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Senior Application Developer
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 Responsibilites
The Application Developer Sr Consultant I develops code for intermediate to complex modules, participates in design reviews, conducts code reviews, creates test plans and participates in testing reviews, and resolves moderate defects. The Sr Consultant I designs, documents, reviews, and maintains components of software solutions for intermediate complex projects.
Responsibilities include:
• Evaluates detailed business, functional, and high-level technical requirements
• Designs detailed technical components with high-level architecture
• Participates and provides feedback in design reviews
• Develops or confirms detailed project or system change estimates or project plans; calibrates estimating factors for continuous improvements
• Develops high quality code for intermediate modules, following documentation and development standards to program changes on schedule
• Creates enhanced technical documentation and implement changes
• Acts as a technical expert for Band B application developers
• Conducts timely structured code reviews to ensure standards and systems interoperability
• Creates accurate test plans, conditions, and data; participate in testing reviews, conducts testing,
tracks and resolves moderate defects
• Executes change management activities supporting production deployment to Developers, Quality Control Analysts, and Environment Management personnel
Job Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Required:
• 3-5 years of application development experience, designing and building applications
• 1-2 years of experience with Java and Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
• 1-2 years of Python development and basic skills in Oracle SQL, Unix
• 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
• 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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