Work Location- Remote- United States
US Salary Range- $100K-$133K
https://www.exlservice.com/us-careers-and-benefits
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and support multiple client engagements within the Life Insurance and Annuity domain.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, and development teams to analyze business requirements and design effective technical solutions.
- Participate in project planning, estimation, and solution architecture discussions.
- Conduct design reviews and provide recommendations on application architecture, data flow, and system integration.
- Ensure adherence to Project Life Cycle Methodology, IT control policies, and corporate architecture standards.
- Prepare and maintain high-level and low-level technical design documents and specifications.
- Provide technical leadership to development and support teams across onshore and offshore locations.
- Drive code quality through code reviews, best practices, and development standards.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and adoption of emerging technologies.
- Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and market developments related to Life Insurance and Annuity products.
- Must be able to understand and leverage latest AI capabilities via enterprise tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and in-house Models to gain operational efficiency and high throughput.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong experience in Life Insurance, Annuity products, and Policy Administration Systems.
- Minimum 6+ years of experience in development, maintenance, and support projects involving Mainframe technologies, preferably COBOL, DB2/SQL, C#, and .NET.
- Minimum 6+ years of experience working with SQL databases.
- Strong understanding of Policy Administration System architecture and design principles.
- Experience working directly with clients and managing technical delivery across distributed teams.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Working knowledge of version control tools like Git.
- Working knowledge and understanding of AI tools and features like Skills, custom Agents, Custom instructions, MCP, hooks etc. for operational excellence with judicious token utilization
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and industry trends in the Life Insurance and Annuity sector.
- Experience with automation initiatives and modern software development practices.
- Professional certifications in Life Insurance, such as LOMA, are highly desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree in technology or Master's Degree in Computer Applications
Technical Skills
- COBOL and C#
- SQL
- .NET Framework
- Git and GitHub or any other Git Repository understanding
- API Design and Integration
- Technical Design Documentation
- Coding and Code Reviews
- GitHub Copilot and Claude Code
- Application Architecture and Solution Design
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities
- Self-motivated and results-oriented
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to lead and influence large cross-functional teams
Soft Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities
- Self-motivated and results-oriented
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to lead and influence large cross-functional teams
The posted range is the hiring range for this role — a subset of the broader range available to employees over time — and reflects base salary across our national hiring scale. Final offers are based on several factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, internal pay equity, work location, market conditions for the role, and the specific scope and responsibilities of the position. The top of the range is reserved for candidates who notably exceed the requirements; the lower end applies to those with less experience or fewer preferred qualifications. For positions based in higher-cost zones (e.g., California, New York, New Jersey), actual compensation may exceed the posted range; your recruiter will share specifics during the process.
Skills Required
- Strong experience with life insurance, annuity products, and policy administration systems
- 6+ years of experience in development, maintenance, and support projects involving mainframe technologies
- Experience with COBOL, DB2/SQL, C#, and .NET
- 6+ years of experience working with SQL databases
- Strong understanding of policy administration system architecture and design principles
- Experience working directly with clients and managing technical delivery across distributed teams
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Working knowledge of version control tools such as Git
- Working knowledge of AI tools and features including skills, custom agents, custom instructions, MCP, and hooks
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and industry trends in the life insurance and annuity sector
- Experience with automation initiatives and modern software development practices
- Bachelor's degree in technology or master's degree in computer applications
- Professional certification in life insurance, such as LOMA
- Experience with API design and integration, technical design documentation, coding, and code reviews
- Strong leadership, team management, stakeholder management, and cross-functional influence capabilities
What We Do
Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character. Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments. At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations. Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale. Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact. We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition. At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
