Senior Software Engineer

Summary

FINEOS are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who has excellent design and java development programming skills. The successful candidate must have an aptitude for considering the bigger picture, the knowledge to consider all options, the innovation to select the best solution, and the determination to take the solution to completion, while maintaining a focus on delivering quality and value to the customer.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will join our highly skilled Product Consultancy team, working on FINEOS AdminSuite and New Business and Underwriting implementation projects. As part of a project team, working in conjunction with our customer s, you will develop customer specific extensions and configuration to our core FINEOS AdminSuite product. You will be responsible for writing Java software, developing web service integrations and implement solution upgrades as well as providing development consultancy to our customers on how to implement FINEOS product solutions and mentoring of more junior Java developers.

All our Software engineers work closely and collaborate with other developers, testers, business and technical consultants and other cross functional team members, adhering to our standards and processes. Our implementation projects generally follow the principles of Agile methodologies, working primarily as part of either a FINEOS or a Customers implementation scrum team.

Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned.)

• Working as a member of a team or on their own to deliver high quality and maintainable software solutions, to strict deadlines.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision, relied upon for critical tasks and accept leadership roles when called upon to do so.
• Participate in the software development lifecycle; technical analysis and design, development and unit test phases.
• Interacting with internal and external customers of the organisation, to clarify requirements, design and develop solutions.
• Mentoring of less experienced staff where appropriate e.g. development best practices, peer review of designs, code and tests.
• Working effectively with Test Engineering Team to resolve open issues in an efficient manner.
• Ability to identify, deliver and drive improvements and innovations within the development area.
• Compile and review estimates around all technical aspects of a solution

• Ensure all aspects of good design and construction are delivered, including:

• Performance, scalability and security
• Modularity, interoperability and upgradability

• Work with peers within the client organization to ensure a successful delivery.

• Work closely with the Lead Technical and Business Consultants to review requirements.
• Provide detailed planning and tracking information to Scrum Masters, Development leads and Project management.
• Work closely with Solution Architects for direction and compliance.
• Deploy FINEOS solutions to AWS, in house and onsite.
• Advanced Troubleshooting of FINEOS solutions
• Promote and live the FINEOS values and increase positive relations with team, customers, prospects, and partners

Education and/or Experience

• A relevant third level qualification

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong experience in a technically challenging development role
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Reviewing estimates around all technical aspects of a solution
• Creating readable, reliable and maintainable code and come up to speed quickly on new technologies.
• Experience of working in a vendor environment with appreciation of the customer deliverables an advantage
• IT Background in insurance or financial sectors would be an advantage
• Providing detailed planning and tracking information to project management

Technical Skills

• Strong JAVA development skills

• including J2EE technologies such as:

• JSP, JMS, JNDI, Javascript, AngularJS, React.
• XML and JSON related technologies
• Application servers: JBOSS, Websphere Weblogic, Tomcat
• Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server

• Development Tools:, Gradle/Groovy, Apache Ant, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Junit, Eclipse, Subversion/GIT, Docker.

• Experience using one or more of the following middleware and integration technologies: SOAP (over HTTPS/JMS), REST, WebsphereMQ, SOA, AquaLogic (Oracle Service Bus)

• Experience of working with Cloud technologies eg AWS would be an advantage.
• Good general technical knowledge, focus on quality with an appre…