What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Application Developer position at Farm Bureau Financial Services?
Do you have proven success providing strong technical leadership, analysis, and application development across a variety of platforms and systems throughout an organization? If so, this Lead Application Developer position may be a great fit for you!
Who We Are: With Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We’re proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.
What you’ll do:
- You will analyze, design, develop, administer, implement, and support mainframe members that support P3.
- You will support best practices in the design, development, and deployment of code to facilitate enhancements to databases, files, and reports.
- Work with other IT teams and accounting to ensure data output with the highest quality.
- Develop new and maintain existing applications of the highest complexity as per specifications including developing application code, testing completed applications, and develop required documentation as defined by company development standards.
- Oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems and applications.
- Conduct research and maintain high level of knowledge in systems software/hardware to ensure operations and implementations are of the highest quality. Assist the business with process improvements where needed.
- Keep Application Development Manager, Project Manager, and team members informed on status of deliverables.
- Give guidance and direction, as needed, to development staff on technical matters.
- Create functional design of principle system components and formulate system scope, objectives, functional requirements and deliverables.
- Design complex technology configurations to satisfy business requirements and create, execute and maintain project plans for complex systems.
- Lead the integration of new systems and recommend new technology.
What it takes to join our team:
- College degree or equivalent plus seven years relevant experience required.
- Five years’ experience in insurance or finance data processing preferred.
- Knowledge of data handling methods, development techniques and one or more development programming languages.
- Oral and written communication skills as appropriate to this position.
- Reasonably regular and predictable attendance.
- Ability to read, write and speak the English language.
What We Offer You: When you are on our team, you get more than a great paycheck. You will hear about career development and educational opportunities. We offer an enhanced 401K with a match, low cost health, dental, and vision benefits, and life and disability insurance options. We also offer paid time off, including holidays and volunteer time, and teams who know how to have fun. Add to that an onsite wellness facility with fitness classes and programs, a daycare center, a cafeteria, and even an onsite medical clinic. Farm Bureau....where the grass really IS greener!
If you are interested in joining a company that appreciates employees, provides growth and professional development opportunities, and offers great benefits, we invite you to apply today!
Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.
