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SQL Developer II - USA, Remote - $75,000 - $90,000

SQL Developer II

USA, Remote

$75,000 - $90,000

 

The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.

We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

 

The Engineer II App Dev will work as part of the Data & Reporting team under the direction of the Director of App Dev  and under the general guidance of a Lead App Dev Engineer. The position relies on experience and judgment to support, enhance and create Information Delivery solutions, requiring a broad degree of independence, knowledge and problem solving skills.

 

The ideal candidate for the EDID is a technical resource that has experience building comprehensive data solutions (cubes, dashboards, visualizations, reports/extracts, etc.) to present data from multiple source systems or models, transform data according to Business Rules and MDM, work with the Enterprise Data team to assure attributes are properly governed and also loaded into operational and presentation models.  The role is required to analyze sources of data, determine optimal reporting methodologies, map and model to operational and presentation layer data models, identify enhancements, and other needs relative to the Enterprise Data Services area.  The role additionally has input into Enterprise Data Services architecture, procedures and workflow.  The role is also expected to have a business acumen in order to provide effective and efficient solutions.  Individuals in this role are expected to have the ability to multitask on various projects and priorities and keep them all moving forward.  The role influences others in ITthrough sharing of specialized Enterprise Data Services technical knowledge. This role is expected to support and expand a culture of operational excellence. 

 

This position requires a technical individual that has the ability to communicate clearly with other IT professionals using technically sound terminology and excellent communication skills.

 

The ideal candidate will be a self starter working in a fairly autonomous environment.  They will need to have experience coding technically sound solutions following industry best practices specifically around Enterprise data presentation solutions.  This candidate will have the ability to work on multiple workstreams at any given time.  The candidate will possess institutional knowledge of the insurance and Enterprise Data Services industries in order to craft the most effective and efficient solutions for the business.  The ability to understand complex business needs, logical problem solving skills, and strong written and verbal communication skills are required.  Additionally, anunderstanding of database methodology and the MS BI stack are required.  

Reponsibilities:

o   Simultaneously address multiple units of work within a given timeframe/sprint to ensure timeline is adhered to, quality requirements are followed and acceptance criteria is met.

o   Use Microsoft BI stack (SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) to develop Data Integration solutions as part of the continued development and maturation of the Enterprise Data assets

o   Work with the Enterprise Data Services team to assure attributes are properly managed and governed via the Enterprise Data Governance process

o   Assure Data Integration solutions follow the department’s software development lifecycle processes and that all required artifacts and documentation have been created to support a seamless migration to the Enterprise Data Operations Support team

o   Demonstrate experience with ETL Methodologies, Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management and Project Management Disciplines

o   Deploy solutions with written implementation, test and back-out plans according to the change control process

o   Drive and own the necessary development tasks to support functional specifications

o   Provide assistance to tier 4 support for Enterprise Data Assets and other legacy data stores/solutions. (Note: Tier 1 support is our NOC, tier 2 support is off-shore, tier 3 support is onshore and tier 4 support are our Sr. and Lead Data Integration developers)

o   Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of Enterprise Data Assets and other legacy data stores/solutions architecture, processes and flow

o   Apply our Enterprise Data Services standards in all development to ensure consistency and quality of work product

o   Work within an agile environment following sprint commitments and release schedules

o   Additional Duties:

o   Actively participate in team meetings to support the group

o   Actively participate in the culture of excellence as part of a BI delivery team

o   Actively participate in team design reviews and co-operative architecture design sessions

o   Work directly with Sr Enterprise Information Delivery Developers, Enterprise Business Intelligence 

o   & Analytics Developers and Enterprise Business/Data Analysts on data requirements and quality assurance

o   Work efficiently and Effectively to ensure successful and timely completion of assigned project deliverables

o   Work with manager to effectively define and manage toward goals that impact personal, team and company related objectives 

o   Create and manage timelines for all Enterprise Data Integration team members

o   Drive and manage meetings that sole purpose is to communicate status of an individual team member’s project workload 

Work Experience, Education, Certification / Training Required:

o   Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certifications / experience required

o   2+ years IT development experience required.  Operational and/or Incident management experience a plus

o   1+ years of Business Intelligence application delivery using the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack (SSIS, SQL Server) a plus

o   Fundamental understanding of relational and dimensional databases required

o   Fundamental database and SQL experience required.  Microsoft T-SQL preferred

o   Experience working on a project team using a waterfall and/or agile SDLC methodology required (Agile preferred)

o   Hands on experience with Microsoft SQL Server preferred.  SQL Server 2012 Required and 2016 a plus

o   Experience in the Insurance industry and/or LOMA coursework; ALMI designation a plus

o   ITIL Foundation V3 Certification a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

o   Strong aptitude to pick up new skills and knowledge through research and perserverance

o   The adaptability to work in an everchanging and dynamic environment

o   Ability to think outside the box to provide innovative solutions 

o   Self-starter that can initiate research and/or contact with others in order to solve issues 

o   Embrace team environment and success

o   Technically capable to perform job responsibilities and passion for technical growth

o   Willingness not only to understand the technical nature of the task, but to build the subject domain knowledge around why the task is being done and how the results are being utilized by the business

o   Strong communication skills

 

The roles targeted salary range for this position is $75,000 to $90,000. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to, job location, skills, and experience. The range listed is just one component of our companies total compensation package for employees.

 

This position also offers additional incentive opportunities through an annual incentive based on individual and Company performance.

 

Employee Benefits:  

We aim to protect our employees' wellbeing through a broad benefits offering. For example, we protect physical wellbeing through health, dental and vision insurance. We protect mental wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. We protect time away from work with a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). We protect financial wellbeing through contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, our company platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.  

 

Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.

 

Diversity and Inclusion:

We are committed to providing an inclusive culture where all employees are able to fully contribute and thrive. Our goal is to grow and develop our people, attract diverse talent and support strong, diverse communities.

 

We support diversity, equity, and inclusion by working to develop a culture of inclusion and belonging led by leaders who develop potential and embrace unique skills and abilities. Our aim is to create an equitable and accountable environment for all leaders and employees that will drive performance and impact business strategy. In this way, we can increase overall diversity for leadership roles and pipelines of talent by maturing our hiring practices, robust development opportunities and focus on retention of key talent.

 

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing the talents of a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Azure Cloud Architect - USA, Remote $140,000 to $180,000

Azure Cloud Architect

USA, Remote

$140,000 to $180,000

Responsibilities 

  • Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements  

  • Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts 

  • Evangelize re-use through the implementation of shared assets  

  • Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.  

  • Proactively guide engineering methodologies, standards, and leading practices  

  • Guidance of engineering staff and reviews of as-built configurations during the construction phase  

  • Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for solution operations  

  • Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Decisions throughout the full lifecycle  

  • Considers the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility and impact, and proposes actionable plans  

  • Demonstrate strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills  

  • Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction  

  • Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic 

Minimum qualifications 

  • Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions  

  • Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.  

  • Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate technical team.  

  • Knowledge and experience in IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used.  

  • Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.  

  • Leadership skills can inspire others and persuade  

  • Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.  

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience  

  • Experience in a solution architecture role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.  

  • Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.  

  • Experience with any of the following: Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD  

  • Must have hands-on experience on various services like ADF, ADLS, Security, Monitoring, Governance

  • Must have experience to design platform on Azure.

  • 3+ years of hands-on Experience to design and build Databricks based solution on Azure platform

  • 1+ year of hands-on experience to design and build solution powered by DBT models and integrate with databricks.

  • Must be very good designing End-to-End solution on Azure platform.

  • Must have good knowledge of Data Engineering concept and related services of Azure

  • Must have good experience in Python and Spark

  • Must have good experience in setting up development best practices.

  • Intermediate level knowledge is required for Data Modelling

  • Good to have knowledge of docker and Kubernetes

  • Experience with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC  

  • Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.  

  • Experience building and supporting mission-critical technology components with DR capabilities  

  • Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises  

  • Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.  

  • Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches  

  • Familiarity with requirements gathering techniques.  

  • Microsoft, TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, CCNA, CISSP, PMP, etc. 

 

Preferred qualifications 

  • Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, DSC, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.  

  • Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Cassandra, Couchbase  

  • Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries, and tools  

  • Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, Java, Python, etc.  

  • Experience with data ingestion technologies such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Pentaho, Alteryx  

  • Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI

  • Experience with analytics tools including SPSS.  

  • Experience with machine learning tools such as Azure ML, IBM, AWS, etc.  

  • Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.  

  • Experience coordinating the intersection of complex system dependencies and interactions. 

  • Experience in solution delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative, etc.  

  • Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry trends and standards 

 

Why we're a great company
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.

Test Automation Lead - USA, Remote - $140,000 - $150,000

Test Automation Lead

USA, Remote

$140,000 - $150,000

 

Job Description

The Test Automation Lead is a key role within our IT Quality Assurance team responsible for building an automation framework. The Lead will help develop an automation test strategy and roadmap for the Plan and will define and drive implementation of test automation best practices. The Lead will develop and implement the test automation framework, develop automation scripts, maintain the framework and train others on how to use and execute automated tests.

 

Key Functions/Responsibilities:

·        Define the test automation strategy and framework to be used across IT, and continue to enhance and modify based on industry best practices.

·        Participate in the selection of automation tools.

·        Execute automation strategy, define and manage automation metrics, and drive process improvements

·        Provide technical leadership, direction, strategy and hands-on assistance to other members of the team

·        Mentors other QA professionals in test automation best practices and adherence to overall testing strategy

·        Promote the advancement and maturity of the Plan’s automation practices through training, collaboration, and creation of standards

·        Design and implement advanced testing practices and tools. Evaluate, recommend, and implement enterprise-wide standards and process guidelines that support automated process improvement across the SDLC.

·        Establish policies and procedures to ensure that the IT organization understands their roles and responsibilities for test automation.

·        Responsible for administration of test tools and integrations required to support the test automation strategic roadmap and will implement enterprise-wide standards and process guidelines to ensure effective use of the tools

·        Ensure test scripts are documented, reported and tracked in HP Quality Center or appropriate tool

·        Assist in defining measureable testing metrics and build out automated reporting and dashboards.

·        Provide automation test reports and statistics and ensure accurate and complete documentation.

·        Supervision Exercised:  N/A

·        Supervision Received: General supervision is received weekly

 

Education:

·        A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience

 

Experience:

·        Minimum 10 years’ experience in quality assurance/testing procedures, testing methodologies that includes implementing automation solutions

·        Experience implementing one or more automation frameworks (UTF, QC/ALM, Selenium or developed in-house)

·        QTP/UFT experience in building object repositories, standard & custom checkpoints, parameterization, reusable functions, recovery scenarios, and descriptive programming

·        Experience with a variety of testing techniques and methodologies

·        Experienced in performing test automation assessments, identifying targets for automation, and recommending automation best practices

·        Keeps current on test automation tools and their benefits or shortcomings

·        Experienced administrator for HP QuickTest Pro, Unified Functional Tester, and QC/ALM

·        Subject matter expert in software testing standards, processes, methodologies, and tools

·        Experienced with automating UI, APIs, web services and back-end processes

·        Experience in applying formal QA and testing methodologies

·        Experienced in cross-training and mentoring other team members on the automation framework and scripts development

·        Experienced in successfully automating smoke tests and regression test suites

Experience Preferred/Desirable:

·        Experience in healthcare industry preferred but not required

·        Certification or Conditions of Employment:  Pre-employment background check

 

Competencies, Skills, and Attributes:

·        Experience writing and debugging automated tests

·        Experience writing complex SQL select statements such as multi table joins, update and insert statements. The ability to read and understand DTS, SSIS packages, SQL job executions.

·        Experience deploying systems and/or software installations from source code management systems such as VSS, Perforce.

·        Strong oral and written communication skills.

·        A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

·        Should add something around collaborating with others, and training.

Working Conditions and Physical Effort:

·        Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment

·        No or very limited physical effort required. No or very limited exposure to physical risk

·        Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of the position.