IT Technical Analyst at Chubb in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

Job Description:

Chubb Personal I/T is seeking a self-motivated Technical Analyst to participate in the development and support of highly visible systems related to policy rating and issuance, creation and viewing of policy paper, integration with underwriting systems and external services. In this role, the successful candidate must be able to independently lead / implement assignments as a hands-on expert, providing technical and business expertise on the design, development, addressing security vulnerabilities,  and implementation of complex applications using legacy as well as emerging technologies.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Understand and translate business and functional requests into program/applications

• Participate on project teams and effectively interact with business partners, vendor partners, Business Analysts, Architects, Quality Assurance specialists, and management

• Design, code, test and implement application program code for both new and existing applications 

• Develop and execute test scenarios and test cases for unit, integration and system testing

• Ability to produce concise and accurate documentation for projects

• Ensure compliance with all Chubb standards and guidelines 

• Adhere to project management methodology and standards by following Waterfall, SAFe Agile, Scrum and Kanban.

• Research and evaluate alternative solutions and recommend the most efficient and cost effective solution for the systems design

• Comply with architectural standards; re-use existing software structures where applicable

• Take the lead on assignments and mentor/provide guidance to other staff members

• Collaborate effectively across functional business and technical areas 

• Flexible and effective at multi-tasking 

• Participates in on-call production support of applications/platforms in multiple environments; escalates issues following procedures to minimize system downtime

• Monitors the operational health and performance of production systems

• Complies with all I/T policies, procedures and controls

 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.

•    6-8 years of experience in building enterprise applications and Java, J2EE, Resful Webservices, Websphere, Visual Studio, Github, Jenkins, HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, DB2, SQL

•    Design database model, Optimize database performance by fine-tuning SQL queries and creating indexes. Develop and maintain PL/SQL Packages, Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions in DB2

•    Develop Unit Test cases and improve test coverage for existing code bases

•    Perform complex troubleshooting of critical problem tickets, resolving defects in existing production software and provide root-cause analysis

•    Experience in creating technical specification, software architecture, testing plan, release and deployment documents.

•    Excellent written/verbal skills and demonstrated ability to meet commitments under pressure

•    Works successfully in a team environment and independently as required

•    Ability to take full ownership of work and show initiative as needed; Committed to hard work and a high ethical conduct.

Preferred Work Experience and Skills:

•    Cloud experience with Azure / AWS and experience in configuring Dev-Ops / continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Maven

•    Demonstrated ability to perform code change management by creating branches, merging and software releases using GIT Version Control system.

•    3-5 years of Smalltalk experience. 

•    3-5 years of Mainframe experience with knowledge of JMS, CICS, MQ, COBOL, JCL, ZEKE, CLISTS.

•    Understanding of how to Migrate applications to Server-less Architecture, which are scalable and Secure.