction

Opportunities to diversify your experience, such as:

creating spikes to validate an approach within the team, allowing peer review of solutions without mandating style or constraining thinking

translating business requirements into a modern, forward-thinking implementation using up-to-date tools and approaches

using continuous integration and delivery techniques to allow frictionless submissions for testing and product approval

researching the latest approaches to facilitate industry-disrupting transformational change

unfalteringly applying the highest of standards which are absolutely essential in creating best of breed software suitable for the insurance industry

Requirements

Our ‘must have' requirements are:

Insurance industry software development experience

Java development and JavaScript frameworks

Hands-on experience designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms

Object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns

Profound insight of Java and J2EE internals

Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, MS-SQL (or Oracle) and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

Experience in the Spring Framework (Core, Web Flow) and Spring Security

JDBC and event handling in Spring

Webservices Soap or Rest and Design patterns

Experience with test-driven development

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Strong work ethic and a keen desire to learn

The following points are not essential requirements, but they are valuable. If you meet these criteria in addition to the list above, you will probably be one of our top candidates:

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Adobe LiveCycle designer knowledge/experience

Mobile App/Wearable application and WebPortal knowledge/experience

Cloud platforms and technology knowledge (AWS/Azure)

Web front end development framework knowledge (ReactJS/Angular)

Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC)

Experience in Apache Camel, Apache Kafka, Talend and mule studio, CI/CD tools

Why Business Agility?

With over 20 years of rich experience, our fantastic teams have supported more than 100 insurers around the world in enhancing their digital capabilities, including Allianz, AXA, LV=, Lloyds, NFU Mutual, Towergate and Zurich. Our ethos is about getting it right first time.

A collegiate and collaborative culture

A flat structure, open-door policy and a success-orientated mindset

Every team member plays a key role in our success and everyone is highly valued

Ability to work both from home and on client site

Cross-training opportunities

Formal & informal mechanisms for development, recognition and reward

Company funded social events at least twice per year (C-19 permitting!)

Our package

Competitive basic salary

10% discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance (single, couple or family cover available)

Life assurance

Contributory pension

Holiday pay - 25 days (rising with service)

Company sick pay

Cycle to work scheme

Tech purchase scheme

Employee referral scheme

Eye tests

When it is safe to do so, you will likely be working on client site as a member of the delivery team and should be comfortable living away from home Monday to Thursday, for engagements that are not commutable.  When not on client site, you will normally be based from home.