Mainframe Vantage Programmer

Job Title: Mainframe Vantage Programmer

Location: Montpelier, VT / Addison, TX

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Day to Day job Duties:

• Attending the client Meetings to understand the client requirements and provide technical solutions to build Life products in Policy Administrative Systems
• Build Life Product features on Vantage policy administration system
• Build out a plan from scratch using Product Wizard, with Understanding of Traditional life Products, system migrations, and conversions
• Participate in the process of defining, documenting, and analyzing customer requirements, business processes and procedures.
• Researching and writing down the technical changes involved as per the client requirements, identifying dependencies of different systems and prepare Technical Specification Document
• Provide technical guidance and lead the team to meet product deliverable timelines
• Perform code and design reviews to ensure that the deliverables adhere to the project guidelines
• Testing of all the changes done for the project through different test cases and later evaluate the results to make sure test results are as expected
• Providing SIT and UAT support and Production roll outs.
• Timely resolution of abends/obstacles in testing

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years of Vantage Experience
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in TRAD whole life/Universal life product development
• Minimum 8+ years development experience using COBOL, JCL, DB2

Travel: This position requires someone who can travel at least 80%. Preferred location is Addison, Texas or Montpelier, Vermont.

Degree: Bachelors in computer science or equivalent work experience