Broker Systems Engineer

Broker Systems Engineer

This role can be based at either the Peterborough, Manchester or Stoke Offices and will involve a mixture of working from home and in the office.

This role is for Atlanta Group, part of the Markerstudy Group.

Job Purpose:  

As a Broker Systems Engineer you will analyse, configure, and test common areas of the core Policy administration systems using appropriate processes, methods, and standards. Working in a Scrum agile environment, Broker Systems Engineers perform configuration changes to meet project and change goals. You will be involved in all aspects of the development process, taking responsibility for your own work, and working to ensure the success of the team sprints.  

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities: 

• Undertake development/configuration and delivery of systems at a level appropriate to the role. 
• Working alongside other key business functions including Trading, Pricing, Wholesale, Operations, Commercial and Business Optimisation to ensure optimal commercial performance of the platform.
• Execute unit testing for all development/configuration and contribute to the planning of appropriate testing by the test team. 
• Ensure all production and development / test platforms are robust and secure, with clear auditing of change, in accordance with the Change Management practices.
• Ensure that the development/configuration of the platforms are consistent and in line to our standards.
• Provide 3rd line support for existing Policy Administration Systems within Markerstudy Distribution.
• To produce suitable design proposals for all new development in association with the rest of the scrum team in line with the Product Design Authority process (PDA).
• Ensure all configuration documents are kept up to date inline with our config change procedure for audit trail purposes.
• Contribute to best practice in development of the systems and of processes within the scrum team. 
• Provide updates to line management and the team on the progress of work during daily stand-ups and meetings. 
• Ensure compliance to Technology controls in all activities undertaken.  
• To provide input to the analysis process to avoid re-work and re-specification of systems mid-project. 
• To actively support and encourage at all times, compliance with our quality principles, company policies and best practice in security, legal and regulatory requirements.
• To safeguard information, paying particular attention to customer and employee data and business sensitive information.

Skills/Experience needed:

Essential 

• Understanding and experience of the software development life cycle, agile methodology (especially Scrum). 
• Experience with Open GI.
• Highly motivated / motivational to see success, delivered via their efforts.
• Good awareness of Incident, Problem and change management.  
• Familiar with Insurance Policy Administration systems.  
• Flexible and able to absorb rapidly new information / change in plans.
• Knowledge of version control tools for versioning code changes.

Desirable 

• Good Knowledge and experience use of HTML, Velocity, CSS and Microsoft applications.
• Demonstrates a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach to problem solving. 
• Good formal and informal communications ability both orally and in writing. 
• Capable of assisting other team members. 
• Is performance driven and can motivate others to be the same. 
• Good appreciation of the wider field of Technology. 
• Able to adapt to change well. 
• Good awareness of Cyber / Information / Data Security risks and the potential impact of these to the business.
• Use of issue management tools such as Jira, Service Now and confluence etc.

If you are interested, please apply with your up-to-date CV or email (url removed) for more information.