Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. By joining our team, you are helping to provide experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.
Requirements
- Provides technical support for multiple applications and system software technologies within areas of expertise.
- Develops, documents and executes unit test cases.
- Delivers quality and timely results.
- Owns and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes.
- Review and recommend test plans for impacted areas and end to end test coverage.
- Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures.
- Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
- Recommend improvements to existing processes or propose new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables
- Ensure reviews for quality (accurate and complete) application software designs are scheduled and conducted to ensure optimal use of software systems.
- Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies.
- Leads projects across technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
- Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams for multiple applications.
- Researches, evaluates and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation.
- Implement and support proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
- Develops and obtains sign offs on technical specs, design documents, functional designs and requirements.
- Guide teams on long term solutions for resolving frequently occurring production problems and reducing defect leakage.
- Ensure code is being developed per standards with a focus on maintainability and ensure unit test cases are being developed, documented and executed with the test results recorded.
- Ensure that the technical design presented by the architects is followed by the software development staff.
- Ensure batch cycles are being executed according to plan and that defects are resolved in an accurate and timely fashion.
- Lead team in successful completion of phase gates for projects
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- PTO
- 401k
