Configuration Engineer – L2 @DARWIN

Company:Mercer

Description:

THE ROLE & YOUR MISSION

• Have a good understanding all processes and ways of working in Configuration Engineering
• Be aware of Darwin’s capabilities and limitations
• Create Darwin-wide configuration based on clear specifications, using Darwin Configuration Language
• Interpret and translate business requirements for benefit templates, into technical requirements
• Update / Fix Darwin wide configuration based on change requests / bugs
• Follow the DCL standards in terms of naming and design of the configuration file
• Assist other CEs and Darwin Support teams with the debugging of templates
• Maintain an updated status for tasks, using the available tools (JIRA/Confluence) and meet agreed project deadlines and SLAs
• Produce documentation to reflect the content and available options of released templates, actively contributing to our knowledge base
• content and available options of released templates, actively contributing to our knowledge base
• Perform advanced complexity code and peer reviews
• Create very complex reports using DCL and Reward Centre layouts
• Validate advanced complexity and non-standard requirements
• Advises appropriate stakeholders on changes that might impact system functionality

YOUR EXPERIENCE & VALUES

• Excellent spoken and written English and Romanian languages  Ability to operate independently as well as in a team in a fast-paced, ambiguous, global environment  Able to prioritize tasks (own and team) and achieve objectives on schedule with high quality and with excellent planning and scheduling skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and work very well in a team
• Curious about new technologies and excited to find ways to implement them.
• Self-motivated with the ability to produce high quality work without supervision
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with a high attention to details
• Knowledge and experience of data serialization formats: XML, JSON
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• Knowledge and experience working with programing algorithms and notions
• Constantly improves code writing skills, learns new coding languages

Delivery & Project Management:

• Contribute to and define to standards and best practices consistently
• Estimates tasks accurately, plans and delegates assignments of work across project members
• Anticipates blockers, identifies dependencies of either product or technical nature and addresses them with the appropriate people
• Has a good level of autonomy - is able to take technical decisions on his own, balance priorities in their area of expertise, aligns with the delivery goals
• End-end delivery and ownership of small to medium sized projects
• Understands business needs and can challenge certain requirements
• Ability to gather, compile and process information from a variety of departments and stakeholders
• Collaborates with other colleagues outside direct responsibilities, cross-departments
• Reviews and analyses plans, templates, drawings, and/or various documents to ensure continuity of product design configuration.
• Provides insightful retrospective on projects
• Pioneer in new major features

Career Growth & Development:

• Constantly follows-up with colleagues who asked for help and need guidance
• Identifies lack of skills / knowledge gaps of colleagues and addresses them in a constructive way
• Gives honest feedback directly when asked about colleagues they work with
• Shares opportunities for improvements and recognizes achievements
• Aware of the backlog and actively picks up the next piece of work
• Involved in planning and delivery of Training / Enablement
• May hire, train, and oversee colleague staff in the department
• May oversee the scheduling, assignments and the daily tasks of colleague staff in the department.
• Subject matter expert on configuration engineering, constantly advising and guiding colleagues
• Offers mentoring and leads by example – provides career guidance, development opportunities and empowers colleagues to continuously learn and develop
• Provide honest, constructive feedback for colleagues, able to provide online training / courses / conferences for others in the team
• Proposes new ideas or process improvements and uses technology updates to come up with suggestions of improvements DCL/non-DCL oriented

OUR BENEFITS & CULTURE

• An opportunity to work in a fast-growing, innovative company with lots of room for progression and career growth;
• A fail-friendly environment that encourages learning and initiative;
• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);
• 30+ days off (25 legal days off , 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
• Performance Bonus scheme
• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;
• Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance;
• We champion flexible working, and our mission is to help you find YOUR work-life balance, whether that's standard working, flex-time working, or working from home.

As a company we are committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. Our teams will jointly identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which the full team will be together in person. This unwavering policy is carefully crafted to enhance team unity, inspire creativity, and foster meaningful interactions between our colleagues, to help build our culture and local communities.

Founded over 20 years ago, Darwin's main ambition was to change the world of benefits. Fast forward to the present day and it is leading the way as a cornerstone benefits technology product in the Marsh McLennan, (MMC), Tech portfolio. MMC are now building out their EMEA Technology Hub in Cluj, Romania.

MMC is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. It comprises the businesses of Marsh, Mercer, Guy Carpenter, JLT, Oliver Wyman and Darwin.

The regional hub will contain teams of Application Developers, Business Analysts, Project/Program Managers and other technology roles that require time zone overlap with clients in EMEA. As a regional hub we are equipped to scale our vast technical expertise through a variety of outputs, while helping to unleash our potential as one company, to effectively meet today's emerging challenges through the brilliant technology we build and deliver together.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.