Job Description

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

This position involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely: Monday & Friday / on site: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Assists and supports the development and maintenance of cost-effective application software utilizing knowledge of tools, concepts and principles to construct and deliver software in direct support of customer business needs across all internal development platforms.

• Interact with customers and other Systems department personnel to design, develop and maintain business applications that effectively support the NYL/Tampa Operations business customers.

•Assists in the evaluation and analysis of vendor system software packages to meet business requirements.

•Provides recommendations on methodology and development environment improvements. Uses knowledge and experience in solving complex problems.

•Performs complex and varied programming, based on specifications, utilizing appropriate development tools, common routines and interfaces using internal development languages (i.e., RPG, Visual Basic, Java, C#, DOC1, StreamSure, etc.).

•Designs, develops, maintains and supports multi-platform application systems to increase productivity and promote reusability.

•Develops a sequence of programming steps translating business model specifications into detailed system component specifications, including file design and operating instructions.

•Supports the creation of test plans and debugs programs.

•Examines job requests from user departments for feasibility and impact on current applications systems.
•Designs, develops, maintains and supports multi-platform application systems to increase productivity and promote reusability

•Performs other assignments to comply with business strategies and initiatives.

•Recommends resources to complete job requests.

Requirements:

• Project Management experience including the ability to coordinate, through the full project life cycle, the efforts of project team members including end-users, vendors and internal systems staff.

•Strong analysis and design skills with a focus on system design and flow.

•Experience with designing and implementing high volume, mission critical, productions systems.

•Must be a team player.

•Ability to work with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.

•Experience in a Windows desktop environment.

•Self-starter with the ability to learn through on the job experience.

•3-5 years of development experience in RPG/400, RPG-ILE

•3-5 years of development experience in CL

•Working experience with Service Programs, ILE Modules, bound programs, binding directories, etc.

•Working experience with Aldon Change Management tool

•Working experience with IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client (Eclipse)

•Working experience in IBM DB2 and SQL

•Working experience with exposing iSeries programs for web applications (stored procedures, web services, etc.)