Senior Developer Individual Life

You report to the IL Application Development Manager and are part of a team of developers with whom you collaborate constructively and balanced working around Vereycken&Vereycken UL3 Policy Administration System. As a Senior IT developer, you are in charge of managing, developing, and maintaining applications developed in-house. You are also actively participating in global maturity increase and SDLC improvement based on your expertise.

RESPONSIBILITES

• Participate in technical feasibility studies and contribute to the reflection on functional analysis with Vereycken&Vereycken.
• Design and document solutions in a comprehensive manner to ensure development work is performed accordingly.
• Support decomposition of work in “stories” to optimise the workload planning across team.
• Design, maintain and improve development standards for the team improvement.
• Carry out the technical implementation and improvement of all kinds of applications according to specifications where required.
• Optimally collaborate with architects, infrastructure and operations colleagues to optimise the solutions while maintaining high standards and security.
• Prepare technical documentation for the programs developed in order to provide IT colleagues with a tool for the use of the programs.
• Developing and maintaining reporting tooling from UL3 and other applications towards external and internal DBs, XML, CSV etc.
• Ad hoc development of tools supporting the policy administration and other work streams in the company.
• Coordinate development related efforts engaging our Group IT colleagues.

REQUIRED PROFILE 

• At least a bachelor's degree in computer science.
• 5 years of hands-on software development experience in an OO context with exposure to API development.
• Mastery of software development processes (SDLC), methods and trends.
• Excellent in data structures, algorithms and problem solving skills as well as an ability to apply design patterns in architecture.
• Full-stack development experience & Agile software development management experience (Python, .Net, etc.).
• French or Dutch speaking and fluent in English, both orally and in writing.
• Knowledge of UL3 platform from Vereycken & Vereycken is an asset.
• Ability to work both individually and as part of a collaborative team.
• Experience in Insurance (Life Insurance).
• High standards with just-enough documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration & deployment, and a preference for agile methods.