Charles Taylor plc Hiring for Senior .net Developer at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Job Description

Overview

Reference
667513 Salary
INR/annum Job Location
– India – Maharashtra – Mumbai Job Type
Permanent Posted
20 May 2022

Background

Digital innovation is reshaping the insurance industry – We’re making it happen. Charles Taylor InsureTech was established to help insurance businesses drive change through the delivery of technology enabled solutions. We don’t have a one-size-fits-all approach or prescriptive methodology. We work consultatively with our clients to revitalise their operations, reinvent established processes and implement future-ready solutions that deliver measurable benefit and improve data-driven decision making. Charles Taylor is a global provider of professional services and technology solutions dedicated to enabling the global insurance market to do its business fundamentally better. Dating back to 1884, Charles Taylor now is currently in more than 120 locations spread across 30 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Charles Taylor believes that it holds a distinctive position in its markets in that it is able to provide professional services and technology solutions in order to support every stage of the insurance lifecycle and every aspect of the insurance operating model. Charles Taylor serves a diversified blue-chip international customer base that includes national and international insurance companies, mutuals, captives, MGAs, Lloyd’s syndicates and reinsurers, along with brokers, distributors and corporate insureds. Charles Taylor has three distinct business areas – Claims Services, InsureTech and Insurance Management. Charles Taylor was recently acquired by an investment company managed and controlled by Lovell Minnick Partners LLC. Lovell Minnick is a US Private Equity firm that invests in the global financial services industry, including related technology and business services companies, with a focus on helping to build long term value for clients, employees and shareholders. The acquisition will support the continuation of Charles Taylor’s successful growth strategy, with a focus on expanding client relationships, broadening specialist capabilities and the range of services and technology solutions, deepening geographic coverage, and reinvesting in quality of service and technology. For more information, please visit www.charlestaylor.com

The Role

We are now hiring Senior .NET Developers to join our business to build new innovative systems for insurance industry and support existing IT applications. The role is based in Mumbai, India and is fully remote. This will be part of our newly established and ongoing engineering capability growth in India with future potential onsite travel as and when situation permit. This is an exciting time to join us as we significantly develop our technology business, and individuals can expect to work with high quality colleagues in a fast paced, growing environment that offers great career prospects. We are seeking highly motivated, intelligent .NET software developers who are looking to work on exciting projects using the latest technologies. All projects are being developed using agile project management and development techniques and experience in this area is essential.

Key Responsibilities

Working with colleagues and clients/users to:

• Investigate and model business functions, processes, and information flows and data structures, using methodical and consistent techniques.
• Investigate operational requirements and problems, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in information systems, data management, processes/procedures, organisation, and equipment.
• Specify information flows, processes/procedures, and data objects that will meet the business requirements. Consults with IT specialists in areas such as software engineering, data management, communications, and service delivery and takes account of their recommendations.

Working alone or as part of a team to:

• Analyse the underlying issues arising from investigations into requirements and problems, and identifies available options for consideration.
• Assist colleagues/clients/users in defining acceptance tests for automated systems, and take responsibility for their proper execution.
• Put in place mechanisms and procedures for the structured review of work produced and ensure that these are adhered to.

Personal responsibility to

• Design, code, test and document particularly large, complex or mission critical programs.
• Define, plan and justify (in business terms) projects to develop/implement automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Provide expert advice in some or all aspects of the programming methods, tools and/or standards used in CTC.
• Provide advice, guidance, and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
• Apply available standards, methods and tools in an intelligent and effective way, and to produce a consistently high standard of documentation of both a technical and a descriptive nature.
• Demonstrate and role model the Charles Taylor six Values by ensuring a Supportive Environment, upholding Excellence in People, focusing on Partnership with Clients, delivering High quality Work, promoting Group-wide Entrepreneurship and having an Appetite for Change.

Required Skills

Essential

• 8-10 years of overall experience
• Commercial development experience using Microsoft technologies including C# and SQL Server
• Advanced knowledge of ASP.NET MVC and the surrounding technologies (ASP.NET MVC, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery)
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming principles (including GOF design patterns), Dependency Injection
• Experience working with TDD on a commercial project
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• Commercial experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Knowledge of ASP.NET Core
• Familiarity with Angular framework
• Experience building WPF applications
• Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server, Git, Subversion, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
• Insurance / financial services industry experience

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Passionate about software development
• An interest in Agile software development
• Focused on quality
• Committed to continuous improvement
• Happy to collaborate with peers to design best-of-breed software architectures
• Values honesty and integrity in oneself and in others
• Confident, opinionated and expressive
• Comfortable in a customer facing environment

Why join Charles Taylor InsureTech?

The Charles Taylor InsureTech team blends hands-on insurance expertise with fresh thinking from the worlds of technology consulting, financial services, ecommerce and beyond. As a newly established business which is part of Charles Taylor, we combine the agility of a start up with the security and scale of a corporate. The result is a pragmatic-yet-pioneering approach that we’ve used to help clients reimagine central market systems, launch self-service digital insurance products, automate regulatory reporting requirements and more. We are very proud of the fact that nine out of ten of our people recommend Charles Taylor as a place to work. We pride ourselves on having a positive work environment where our people are empowered to make the best decisions and where learning is valued highly and shared across our business. We are very committed to ensuring our people are given continuous learning and development. As well as structured induction programmes and job training, we provide study support for relevant professional qualifications and have a Core Learning & Development Curriculum.
Equal Opportunity Employer Here at Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.

Contact information

Ankur Chowdhury