senior systems Developer ii - cobolFWD Group

About FWD Life Insurance
FWD Life Insurance Corporation (FWD Life Insurance) launched its commercial operations in September 2014. As of end-2021, FWD Life Insurance ranks 3rd and 5th in terms of Paid-up Capital1 and Total Premium Income2, respectively.
FWD Group is a pan-Asian life insurance business with approximately 10 million customers across 10 markets, including some of the fastest growing insurance markets in the world. In the Philippines, FWD has 18 business hubs located in key cities nationwide, with its headquarters in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.
Established in 2013, FWD is focused on making the insurance journey simpler, faster and smoother, with innovative propositions and easy-to-understand products, supported by digital technology. Through this customer-led approach, FWD is committed to changing the way people feel about insurance.
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1
Statistics
Life
2021
Based on Paid-Up Capital
2
Statistics
Life
2021
Based on Total Premium Income
Responsible for development and implementation of FWD business system that will support different functional areas and BAU processes.
The systems developer conducts systems analysis, technical design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance support. This role will perform full stack development using the relevant technologies available.
Planning and implementations
Conducts system analysis and design, process flow modelling (such as Sequence, DFD, Workflow...etc.), and client process re-engineering;
Recommends solutions or workarounds to customers' business issues.
Provide effort estimation.
Perform full stack systems development and enhancements to support business needs using the appropriate technologies
Perform unit and integration testing
Assists in testing and production environment setup.
Participates in system testing (SIT) and supports user acceptance testing (UAT)
Provides system solutions where applicable
Prepare user procedure manual
Preparation of management reports
Collaborates with FSA and other technical resources to ensure that the solution is aligned with the requirements.
Ensure that organization policies, procedures and standards (such as SDLC, Security, Audit guidelines) are met in the delivery of the solutions
Assist if production support as needed
Submissions of "Business as Usual" (BAU) Requests
Assistance to batch operations
Systems troubleshooting
Determine and execute appropriate actions to restore service.
Verify the resolution is successful.
Ensure that product delivery incidents are tracked and updated
Maintain a BAU service requests and incident log for analysis
May collaborate with different IT functional area for assessment of product improvements
Regularly submits management reports
Continuous improvements:
Participates in relevant workshops or forums
Attend assigned/required training
Assess own training needs
Keep up to date on new technologies and tools by conducting research
Regularly performs self-assessment for performance check-in
Perform other task assigned by the manager or supervisor
Skills & Experience Required:
Preferably with at least 5 years solid experience in COBOL, Smart400, AS400 (CL) development.
Preferably with Life Asia or Group Asia development experience
With experience on developing Business Objects (BO) in Life Asia / Group Asia
With experience in the following technology stack or methodology is an advantage:
Collaborations and tracking: Jira / Slack / Teams
Agile framework (scrum)
Test automation tools
Proficiency in MS Office Applications.
Hands-on experience in Life insurance system development and implementation is an advantage. With good understating on Product development, New Business and after sales process.
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FWD Group

Philippines
Permanent
Full-time