National Life Group is looking to modernize its product offerings and improve technical solutions across its product ecosystem, specifically focusing on life and annuity products. The company aims to drive product modernization and innovation initiatives, enhance productivity, reduce legacy maintenance overhead, and optimize operational efficiency through process re-engineering and technology implementation.
Requirements
- Expertise in IBM Mainframe technologies: COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ISPF/PDF, FILE-AID, MVS, Endevor.
- Proven experience in Life and Annuity Product systems, particularly on Vantage Policy Administration Platform.
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills with the ability to design and build complex algorithms.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and iterative delivery processes highly desired.
- Experience in managing third-party IT suppliers cost-effectively.
- Establish best practices for AI governance, model validation, and responsible AI usage within Mainframe Product development.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for Product Domain initiatives, including design, development, integration, and implementation.
- Translate business and product requirements into detailed technical designs and specifications aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
- Evaluate technology options and trade-offs to ensure feasibility, scalability, and performance of solutions.
- Drive the adoption of AI-assisted coding, refactoring, and documentation practices to enhance productivity and reduce legacy maintenance overhead.
- Drive end-to-end solution delivery, from architecture through deployment and support.
- Identify opportunities for application modernization, rationalization, and transformation toward a simplified, modern system platform.
- Identify opportunities to apply Generative AI for knowledge extraction, documentation creation, and code migration from legacy systems.
Other
- Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 15+ years of experience in Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
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- 15+ years of Product domain experience preferred.
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- 7+ years leading teams on Vantage systems preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading in matrixed, outsourced environments, leveraging influence and collaboration.
- Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills with a proactive, adaptive mindset.
