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Job Summary:
Horace Mann is a company dedicated to providing quality insurance and financial products for educators. They are seeking a Solutions Engineer to support the modernization of their data ecosystem, specifically transitioning to a Cloud Data Access architecture and integrating Guidewire platforms with legacy systems.
Responsibilities:
• Anticipating IT industry future directions and relates it to (Horace Mann) evolving needs This includes evolving enterprise data architecture and Guidewire platform capabilities.
• Applying expertise for the development, specification and communication of the technology architecture that is applicable to their domain
• Conforms and contributes to standards and environment needs
• Flexibility to effectively provide leadership when called upon to provide some project management for single project involving their area of technical expertise
• Works on multiple projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments. Projects will include Guidewire data integration, P&C reporting solutions, and legacy system data consolidation.
• Typically works on a defined set of solutions in all lifecycle stages for a particular business domain
• Establishing, contributions to and team level enforcement of standards and processes
• Interweaving technology enhancements into business initiatives
• Proactively exploiting opportunities to improve the operation’s effectiveness and reduce cost
• Keeping abreast of changes/innovations in the IT field and applying that knowledge in an effective and timely manner to Horace Mann IT practices
• Establishing and communicating a cohesive technology direction in partnership with the business initiatives
• Understanding and communicating how their portfolio cooperates and meets the needs of their business domain
• Helping establish and communicate the changes needed to modernize the IT systems and business processes while maintaining operations and legacy support
• Team conformance and contribution to standards
• Technical solution planning to meet the needs of their business domain
• Incorporating technology advancements into existing solutions
• Communication
• Team’s delivery of the technical portions of projects
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Systems, or other related field, Or equivalent work experience.
• 4-6 years of IT work experience in multiple IT areas.
• 1-2 years of project management experience.
• Must have a commitment to continuing education.
• Excellent oral and written communication with a strong sense of professionalism and tact.
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented individual.
• Demonstrated record of initiative, adaptability and decision making.
• Proven ability to seek out and solve problems; go beyond the obvious to gain performance.
• Strong project management skills and solid team-player.
• Experience required with Guidewire CDA and DHIC.
• Strong experience with Guidewire platforms with an understanding of the data model.
• Strong working knowledge of dependencies between software development and infrastructure design.
• Specific to targeted platform – Expert level working knowledge of development and debugging tools.
• Strong working knowledge of database design and query including advanced SQL development for large insurance datasets.
• Strong working knowledge of SDLC and Project Life Cycle principles.
• Expert level working knowledge of platform specific code repository products.
• Specific to targeted platform – strong working knowledge of client-side and server-side scripting.
• Strong design and documentation skills using tools and techniques such as pipeline design patterns, DB design, and infrastructure diagrams.
Preferred:
• Appropriate industry certification(s) a plus.
• Experience preferred with Snowflake data platform and cloud data warehousing.
• Experience preferred with dbt (data build tool) for data transformations, testing, and documentation.
Company:
Horace Mann provides auto insurance, life insurance, and financial services. Founded in 1945, the company is headquartered in Springfield, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.