About Us
At Ogon Consulting, we transform the Professional Services experience for Insurers and Insurance Software companies led by deep industry experience and a mission for excellence in customer engagement. At Ogon, we foster collaboration, nurture a good work-life balance and take pride in our work and the success of our clients. We are growing fast! If you have experience in consulting, implementation and support of commercial off-the-shelf Insurance products (Life and/or P&C), we would love to talk to you.
Responsibilities
We are looking for enthusiastic individuals with experience in software development to work in our Technical Services team. You will work on a multi-disciplined project team and will be responsible for the configuration of one or more Insurance policy administration software for new and existing customers.
- Develop technical solutions to business problems; validate and communicate technical solutions with other team members, test solutions and ensure it meets specifications.
- Work with the business analysts to review requirements
- Analyze, estimate and communicate development work effort corresponding to the business requirements.
- Design, build, test deliveries of software configuration, enhancements and bug fixes
- Develop proof of concepts as needed.
- Provide ongoing production support for respective projects
- Document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as part of the regular support & maintenance activities.
- Collaborate closely with other cross-functional IT teams to define and implement effective and efficient solutions to business challenges and opportunities.
- Communicate and document the critical process &/or system functionality changes to the business users.
- Manage tasks, quality and delivery of technical team members.
- Participate in various stages of the software implementation life-cycle
- Ability to train and mentor other team members including client resources
Successful candidates for this role typically have:
- Prior work experience in Java/XML and related technologies.
- Experience in implementing packaged enterprise software
- Knowledge and working experience of Agile software development processes and SCRUM methodologies
- Strong coordination skills with the ability to multi-task and address multiple priorities.
- Demonstrate initiative in starting and completing multiple projects
- Ability to play a leading role in a client-billable resource team
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Develop significant application and related business requirements expertise.
Qualifications required for the role:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in CS or equivalent experience
- 6-10 years of software development of IT services (application development or support) experience
- Experienced working with Java environments like Apache Tomcat and databases like Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL is a plus
- Knowledge of Java Enterprise development
- Knowledge of scripting languages XML, HTML, Java Script, and Velocity
- Knowledge of Enterprise integration architectures such as SOA, RESTful, ETL
- Experience in software development with tools such as Enterprise Architect, Eclipse IDE, source version control with GitHub or CVS, and build tool ANT
- Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Teamwork is preferred
- Understanding of cloud-based services and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.) is preferred
- Financial application software and/or industry experience is preferred
- Life or Property and Casualty Insurance knowledge is a preferred
