Vertafore Jobs in Michigan (NOW HIRING)

Innovates and crafts clean code 

Confidently work with customers to describe technical concepts and recommend appropriate solutions whether pure custom or a mix of custom and core Vertafore products 

Assist business analysts as needed with reviewing request information and documenting solution designs that align with customer expectations and business objectives/requirements 

Document, architect and develop forward thinking technical specifications and solutions based on provided business requirements and/or specifications 

Create advanced tables, views, stored procedures, indexes, constraints, cursors, user defined functions and triggers using T-SQL and SSMS 

Optimize query performance and tuning indexes using Query Analyzer and other tools 

Extract, transform and load (ETL) data 

Responsible for interface design, documentation and unit testing 

Develop automated solution deployments as appropriate 

Deploy developed solutions within non-production environments and assist with Vertafore production release deployments 

Working on/with small teams and completing tasks quickly with minimal supervision 

Leading junior developers and providing proactive feedback to senior leadership 

Mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product 

Drives and manages design conversations for features considering business need 

Defines and creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team and external stakeholders 

Incorporate new approaches, languages, and technologies into the team 

Develops new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features 

Diagnosis and troubleshoots issues across the whole stack – OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network; Provides solutions for complex, ambiguous problems through multiple stacks and products 

Ensures quality of code within the team written or reviewed 

Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development 

Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally 

Follows industry trends and the open-source community 

Interacts with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts 

Other duties as assigned 

Advanced troubleshooting experience and resolving production issues 

Excellent written and verbal communication skills (internal and external customers/partners) 

Ability to work within a team in a collaborative manner 

Willingness to learn new technologies and experiment with innovation 

Self-starter who is detail-oriented, quick-learner and deadline-driven 

Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversations, internally and externally. 

Strategic problem solver with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills 

An innate curiosity about how things work; Proactively acquires new skills and learns new tools and technologies to troubleshoot complex issues. 

Comfortable and effective at making decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security. and performance 

Applies knowledge gained and is effective at knowledge-sharing and assisting other team members. 

Able to work with global, distributed teams 

In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming 

Highly proficient with multiple database technologies 

Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level 

Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions 

Desire to collaborate with the business, designing pragmatic solutions