Senior Developer

Sydney, NSW
Permanent
Full-time

3 days ago
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Company Description

Be part of a team that invests in your growth, offering exclusive industry accreditation and a variety of learning experiences.
Join a company that fosters a culture of respect, resourcefulness, and inclusivity, allowing you to grow both personally and professionally.
Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times.

For over 150 years, we've never stopped finding better ways to protect Australians. As one of the nation’s leading life insurers, we’re driven by ambition and a sense of purpose. Our responsibility to our customers, partners, and the broader community is at the heart of everything we do.At TAL, we’re empowered to experiment, innovate, and create better products and services. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, one of the world’s largest insurers, we deliver financial security to millions of Australians through our care and expertise. Bring your curious mind and ambition to shape our industry and help us become the progressive, digitally enabled, leading insurer we aim to be.Job DescriptionThis Senior Developer is responsible for the development of Group Life Insurance applications and other tools/applications. This role will require you to translate business requirements into high quality, technical solutions whilst contributing to the culture of continuous innovation within the team and will require in-depth technical knowledge of the Group Life applications in a short time, TAL’s agile delivery methods and the Group insurance business domain.If you have prior experience in developing with cloud platform as a service resources or are willing to develop themselves in this respect, this could be the role for you. Candidates with experience in modern, cloud-based API development will receive particular consideration.In this role, you will:

Understand the technology strategy and systems roadmap for Group Life and produce technical designs that are in alignment
Break down user stories into tasks and provide sizing estimates
Develop reliable, usable software which meets business requirements within the required timeframes while minimising technical debt
Develop efficient, effective, secure and highly available solutions
Provide Level 3 support for the software that the team builds
Script and execute automated tests as required
Write user stories as required
Contribute to the strong culture of high quality, continuous improvement and innovation by following existing standards, helping to identify and enforce improvements to standards as required and sharing ideas and experience
Contribute to the long-term maturity and future-proofing of the Group Life applications

Qualifications

IT or a related field qualification
8+ years as a software developer & 5+ years with .Net technologies including digital solutions development with modern UI/UX frameworks
In-depth knowledge of web development frameworks such as Angular, React and JQuery, SQLserver, services (including WCF/RESTful/microservices), front-end builds and components, modern API development, cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS
Experience with middleware technologies
Experience with Test Driven Development practices
Agile environment experience
Iteration Management experience.

Additional InformationTAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:

An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
Reconciliation Advocates – Read our

. * We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.

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—we’re here to support you.You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.#LI-HybridEveryone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.If you are already a TAL employee please apply via the SmartRecruiters button in Workday and navigate to the Employee Portal. This is important to ensure that your application is recorded accurately.

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