Solutions Architect Guardian Life Insurance Company

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Job Description

You will be responsible for requirements elicitation, understanding, analysis, and management. Your role will involve understanding the project's vision and requirements, contributing to the creation of supplemental requirements, and building low-level technical specifications for a specific platform and/or service solution. In addition, you will need to engage in project planning, tracking, and reporting activities. This includes estimating tasks and resources needed for designing, building, and testing the code for assigned module(s), providing inputs for creating detailed project schedules, and supporting the team in evaluating risks and adjusting priorities based on unresolved issues. You will be expected to ensure that assigned project modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality during development and testing phases and communicate regularly with the team regarding development changes, scheduling, and status. Participation in project review meetings and tracking/reporting progress for assigned modules is also part of your responsibilities. To be successful in this role, you should have experience working on end-to-end development projects, excellent communication skills, and prior direct client-facing experience. A strong understanding of OOPS concepts, project experience in C# .NET, familiarity with design patterns, relational database concepts, and application performance management is required. Experience with build automation tools, Agile/DevOps models, and cloud-related models is preferred. Knowledge of microservices development is considered an advantage. Your tasks will include identifying defects or potential risks for functionality, devising approaches to problem statements, designing, building, and maintaining efficient and reusable C# .NET code, as well as Microsoft .NET web-based applications. You will be responsible for ensuring the best possible performance and quality of applications using project and standard best practices, maintaining code quality, designing web user interfaces, debugging and troubleshooting existing code, developing unit test cases, and working on database design and optimization. Collaboration with the Agile team and updating TFS with the latest changes and appropriate status are also part of your duties. This position can be based in Chennai or any other specified locations.,