Description:
Working under moderate supervision, this candidate will be part of our Life Reporting and Data Extracts & Analytics team and contributes to Wawanesa success by maintaining, supporting, and enhancing operational reporting, data integrations, and analytical dashboards used by stakeholders across all functional areas of the business.
The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a small agile scrum team model that facilitates rapid design, development and implementation of changes that embodies a passion for continuous improvement and whole-team quality. You will have experience in ETL concepts & development, report development and have relevant technical proficiency with software technologies/tools such as Informatica Cloud Services (IICS).
Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test software.
- Prepare technical specifications from requirements.
- Ensure successful completion of developer assignments by estimating and tracking progress of assigned work.
- Maintain the operation of business systems and applications.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve application incidents.
- Participate in planning activities.
- Create and update relevant documentation.
- Improve upon and ensure the adherence to the established practices, processes, and guidelines.
- Keep current with relevant technologies.
- Mentor other Application Developers
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Completion of Post-secondary degree or diploma in software development or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of practical experience (preferably 4 to 7 years) performing an application development role building software using current programming languages/techniques and working with relational database systems and structured query languages.
- Experience developing with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). Experience with other ETL tools such as AWS Glue and Microsoft SSIS is considered an asset.
- Experience with peer code review.
- Detail oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills to recognize and identify issues and take proper action to resolve them.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with style fitting for the audience and message.
- Strong ability to work collaboratively in a team environment by making quality contributions and supporting fellow team members.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to self-manage a fluctuating workload, with various situations and changing priorities.
- Possesses a willingness to learn while keeping abreast of developments in field and have the ability to apply learning to new situations.
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI would be an asset.
- Experience coding in Python or PowerShell would be an asset.
- Experience with Crystal Server would be an asset.
- Experience using software development tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, Source Code Management and RunMyJobs is considered an asset.
- Experience with Unix; Windows; Oracle; Microsoft SQL Server; Java is considered an asset.
- Certifications in relevant technology is considered an asset.
- Knowledge and experience in the Insurance industry is considered an asset.