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Application Developer Consultant
Allstate
Irving, TX, United States
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Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
The Opportunity
Encompass is a growing, $1B+ business that is part of the Allstate Corporation. Encompass sells and services personal insurance products exclusively through independent agencies. It has never been more exciting at Encompass than it is today. With Encompass’ growth and exciting opportunities, the Encompass Technology Organization is also growing.
The Encompass Technology Organization celebrates strategic thinking and leadership, creative problems solving, full engagement, and working together to serve our agents and policyholders, particularly in their times of greatest need. Our fast-paced environment embraces innovative thinking, continuous learning, and collaboration. We are a high-performance organization that believes in celebrating our employees’ efforts with a pay-for-performance approach, a competitive compensation package as well as opportunities for personal and professional growth. At Encompass, we understand that when our employees are at their best, so are we. That’s why we offer a variety of development and well-being programs to encourage and empower our employees. We are committed to helping each employee work and live to his or her full potential.
As part of the growth of the Encompass Technology Organization and to maintain our place at the forefront of the technological landscape, Encompass needs to hire the best and the brightest talent – is that you?
Job Responsibilities
The Application Developer Consultant II develops code for intermediate modules, participates in design reviews, conducts code reviews, creates test plans and participates in testing reviews, and resolves moderate defects. The Consultant II designs, documents, reviews, and maintains components of software solutions for intermediate projects.
Responsibilities include:
• Reviews detailed business, functional, and high-level technical requirements
• Participates in creating detailed design documents that support interface and technical design and meet solution requirements
• Participates and provides feedback in design reviews
• Generates and codes work units for simple to intermediate changes, enhancements, and modules per specifications and standards
• Accurately documents design and code fixes for all created code to memorialize fixes and dependencies per established standards
• Conducts timely structured code reviews to ensure standards and systems interoperability
• Prepares accurate data for test plan and modules; participate in testing reviews to identify possible issues
• Tracks and resolves simple to intermediate defects, identifies support issues and initiate action to resolve the problem
• Provides technical assistance to resolve moderately complex issues.
• Assists with change management activities supporting production deployment
Job Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Required:
• 1-3 years of application development experience, designing and building applications wth Java and Python
• GitHub experience
• Familiarity with IDE’s such as Eclipse, Rational Application Developer
• Excellent communication skills, team player
Preferred:
• Working experience in an Agile Scrum team
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
• Experience working with global teams
• Jenkins knowledge
• Insurance industry / business knowledge
• Strong understanding of relational databases
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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