Sr Programmer Analyst II

This role is designed for a seasoned application developer. In this position, you will leverage your technical expertise and a thorough understanding of our company's internal policies to creatively and effectively solve complex problems. You'll tackle challenging assignments that demand significant initiative and independent judgment, often requiring you to identify the best course of action both within and outside established goals and objectives. The role necessitates the ability to handle tasks involving new technologies and business processes with minimal guidance from management.

This position is available onsite at our Springfield, MO, Glenmont, NY and Galveston, TX office locations.

What You'll Do:

• Communicates fluently with the business representatives.
• Understands business requirements and can relate these to the supporting system requirements, producing technical specifications for the work to be done.
• Codes readable, reliable, and maintainable programs in any of a variety of languages on multiple platforms necessary to support the team's assigned systems.
• Provides guidance to junior team members.
• Performs unit and system testing using test plans and scripts approved by the business.
• Reviews test results with the business and makes the necessary adjustments to the deliverable.
• Identifies and rectifies errors in coding quickly, showing initiative and a proactive approach.
• Obtains an approval and submits proper documentation for migration to the locked-up production environment.
• Records the time and status to the appropriate projects or support activity for billing.
• Responds promptly to production issues by serving an on-call rotation for the 24-hour support of the team's systems, making decisions that will positively influence the up-time and full recovery of the team's systems from outages.
• Actively participate in Agile Release Train (ART) events and processes, ensuring effective collaboration, timely communication, and adherence to Agile principles to deliver high-quality solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, or a related technical field from an accredited institution.
• Four to six years of experience developing applications with proficiency in JavaScript, UI Design, HTML, CSS, REST, XML, and JSON.
• Additional Qualifications:
  • A minimum of four years of experience. Similar industry experience preferred.
  • Familiarity with BPM tools and applications, including IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) and IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW).
  • Experience with process mapping, modeling, and visualization.
  • Knowledge of business process standards.
  • Experience working directly with clients as a technical consultant.
  • Ability to collaborate with various departments to develop comprehensive business solutions.
  • Full understanding of software fundamentals and best practices.

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
American National offers eligible employees and their families medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan. Employees also receive annually a bank of paid time off and paid holidays. We aspire to see people for what they bring to our corporate culture by supporting an inclusive work environment, including an emphasis on a healthy work-life balance, development opportunities, and a casual dress code.
American National is an established, stable, and successful multi-line insurance corporation that has provided financial strength and a sense of security to employees, customers and business partners since 1905. With focus on our organization's values and cultural richness: Financial Strength, Integrity, Respect, Service and Teamwork (FIRST) and Agility, Collaboration, and Engagement (ACE) we continue to pursue our vision to be a leading provider of financial products and services for current and future generations.
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