Calculations Systems Developer

Title Calculations Systems Developer Location New York, NY & Boston, Springfield, MA - Hybrid Duration 4+ months Contract

Summary :

Financial is seeking a senior calculation systems Developer/Architect to support technical discovery and modernization planning for the enterprise calculation platform. The role will assess the existing Client VP/MS-powered calculation ecosystem, understand Financial customizations, evaluate upgrade options for Financial Design GUI and the calculation engine, and help define a future-state service-based architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the technical architecture of the existing calculation platform, including VP/MS model usage, integration points, data inputs, and calculation outputs.
• Reverse engineer Financial-specific customizations, interfaces, and dependencies around the DXC VP/MS-powered calculation engine.
• Perform BA-style discovery with business and technical stakeholders to capture requirements, pain points, current-state flows, and decision points.
• Evaluate technical upgrade paths for Financial Design GUI and related calculation authoring or modeling capabilities.
• Assess API, service, batch, reporting, and downstream integration touchpoints that depend on calculation outputs.
• Partner with BIRT reporting SMEs to understand report engine integration points, data dependencies, and upgrade considerations.
• Identify candidate areas for wrapping, abstraction, modularization, or replacement using product rules, pricing, projection, and scenario services.
• Use Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, and approved tools to accelerate code analysis, documentation, and proof-of-concept work.

Required Skills:

• Engineering depth 10+ years of enterprise software engineering, architecture, or legacy-system modernization experience.
• Calculation systems Experience with product calculation engines, rules engines, pricing logic, projections, or highly configurable business rules platforms.
• BA/discovery skill set Required for all Developer candidates as well: stakeholder interviewing, requirement elicitation, process and dependency mapping, current-state documentation, gap/risk identification, and business-facing recommendations.
• Integration architecture Strong understanding of APIs, service orchestration, data contracts, dependency mapping, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Legacy assessment Ability to reverse engineer older platforms, document technical debt, identify coupling, and recommend phased modernization options.
• Insurance technology Experience in life insurance, annuities, illustrations, product definition, policy administration, or financial services technology.
• Communication Ability to translate technical findings into executive-ready recommendations, risks, and roadmap options.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• VP/MS or client platforms Hands-on experience with Client VP/MS, Vantage, Assure Product, or comparable product/modeling platforms.
• BIRT reporting & Office 365 Experience with BIRT report engine configuration, templates, data sources, rendering, or modernization. Along with O365 Expert knowledge.
• AI-assisted engineering Practical use of Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools for code analysis, refactoring, documentation, and POC acceleration.
• Cloud/API modernization Experience designing modular product services, calculation services, decision services, or strangler-pattern modernization approaches.