Job Description

Job Description

We are Farmers!

Join a team of diverse professionals at Farmers to acquire skills on the job and apply your learned knowledge to future roles at Farmers. Farmers Insurance also offers extensive training opportunities through the award winning University of Farmers named by Training magazine amongst top 10 corporate training units in the world.

Job Summary

Codes and unit tests instructions for computer programs and performs analysis to ensure efficient use of computer resources and that the program specifications are met; recommends appropriate changes as necessary; provides documentation for the written programs according to the standards; works with business and responds to Production Support issues as required; conducts preliminary estimates (Rough Order of Magnitude) for the level of effort to add to/make changes to application functionality; analyzes and makes recommendations on the need for system backup, security, restart/recovery, balancing & controls, as well as data conversion, and recommends approaches for meeting such needs.

Essential Job Functions

* Codes instructions for computer programs/objects/components; configures packaged software; tests and implements all changes to ensure they meet specifications.
* Documents and implements programs according to installation standards and conventions.
* Quality checks program code, related objects and documentation.
* Responds to Production Support issues.
* Works with business as required.
* Analyzes programs to ensure that they efficiently use computer and storage resources; recommends appropriate changes as necessary.
* Conducts preliminary estimates / Rough Order of Magnitude for the level of effort of new/change to application functionality.
* Analyzes and makes recommendations for the need for system backup, security, restart/recovery, balancing & controls; recommends approaches for meeting such needs.
* Analyzes and documents the requirements and approaches to data conversion and data modeling.

Physical Actions

Physical Environment

Education Requirements: High school diploma or equivalent required. Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent, relevant experience.

Experience Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent or specific relevant experience.

Special Skill Requirement

* SAFe training/certification, a plus.
* May require occasional travelling.
* Good written and oral skills in local language.
* Language: Core Java/J2EE (JDBC, LDAP, Servlet, JAXB, EJBs, etc.)
* Framework: J2EE MVC, Spring MVC, Spring boot, Spring Batch, Struts & JSF, ORM Frameworks - Hibernate & JPA.
* API: Web Services , SOAP Service & REST Services etc.
* Application Server: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Http Server, Oracle Glass Fish, JBoss & Tomcat.
* Databases: DB2/AS400, IBM UDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL
* UI: HTML, JSP, CSS, Bootstrap CSS, Java Script.
* Middleware: IBM MQ, JMS, Mule etc.
* Testing: Junit Framework.
* Utility Tools: SOAP UI, Postman, REST Client, WinSCP, Putty, WinSQL, HP ALM, JIRA & Rally.
* IDE: Eclipse, IBM RAD, NetBeans & IntelliJ.
* Configuration Tools/ Source Code Version Control: Git Hub, Bitbucket & SVN.
* Integration & Build Tools: Jenkin, Ant & Maven, etc.
* Application Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Wily Introscope etc.
* Operating Systems: Windows, Linux.

Job Location(s): US - MI - Caledonia, US - OH - Independence, US - OK - Oklahoma City

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