Solution Designer

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Job Description

• The role is responsible in providing direction, inputs, and sign-off on projects which can affect assigned domain/s.

• He needs to ensure the overall integrity, sustainability, and robustness of system design across the entire system’s development lifecycle.

• He needs to have knowledge of the existing technology landscape and align the design and recommendations with the company's overall systems strategy and any applicable IT standards.

• Role will be focused around designing a solution that is as elegant, optimized, modularized and reusable as possible --ensuring the design is flexible and extensible.

• Handles area/s within a specific domain. Designs solutions to solve business problems in the area assigned to him.

• Works closely with the Project Teams on developing Solutions and guiding Systems Analysts and Developers, ensuring that what they develop as code adheres to the Design approved.

Main responsibilities

• Establishes domain expertise and serve as solutions subject matter expert.

• Provides design direction and recommendations in terms of software solutions, infrastructure, methodologies, skills and talents, and innovation.

• Works with Project Teams, Enterprise Architect, and different IT teams in creating holistic solutions across several domains.

• Acts as custodian of Design and Development best practices which will need to be cascaded and upheld to the development teams.

• Co-creates architecture submissions along with the project teams and aligns with Architecture Team prior to presentation.

• Perform proof of concepts needed to support the viability of the proposed solution.

• Can do development tasks as needed to augment the development team.

Knowledge

• Systems Development Life Cycles, its stages, major tasks and deliverables

• Agile / Waterfall methodogies

• Insurance principles and terminology, SLF products, policies and procedures

• At least 4 year experience in system analysis, solutioning and coding preferably in insurance or financial industry

• Have experience in any of the following capabilities to support insurance business:
  - Client on-boarding
  - Advisor on-boarding
  - Insurance after-sales administration
  - Financial payment and disbursement
  - Accounting and other financial fields

Core Professional / Technical Competencies Required

• Must have strong analytical and conceptual skills, good interviewing skills (for design presentation with different stakeholders), good oral and written communication skills, and good customer service and interpersonal skills; Exposure to Life Insurance, Pre-need, Mutual Funds or Trust systems and/or operations

• Knowledge in the following development principles
  • Efficiency and reusability
  • Maintainability and portability
  • Security and Performance
• Knowledge in the following technical tools and coding languages
  • Micro front end approaches and tools
  • Web component, Angular, Bootstrap, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Invision
  • Java or NodeJS, jUnit, Bitbucket, Jenkins (CI/CD) development tools
  • Spring framework, Spring boot
  • JSON. XML, SoapUI
  • Docker / Kubernetes
• Knowledge on upcoming technologies
  • Cloud platform (AWS / Azure)
  • Event driven architecture (Kafka)
  • Architectural patterns eg. Light4J, API gateway

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

30/01/2025