Application Developer
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Reports to Lead Developer.
Works in close co-operation with our solution architect, project managers, business analysts and the Hartford Global Speciality IT teams.
Job Responsibilities & Competence
Design and develop custom-built, robust, and intuitive web applications that deliver both strategic and tactical business requirements in accordance with industry best practices.
Utilise system integration technologies to enable external and internal web services & APIs to interact effectively so that operational efficiencies are generated.
Ensure the principles of data storage and integration are at the forefront of design decisions and align to The Hartford's architectural principles.
Maintain responsibility for producing high quality and accurate solutions by implementing robust testing and reconciliation processes throughout change work.
Ensure design and implementation documentation is created or updated where necessary, covering application environments, data-flows, and support processes.
Assist in the resolution of business-impacting production support issues.
Act as a strong team player and share knowledge with fellow developers.
Suggest ways to improve application maintainability and improvements in the technology landscape.
Demonstrate the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Liaise with third-party application providers to ensure smooth integration of their systems with The Hartford's infrastructure and applications.
Constantly learn and improve the way people interact with software.
Conduct code / system reviews and provide feedback where appropriate.
Collaborate with business analysts to determine functionality options and associated level of effort and any trade-offs between usability and cost.
Procedures
Comply with and follow Hartford’s policies and procedures
Adhere to any common standards set across the company and ensures that policies and procedures are adequately documented
Other Duties
The job description is intended to describe the main duties only. Job holders are expected to maintain flexibility and perform all other reasonable duties that relate to the job as assigned by The Hartford
The job holder may need to travel to our other office locations on an ad-hoc basis to satisfy assigned duties
Technical Skills
- Required: hands on development experience in technologies such as:
- C#
- .Net Framework 4.7
- .Net Core
- Entity Framework
- NUnit testing framework
- Web development, including
- ASP.Net MVC
- JavaScript
- IIS
- Creating APIs / web APIs
- MSDTC / MSMQ
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Azure DevOps
- Build and deployment pipelines
- Git source control
- AWS Development
- Serverless development
- C# Lambda
- Amazon Glue
- PostgreSQL
- Experience of any of the following areas would be an advantage:
- WPF / XAML
- Angular
- Ajax
- HTML5
- CSS
- Service bus
- Multi-threading
- SSRS
- SSIS
- AWS / Cloud development
- Possess a thorough understanding of Object-Orientated Programming and Service-Orientated Architecture.
- Solid understanding of Management Information platforms, development concepts and data warehousing principles.
- Experience of Policy Admin systems (Genius, Subscribe), workflow tools (ImageRight) and Claims Management Systems (DOCOsoft), their processes and workflows would be an advantage.
- Experience of software and data-testing practices to produce high quality solutions.
- Have a strong understanding of design patterns and refactoring development work.
- Possess the capability to apply software development best practices and coding standards within the work environment.
- Understanding of the P&C general commercial insurance or Lloyd’s market business processes and practices would be an advantage.
- Experience of Scaled Agile development methodologies and the full Software Development Lifecycle.
Personal Skills
- Strong customer service ethic.
- Strong analytical and logical problem solving skills.
- Ability to learn and understand new products quickly.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload, handling varying priorities by setting expectations appropriately.
- Clear communicator, both written and verbal.
- Ability to develop and sustain relationships with internal and external customers.
- Ability to apply a pragmatic and collaborative approach when required.
- Self-starter, able to manage own workload and juggle tasks appropriately.
- Proactive with suggestions for improvements; thinks laterally; receptive to new ideas.
- Demonstrates ownership and responsibility.
Educational Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
Certification in Microsoft development practices (not essential).
Experience
- Relevant experience, preferably in the Insurance industry.
- Relevant experience in an Application Developer role.
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- C#
- .Net Framework 4.7
- .Net Core
- Entity Framework
- NUnit testing framework
- Web development, including
- ASP.Net MVC
- JavaScript
- IIS
- Creating APIs / web APIs
- MSDTC / MSMQ
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Azure DevOps
- Build and deployment pipelines
- Git source control
- AWS Development
- Serverless development
- C# Lambda
- Amazon Glue
- PostgreSQL
- WPF / XAML
- Angular
- Ajax
- HTML5
- CSS
- Service bus
- Multi-threading
- SSRS
- SSIS
- AWS / Cloud development
- Possess a thorough understanding of Object-Orientated Programming and Service-Orientated Architecture.
- Solid understanding of Management Information platforms, development concepts and data warehousing principles.
- Experience of Policy Admin systems (Genius, Subscribe), workflow tools (ImageRight) and Claims Management Systems (DOCOsoft), their processes and workflows would be an advantage.
- Experience of software and data-testing practices to produce high quality solutions.
- Have a strong understanding of design patterns and refactoring development work.
- Possess the capability to apply software development best practices and coding standards within the work environment.
- Understanding of the P&C general commercial insurance or Lloyd’s market business processes and practices would be an advantage.
- Experience of Scaled Agile development methodologies and the full Software Development Lifecycle.
- Strong customer service ethic.
- Strong analytical and logical problem solving skills.
- Ability to learn and understand new products quickly.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload, handling varying priorities by setting expectations appropriately.
- Clear communicator, both written and verbal.
- Ability to develop and sustain relationships with internal and external customers.
- Ability to apply a pragmatic and collaborative approach when required.
- Self-starter, able to manage own workload and juggle tasks appropriately.
- Proactive with suggestions for improvements; thinks laterally; receptive to new ideas.
- Demonstrates ownership and responsibility.
- Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in Microsoft development practices (not essential).
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