Senior Pega Developer

Description

As a leading provider of annuities, MassMutual Ascend is committed to taking financial futures above and beyond. This means offering innovative products that fit our customers’ unique needs – whether it’s protecting their hard-earned savings, receiving guaranteed income or providing for loved ones. MassMutual Ascend is proud to offer customers a level of strength and stability they can count on for years to come.

The Opportunity

As we think about what we can do as a company to make things more innovative, our Pega platform is viewed as a solution. It is our innovative arm for business process automation and whether the automation is applied during the creation of filing for new products, the new policy issue stage, or policy owner services with improving customer service, the efficiencies that automation brings benefits both customers and our colleagues in our operations departments. Simply said, automation gets information back to our customers faster, helping us in delivering on our promise of superior service.

As a Senior Pega Developer, you will join a team with diverse levels of experience. The varying levels of experience allow a true collaborative learning environment in how we approach getting work done. Our team uses Pega cloud and the work you do will impact the development cycle from creating efficiencies in the interpretation of the business requirements, solutioning, coding the solution, testing it and then ultimately implementing it for the business. In this role, you will have a hands-on approach in working in a collaborative, agile team in the execution of the application design and also in sharing best practices with the team. This position has the ability to be either in our downtown Cincinnati location, or 100% remote wherever you may reside in the US.

Job Responsibilities

As a Senior Pega Developer, you will have impact on the organization through the below responsibilities:

• Developing within an agile scrum team along other Pega team members to build innovative business automation solutions
• Prepares detailed design user and technical flows.
• Designs, codes, tests, and debugs, work items.
• Collaborates with the Architecture Team for design approvals
• Consults with operational users or other IT Professionals to resolve production issues
• Provides estimates for planned work.
• Maintains and develops business knowledge and customer relationships.
• May have responsibility for performance and coaching of staff and may have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development, and performance management for direct reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in Pega PRPC Application Development
• Pega Certified System Architect certification (CSA)
• Ability to demonstrate strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Experience in Java and/or .NET development
• Ability to create and explain technical design flows
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues

Ideal Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Pega Certified Senior System Architect certification (CSSA)
• Experience with Pega version 8.4 and above
• Experience working within a Scrum team
• Experience with Rally or Jira
• Knowledge of web technologies including JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, and XML

What to Expect

• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
• Ongoing opportunities for development and learning
• Working in a fast-paced environment in our downtown Cincinnati, OH office
• A place to grow your career in a culture that inspires, rewards and develops employees
• Small company feel with a focus on meeting customer’s needs today and also well into the future

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Why Join Us.

At MassMutual Ascend, our collaborative culture is key to our success. It’s the reason we’re a leading provider of annuities today, and it’s the reason we’ll continue rising to the top tomorrow. A career at MassMutual Ascend means you’ll contribute to our mission of taking financial futures above and beyond – and you’ll be inspired to reach your own goals, too. As a wholly owned subsidiary of MassMutual, MassMutual Ascend continues to be an employer of choice in the Cincinnati, Ohio community.

MassMutual Ascend Life Insurance Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.

At MassMutual Ascend we focus on ensuring fair, equitable pay by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees. Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component. For more information about our extensive benefits offerings please check out our Total Rewards at a Glance..