What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Engineer position at Ascot Group?
Job Description
This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.
Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.
The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric.
Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre-and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.
The Product Engineer reports to the AVP, Systems, and plays a critical role in supporting the ever-expanding Ascot’s US based operations.
As our business continues to grow, we have a need for a dedicated Product Engineer on our product implementation team. This is a cross-functional team responsible for product speed to market. The Product Engineer plays an essential role in introducing new products and programs, configuring policy admin system to support those new products and programs, ensuring the system changes are delivered to specification and function as expected. This individual partners with underwriting, legal, operations, project management office, and others to accomplish goals and objectives. The qualified candidate will have strong communication and engagement skills, demonstrated ability to deliver on time-sensitive projects, and a passion for working in a fast-paced environment.
Essential Functions And Basic Duties
Company Benefits
The Company provides a competitive benefits package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):
Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, AD&D, Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program), and more
Leave Benefits: Paid holidays, annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state /local paid leave where required), Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Other leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, Adoption, Maternity, Military, Primary & Non-Primary Caregiver)
Retirement Benefits: Contributory Savings Plan (401k)
This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.
Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.
The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric.
Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre-and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.
The Product Engineer reports to the AVP, Systems, and plays a critical role in supporting the ever-expanding Ascot’s US based operations.
As our business continues to grow, we have a need for a dedicated Product Engineer on our product implementation team. This is a cross-functional team responsible for product speed to market. The Product Engineer plays an essential role in introducing new products and programs, configuring policy admin system to support those new products and programs, ensuring the system changes are delivered to specification and function as expected. This individual partners with underwriting, legal, operations, project management office, and others to accomplish goals and objectives. The qualified candidate will have strong communication and engagement skills, demonstrated ability to deliver on time-sensitive projects, and a passion for working in a fast-paced environment.
Essential Functions And Basic Duties
- Provide support for successful product launches and program implementations, modifications, enhancements and ongoing maintenance.
- Support launch of new Lines of Business set-up for the product, rater mapping, form upload and tagging, system workflow definition etc.
- Interact with various vendors and other development teams to coordinate custom development, report building and general application support for new product and program launches
- Interact with various Lines of Business to understand their products and system requirements to manage those products
- Define, document and maintain business workflows with respect to system interaction
- Debug issues identified by business users in Live or Test environments by debugging root cause and define solution plans
- Support Business as Usual (BAU) requirements such as updating event codes, new policy form uploads, creating document tags etc.
- Liaise with Operations, Legal, Data and other teams to coordinate efforts and ensure smooth product launches
- Ad hoc projects and responsibilities as assigned
- Bring best practices and collaboration as the company grows
- At least 4 years’ experience in configuring and supporting P&C Policy Admin systems for Underwriting Services
- P&C / Specialty Insurance industry experience a plus
- Visio and workflow design skills is a plus
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Solid communication skills – verbal, written and presentation
- Ability to quickly adapt to new and evolving situations
- Ability to solve problems, work independently and plan to meet deadlines
Company Benefits
The Company provides a competitive benefits package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):
Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, AD&D, Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program), and more
Leave Benefits: Paid holidays, annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state /local paid leave where required), Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Other leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, Adoption, Maternity, Military, Primary & Non-Primary Caregiver)
Retirement Benefits: Contributory Savings Plan (401k)
