Sr. OIPA Engineer

Position Type: Contract
Location: Durham, NC (Onsite)

Description
Senior Software Engineer (OIPA) – FILI Technology


Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers in tax efficient savings, protection and guaranteed income in retirement? Fidelity Investments Life Insurance (FILI) Technology team in Personal Investing is seeking a talented engineers to join us in modernizing and building innovative and world-class experiences, capabilities and platforms in support of this mission.


The Purpose:
As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to leverage all of your skills in engineering, modernizing, and testing Annuity contract generation and account opening applications. You will be expected to quickly gain understanding of all the components of our applications and will work with the team to deliver best in class solutions.
4+ years of Expertise in developing policy administration systems using Oracle Policy Administration System (OIPA), including configuration language, integration, AS Files, data intake, database architecture, and data extraction patterns; building OIPA extensions; and performing palette and application security implementations, screens (policy, roles segment, allocation, and valuation), and release management.
Expertise in implementing design patterns, using UML
Test Driven Development, Junit, Jasmine, Karma, Protractor
IDE’s Spring Tool Suite, and Eclipse, within a UNIX and Windows environment.
Writing SQL queries and debugging stored procedures within an Oracle environment.
Leadership: Team player, self-starter, collaborative, innovative, eager to learn every day.
Understanding of docker, cloud-computing / cloud services platforms (e.g. AWS or Azure) will be a plus
AWS Certification is a plus
Hiring Manager Description










Position Description



Team/Project Overview


What does your team do/what are you trying to accomplish for Fidelity overall?

Oracle OIPA product for FILI - Team maintains and will be installing never version of OIPA (v10.2 and upgrading to v11)



Focus is to leverage single system to improve efficiency and bring new products to market faster; allows for configuration changes without customization or recompiling systems core code

How big is your team?

7

Is your team co-located?

Yes – Boston, Durham & MMK

(For Dev/Engineering roles) What is the tech stack on the team?

Oracle OIPA

Application Servers: WebLogic & WebSphere

Databases: Oracle, DB2 & Microsoft SQL

Operating Systems: Oracle Ent. Linux & Windows Server 2012

Java: 1.8

Java – Will be using for maintenance, installing, troubleshooting; will run libraries on machine to troubleshoot (not developing). Only will be expected to do around 10% of development

What project will this role focus on and how does this project impact the organization/Fidelity?

OIPA (Oracle Insurance Policy Administration) is a flexible, rules-based policy administration solution that supports policy issue, billing, collections, processing & claims in a single system. Team uses for Life & Annuity to accelerate and reduce operational efficiency through centralized policy management and record keeping.

What stage of the project are you currently in?

40% complete

If I were a candidate, what would get me excited about this position (what are the selling points)?

Working on cutting edge technology
Able work closely with Business users
Able to see results


Candidate Profile



Please describe your ideal candidate profile

Someone that has developed policy administration systems using OIPA

What are the top three MUST have skills (experience candidates must have coming in the door)?

(For Dev/Engineering roles) What coding languages are required for this job? What specifically will they need to develop using these? (API's, UI, Integration, Migration, etc.):


OIPA, Java and Oracle DB experience (simple SQL)





Need to only know Java so they can fix issues (maintenance role)



Expertise in developing policy administration systems using Oracle Policy Administration System (OIPA), including configuration language, integration, AS Files, data intake, database architecture, and data extraction patterns; building OIPA extensions; and performing palette and application security implementations, screens (policy, roles segment, allocation, and valuation), and release management.





What are the NICE to have skills (what is your team willing to teach the person)?

AWS Certification is a plus



What education or certifications does this role require?

Bachelor or Master in Technology related field

Is there a current team member’s profile that would be an ideal profile for us to target?

Fidelity Central: Tanaji Shingade (a598640) (fmr.com)









Interview Process



How many rounds of interviews will you have the candidate complete (ideally 1 round, max of 2 rounds with no more than 4 people total)?

1 round with panel team

Who will be on the interview panel and what will be covered (technical/behavioral/coding)?

Coach them to have a diverse interview panel

Please keep your outlook calendar up to date and encourage the interview panel to do the same



Sathiya to provide names

What role-specific pre-screening questions can our team use to help vet candidates up front?

N/A

Importance of timely feedback (competitive market, need to provide feedback within 24 hours)

Will commit to quick feedback



Senior Software Engineer (OIPA) – FILI Technology

The Purpose:

As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to leverage all of your skills in engineering, modernizing, and testing Annuity contract generation and account opening applications. You will be expected to quickly gain understanding of all the components of our applications and will work with the team to deliver best in class solutions.

4+ years of Expertise in developing policy administration systems using Oracle Policy Administration System (OIPA), including configuration language, integration, AS Files, data intake, database architecture, and data extraction patterns; building OIPA extensions; and performing palette and application security implementations, screens (policy, roles segment, allocation, and valuation), and release management.
Expertise in implementing design patterns, using UML
Test-driven development, Junit, Jasmine, Karma, Protractor
IDE’s Spring Tool Suite and Eclipse within a UNIX and Windows environment.
Writing SQL queries and debugging stored procedures within an Oracle environment.
Leadership: Team player, self-starter, collaborative, innovative, eager to learn every day.
Understanding of docker, cloud-computing / cloud services platforms (e.g. AWS or Azure) will be a plus
AWS Certification is a plus