Java Developer

Place of work
Bratislava
Contract type
full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Job Description
Life & Health IT Senior Application Engineer – Java Developer is responsible for delivering technical solutions within the L&H IT landscape and project portfolio with immediate focus on supporting the Valuations Database. The L&H Senior Application Engineer will report directly to the Head of L&H IT Costing & Admin Platforms and will be involved with end-to-end solution development from design to delivery, support operational incident and problem resolution and performance enhancements.

In this position, the person is responsible for collaborating with a local team of developers and production support personnel and coordinating with a complement offshore and nearshore team. The individual will also provide support to other regional application management staff, currently located in Armonk, Fort Wayne, London and Zurich. The person will provide overall technical leadership while collaborating with a variety of global Swiss Re teams and leveraging vendor partnerships. Activities will cover all solution development lifecycle phases, from technical analysis, design, development, quality assurance to production induction and support.

Key skills include the ability to bring ideas from concept to reality and being able to communicate effectively to all stakeholders. The key responsibilities would be:
- Design, develop and deliver GUI adaptations
- Design new screens based on business requirements and specifications
- Implement L&H applications back-end features
- Support application and operational performance improvements and enhancements
- Translate business requirements into system production solution design and patterns, which enables quality, re-usability, scalability availability and maintainability in accordance with the overall Business Strategy and IT standards
- Collaborate with other teams in defining functionality, scope and time lines
- Present and communicate ideas and design to various teams for review and brainstorming
- Act as development consultant to operational team, assisting them in choosing the most appropriate technical solution for their applications and/or production issues
- Support development defect resolution and/or operational/production incident and problem solutions
- Implement long term operational requirements, design solutions and operational efficiency
- Knowledge of L&H Domain and/or lines of business helpful.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

Requirements

Education:
- Bachelor's degree level or equivalent in computer science or related field.
- MS is a plus.

Essential requirements:
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented programming
- Experienced Java Developer (5 – 6 years)
- Hands-on experience with Google Web toolkit and/or other similar GUI framework
- Experienced in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), asynchronous executions
- Experience working with Hibernate/Java Persistence API (JPA); Websphere; Maven; Hazelcast
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Screen design / usability expert
- Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communication in complex environments
- Ability to manage own workload; self directed
- Strong database and modeling background, with experience in addressing performance issues in large databases
- Well-experienced in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile SCRUM methodologies
- Expertise in standard Workflow tools
- Experienced in working with a diverse multi-locational team of internal and external professionals
- Innovation with quick work around solutions, while also working on developing optimized permanent solutions
- Business customer focused
- Diligence in managing documentation requirements.

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Lucia Vargova

ID: 1902380  Dátum zverejnenia: 11.12.2014