Associate, Application Developer

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Overview

On Site
USD 104,976.00 - 140,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Acceptance Testing
Data Warehouse
Technical Support
FOCUS
Software Development
Business Analysis
Web Development
Operational Efficiency
Collaboration
Documentation
Communication
Acquisition
Thought Leadership
Quantitative Analysis
DevOps
Hosting
Information Systems
Computer Science
Insurance
Asset Management
Fixed Income
Private Equity
Derivatives
Analytical Skill
Critical Thinking
Presentations
Financial Accounting
Reporting
Relational Databases
Accounting
SAP
Market Analysis
Data Security
Master Data Management
Alternative Investments
Management
Sourcing
Finance
Data Integration
EDM
Programming Languages
Node.js
Flask
HTML
Cascading Style Sheets
XML
JavaScript
Cloud Computing
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon SQS
Docker
Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon CloudFront
API
Load Balancing
Scripting
Python
Shell Scripting
PL/SQL
Transact-SQL
Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows
Unix
Linux
SQL
Snow Flake Schema
MongoDB
Data Modeling
Modeling
Star Schema
Version Control
Git
Microsoft TFS
Build Automation
Jenkins
Amazon Web Services
IDE
PyCharm
Notepad++
Software Development Methodology
Agile
Scrum
Waterfall
JIRA
Confluence
POSTMAN
Microsoft Visual Studio
Recruiting

Job Details

Position: Associate, Application Developer

Location: 100 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005

Duties :
  • Design, develop and implement in accordance with the company's governance framework, UAT, and controls as part of the IT team.
  • Support existing and new technology platforms within Aflac Global Investment's IT team, while delivering sophisticated development/modeling with a key focus on development of data warehouses and implementation of tools that support GI business technology functions.
  • Work closely with the business and development teams to ensure all aspects of data input and computational needs are captured and implemented currently and with efficiency.
  • Engage different teams within AFLAC for technology support; includes understanding business requirements, implement and plan to deliver desired business solutions.
  • Work with business on all phases to ensure methodology is correct and meets growing needs of GI.
  • Focus on assigned technology area within GI IT as well as understand the software development lifecycle (includes, but is not limited to; IT data modeling, IT data interface, IT business analysis, IT cloud (AWS) and IT web development, as well as new business protocols that strive for operational efficiency across the entire the GI IT and business platform.
  • Collaborate with GI IT and businesses to ensure models are efficient and robust as deployed into production.
  • Provide documentation of modeling methodologies, assumptions, and calibration techniques
  • Design and develop applications using Python, Snowflake in Windows/Linux platforms.
  • Trouble shoot and resolve technical and data issues in a timely fashion, including strong communication between IT and business.
  • Continue to enhance market data acquisition and dissemination platform for GI.
  • Stay abreast of developing techniques to ensure modeling is current and robust and provide thought leadership on quantitative analysis and modeling methods.
  • Create, produce and present oral and written analyses and concepts, including management recommendations, to senior management.
  • Develop modeling methodology for complex investment strategies seeking opportunities to leverage swaps, forwards, options, hedging and other technical investment instruments to support investment team.
  • Provide support for creation cloud DevOps and help with GI cloud hosting initiatives.


Minimum Requirements :
  • Must have a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or other related field.
  • Must have 5 years of progressive experience in IT positions performing the following:
    • Applying working knowledge of IT development and execution to further enhance the investment platform within insurance asset management.
    • Demonstrating advanced knowledge of public and private fixed income asset classes, public and private equity, alternatives and derivatives with demonstrated experience of modeling asset class risk and return.
    • Demonstrating analytical and critical thinking skills with distilling technical work into business presentations.
    • Ability to analyze large amounts of data and extract meaningful information to identify findings in a succinct format.
    • Identifying and improving data accuracy and processes used in production of financial, accounting and investment reporting purposes.
    • Demonstrating experience using financial data domains and relational databases in support of all data needs for IT projects, including automation experience in following areas:
      • Data Integration experience with accounting system (SAP FAM and SAP APIs);
      • Development of data pipelines to source investment data (i.e. Market data, Position data, security master data) from one or more third party alternative investment management firms;
      • Data sourcing from financial platforms including Blackrock Aladdin and Wall Street Office; and
      • Data integration with one or more EDM platforms such as IVP (Indus valley partner) EDM.
    • Utilizing experience with:
      • Programming Languages: Python, Node.js, Flask
      • Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript
      • Cloud Technologies: Snowflake, AWS, AWS Services - S3, EC2, Glue, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Docker, VPC, Amazon CloudFront, CloudWatch, Amazon API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancing
      • Scripting Languages: Python, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL/PLSQL, T-SQL.
      • Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux
      • Database: SQL Server, Snowflake, MongoDB
      • Data Modeling: Dimensional and Relational Modeling, Star Schema
      • Version Control Tools: Git, AWS Code Commit, TFS
      • Build Automation Tools: Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild
      • IDE: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, Notepad++
      • SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
      • Other Tools: Jira, Confluence, Postman, Microsoft Visual studio, Lucid


  • Position may be eligible to work in a hybrid remote model and is based out of and reports Aflac offices in New York, NY. Applicants must be able to work onsite at Aflac offices in New York at least 3 days per week.
  • Salary Range: $104,976 - $140,000


Recruitment: Apply online or email resume to Heather Manderson, Corporate Counsel, Aflac,
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