Guardian Life Hiring for Solutions Architect at Chennai, India Full Time

Job Description:

Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management

• Understand the project’s Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution.

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting

• Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s).

• Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project.

• Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues.

• During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality.

• Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly.

• Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.

• Participate in project review meetings.

• Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules

Qualifications:

• Should have worked on end-to-end development project, possess excellent communication skills and has prior direct client facing experience.

• Strong understanding of OOPS concepts and project experience in C# .NET.

• Experience in working with design patterns

• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts

• Good knowledge of Application Performance Management

• Experience in working on Build Automation tools

• Experience in working on Agile/ Devops model and cloud related models

• Having micro services development experience is an added advantage

• Identify defects or observations that are potential impacts or risks for the functionality

• Come up with approaches for a given problem statement

• Design, build and maintain efficient and reusable C#.net code

• Design, build and maintain Microsoft .Net Web based applications

• Ensure best possible performance and quality of the application using project and standard best practices

• Help maintain code quality using project quality standard (or using tools)

• Design and develop web user interfaces (good to know frameworks such as bootstrap)

• Debug and Troubleshoot problems in existing code

• Develop unit test cases and perform unit testing

• Work on designing database tables, stored procedures, functions, performance optimization etc.

• Coordinate with AGILE team

• Maintain updates to TFS with the latest changes and appropriate status.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai

Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday

Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com .