Developer
Reporting to Agile Delivery Manager | Part of the Customer Delivery team
About us
It is our vision to connect the insurance community through market-leading technology. Our people are placed at the
heart of this, and diversity, equity and inclusion are central to everything we do.
We know the key to achieving success is to enable a positive, inclusive, and collaborative working culture, and, as part of
our commitment, we have signed up for a number of pledges and programmes designed to support and nurture our
people.
No matter where you sit or which team you are a part of, we want you to know that you contribute in helping us to shape
where the company will be in the future. We would love for each employee to be able to talk with pride about our
company and, most importantly, consider Open GI to be an inclusive, fun and fulfilling place to work.
An overview of the role
Development of solutions which enable OGI to lead the market, whilst continually improving the current technical
estate.
Your key responsibilities
• Hands on delivery of software working as part of cross functional scrum team. Advocating and implementing
improvements in working practices.
• Work as part of a collaborative, customer focussed delivery team.
• Work collaboratively with our internal and external customers to provide a high quality software development
service.
• Act in the role of a key Scrum team member, proactively picking up tasks to get things to done.
• Deliver new customer requirements as quickly, reliably and efficiently as possible.
• Contribute to a continually improving Agile software development framework.
• Liaise with Customers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers and QA’s, establishing and
implementing requirements and/or the resolution of live operational issues.
What you’ll need to succeed
Qualifications
• Educated to degree level (advantageous)
• A Degree in a computer related subject (advantageous)
Experience
• Experience of working on production software applications and database.
• Proven ability to implement designed solutions in conjunction with the broader Scrum team.
• An understanding of Java
• Minimum of 1-year related developer experience
Advantageous
• Experience of working in an agile environment.
• General Insurance / financial services industry knowledge.
Skills
• A good understanding of and ability to work with Java (8 and above) and SQL
• Experience with Unit testing (advantageous).
• Understanding of Design Patterns, Rest API and SOAP
• Knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processors, ngx-formly, Angular framework (11 and above) and
Typescript
• Experience of responsive web design or at least one framework (ex. Bootstrap)
• Working experience with Git/SVN
• Experience in setup and maintaining continuous integration & delivery (Azure DevOps) (advantageous).
• Agile delivery skills – for example Scrum / Kanban Framework.
• Problem solving and deep analysis skills including ability to diagnose performance issues.
Aptitudes
• Finds the appropriate balance between technical/architectural fit and delivery of business goals.
• Self-motivated and driven to get things to done.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Aptitude for problem solving and logical thinking.
• Able to learn, absorb and implement new ideas or technologies quickly.
• Ability to create and drive technical innovation.
• Able to apply past experience and knowledge in a new context.
• Forward thinking, pro-active and creative
• Able to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills with both internal and external customers
• Able to consistently work to a high level of accuracy
• Using analysis and design skills, able to convert requirements specified at either a business or technical level
into a successful implementation
• Able to work under pressure, satisfying internal/external demands and meeting agreed deadlines
• Methodical, disciplined, and innovative in approach to development tasks
• Able to raise, monitor and resolve project or development issues
Our values are central to our vision, as they represent how we collaborate to continually deliver for our customers:
• Accountability: We own our actions and shape our success on the results we deliver
• Innovation: We tackle challenges with fresh thinking and bold ideas
• Teamwork: We work together, recognising we can’t do this without each other
• Trust: We build trust on integrity, transparency and mutual respect