Sr Programmer Analyst II - ONSITE

at  American National Family of Companies

JOB POSTING

The PolicyLink Team within Life and Annuity Systems is seeking a Senior Cobol Developer for our Galveston, TX location.
The successful Senior Cobol Developer is an experienced application developer who can pair technical concepts and skills with knowledge of the Company’s internal policies and procedures to solve complex problems in creative, effective, and efficient ways to support annuity product development. Significant initiative and independent judgement are required to complete these tasks within the context of established goals and objectives. This incumbent will primarily be responsible for enhancements, new development, and maintenance of annuity and payout administration systems.

Essential Functions and Duties:

• Communicates fluently with business representatives
• Understands business requirements and/or actuarial product specifications and can relate these to the supporting system requirements producing technical specifications for the work to be done
• Codes readable, reliable, and maintainable programs
• Performs testing of code changes
• Reviews test results with business representatives
• Provides optimal service to all internal and external customers
• Responds promptly to production issues by serving in the team’s on-call rotation for the 24-hour support of the team’s systems
• Works occasional night and weekend hours to meet target dates

Qualifications:

• Mathematics, Actuarial Science or IT-related bachelor’s degree, or application programming experience
• Four or more years of application development experience
• Advanced proficiency in programming with an emphasis in Visual COBOL, SQL Server, and REST, and/or SOAP
• PolicyLink experience is a plus
• Annuity knowledge is also a plus
• Accounting, valuation, and/or product development is desirable
• Experience with agile methods such as Scrum is a plus
• Agile mindset is a plus
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

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.

• Communicates fluently with business representatives
• Understands business requirements and/or actuarial product specifications and can relate these to the supporting system requirements producing technical specifications for the work to be done
• Codes readable, reliable, and maintainable programs
• Performs testing of code changes
• Reviews test results with business representatives
• Provides optimal service to all internal and external customers
• Responds promptly to production issues by serving in the team’s on-call rotation for the 24-hour support of the team’s systems
• Works occasional night and weekend hours to meet target date