Insurance Specialist

A Leading Life Insurance Company is seeking a technical Insurance Specialist to join its core IT management division in Mumbai. In this system architecture position, you will take responsibility for overseeing multi-project execution across critical Life Asia core platforms and peripheral business systems. Furthermore, you will collaborate with application analysts to prepare detailed functional specifications that match expanding user requirements. Consequently, this position is vital for driving digital product configuration and automating statutory regulatory reporting pipelines.

The Insurance Specialist must possess extensive hands-on developer background inside specialized legacy and modern insurance applications. Additionally, you will coordinate across cross-functional blocks, including Actuarial, Finance, and Product teams, to lead technical impact analysis and structural code reviews. Therefore, the company is looking for a software engineer with an intricate understanding of life insurance setups and SMART400 frameworks. If you want to deploy automated financial tools within an elite IT framework, this position is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple concurrent application software projects involving core insurance platforms and peripheral IT models.
• Liaise directly with technical consultants and system users to translate requirements into structured functional specifications.
• Coordinate and develop core technical enhancements, including comprehensive impact analysis and code review check-ins.
• Set up robust application technical architectures and map structural data streams across business platforms.
• Partner with cross-functional units such as actuarial, finance, and business solutions to ensure seamless implementation.
• Provide innovative process optimization suggestions to maximize application usage and reduce transaction errors.
• Serve as the definitive second-level technical escalation point for code bugs, system errors, and enhancement tracking requests.
• Oversee the end-to-end product delivery lifecycle for core Life Asia applications and platform configurations.
• Execute high-volume database reporting activities, extracting and manipulating complex tables using advanced SQL queries.
• Maintain up-to-date domain knowledge regarding life insurance product design, accounting criteria, and setup parameters.

Requirements and Qualifications

• B.Tech or B.E. degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or relevant technical disciplines.
• 5 – 8 years of total professional experience within a software engineering or application support environment.
• Mandatory minimum of 3 – 4 years of direct development experience operating within a Life Asia platform framework.
• Expert practical command over SMART400 systems, Business Objects, COBOL programming, and SQL database querying.
• Comprehensive domain knowledge of Life Insurance business logic and product configuration setups is mandatory.