What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Configuration Analyst position at Americo Financial Life and Annuity?
Senior Configuration Analyst
Job Summary: The Sr. Configuration Analyst will perform Oracle configuration to develop new products, enhance existing products, and support business processes. The person in this role should have significant experience with the Oracle Insurance Policy Administration system (OIPA), should be able to estimate work and achieve assignments with little to no direction, once familiar with Americo’s environments.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Configuration (review requirements, estimate work, configure solutions, unit test)
- Understand technical designs and artifacts provided by architects and senior team members. Contribute to artifacts as needed.
- Provide guidance and mentor junior configurers
- Provide configuration leadership on projects as needed.
- Provide environment support as needed (migrations, reboots, scripts, etc). Understand cycle and take responsibility for resolution efforts.
- Respond to production issues with urgency.
- On-call & emergency support
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Working knowledge of life insurance and annuity industry
- Knowledge of project management techniques and methodologies
- Understand OIPA database structure
- In-depth knowledge of standard insurance industry common transactions and procedures
- Able to interpret business requirements and translate into system rules
- Understand and code XML and SQL and supporting tools
- Excellent communication skills
- Build trusting relationships with associates at all levels of the organization
- Ability to facilitate meetings, reach consensus and resolve conflicts
- Aptitude for technical solutioning based on business and technical capabilities of systems
- Ability to work with limited supervision
Education:
- Four year degree or equivalent years of experience
Americo: We’re in this for life!
The roots of the Americo family of companies date back more than 100 years. Americo is a Life Insurance, Medicare Supplement Insurance, and Annuity company providing innovative products to our customers. At Americo, it’s the people who make things work, so we hope you join us!
For more information about our company, please visit www.americo.com.
What you’ll love about working at Americo:
- We offer a comprehensive paid training program that will make you feel prepared and excited about your role.
- We place true value in work/life balance. We offer generous Paid Time Off and Company Paid Holidays to all associates.
- Health and Well-Being: We are proud to offer subsidies to support your health and fitness goals by providing gym membership subsidies
- Prepare for your Future: Americo offers a 401(k) with a company match
- Opportunities to Give Back! We support several local organizations like Ronald McDonald House, Hope Lodge, American Red Cross, Harvester’s, and many more.
- Company Culture and Team-building: Americo participates in Kansas City Corporate Challenge, hosts company-sponsored events, and bring ice cream and coffee trucks on-site to show our appreciation
- We are conveniently located in Downtown Kansas City, within walking distance to top attractions and restaurants
- As an associate, you will receive complimentary paid parking near our Americo offices
