Company Information
Solid reputation, passionate people and endless opportunities. That's Travelers. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers - and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.

Job Summary
Travelers Business Insurance Technology has an exciting opportunity for a technology professional to join our team. You will be joining a dedicated team responsible for enhancing and developing new capabilities across multiple application solutions that support financial and actuarial reporting as part of the Analytics value stream. Specific functions supported are; loss reserving, external Workers' Compensation & DMV reporting, and statutory reporting. These strategic capabilities depend on a set of applications in a high-performance, scalable, high-availability setting to meet current and future Business Insurance demand.


Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Builds effective relationships with stakeholders - both technical and business. Utilizes business knowledge to explain technical activities in business terms
• Develop in an Agile/Scrum environment using development skills such as Paired Programming and Test-Driven Development
• Design and develop new applications/functionality that addresses the current business needs with an eye on optimization for future enhancement
• Embrace and seek out opportunities to refine and refactor existing code and processes. Potential to eliminate technical debit by modernizing mainframe-based processing functions.
• Ensures work complies with department's standards, processes, and protocols. Applies knowledge of current industry trends and techniques with a focus on Lean software delivery

Minimum Qualifications
High School diploma or equivalent required. 3 years of programming/development experience required.

Education, Work Experience & Knowledge
Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred. 5 years of programming/development experience preferred.

Job Specific & Technical Skills & Competencies
Technical Knowledge: Demonstrates advanced programming/configuration/analytical skills to achieve business and or technical requirements. Able to work independently to resolve discrepancies, defects, incidents or problems with understanding of the business and system impacts. Able to identify and exercise appropriate escalation communications. Demonstrates an aptitude for learning and applying new and/or updated programming languages, techniques, and/or software development disciplines. Demonstrates understanding of the supported business systems. Communication Skills: Ability to communicate thoughts/designs/ideas in an unambiguous manner and adjusts communication based on audience. Exhibits active and effective communication skills with team members - including active listening and effective written and verbal communication skills. Effectively contributes and communicates with the immediate team. Business Knowledge & Partnership: Able to clearly and concisely communicate with the business. Demonstrates willingness, cooperation, and concern for business issues. Able to understand assigned business unit and business priorities. Able to coordinate with other technical areas to achieve project/department or division goals. Problem Solving & Decision Making: Able to recognize, analyze, and diagnose business and technical problems, incidents, and defects of advanced complexity. Able to creatively evaluate alternative solutions Able to reuse previously completed processes. Demonstrates the ability to make routine decisions independently and recognizes when escalation is necessary. Team Orientation: Ability to build and foster relationships with team, business, and technical partners to achieve objectives. Practices objectivity and openness to others' views. Able to recognize and support team priorities. Leadership: Exhibits team leadership and collaborates with partners. Planning (Project Management): Able to manage time and competing priorities and provide management with accurate and timely status information. Able to accurately evaluate and estimate tasks. Financial Awareness: Able to understand how the project schedule relates to budget.

Environmental/Work Schedules/Other
Requires weekend work hours. Requires overnight work hours. Requires holiday work hours (Federal and religious). Requires extended periods (1 or more weeks) of travel as needed. Requires travel up to 5% of time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (+) years relevant hands-on software distributed development experience
• Working experience with version control (Git, SVN)
• Application development languages such as Java, Java EE, Node, and Python
• User Interface technologies such as HTML5, ECMAScript, CSS3 and frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and React
• Application and Service Integration Patterns such as Microservices, SOAP and RESTful endpoints, Messaging busses (JMS/AMQP/Kafka)
• SQL-based database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB/2. Familiarity with NoSQL platforms such as MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j is helpful.
• Parsing, manipulating, and formatting data formats such as XML, JSON, Flat file, CSV, XLSX, YAML in memory or processing constrained environments.
• Containerization platforms such as WebSphere Liberty Profile, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes

Physical Requirements
Operates standard office equipment. Requires extended periods of computer use. Requires extended periods of sitting.

Licensing or Certificates
Depends on the specific role but some examples may include: ITIL Remedy Java certification Microsoft certification.net Kanban/Agile/SAFe

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer.