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Working Business Language: This role is considered a head-office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.
Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $80,000 - $115,000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa, we're proud to offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. Preferably you will work from Winnipeg, MB but you may work from any of the following locations: Wawanesa, MB; Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Lethbridge, AB; Toronto, ON; Kitchener, ON; Thunder Bay, ON; Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC; Moncton, NB; Dartmouth; NS
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, founded in 1896, is one of Canada's largest mutual insurers, with over $4 billion in annual revenue and assets of $12 billion. Wawanesa Mutual, with executive offices in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa General, which offers property and casualty insurance in California and Oregon; Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada; and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than two million members in Canada and the United States. Wawanesa actively gives back to organizations that strengthen communities where it operates, donating well above internationally recognized benchmarks for excellence in corporate philanthropy. Learn more at wawanesa.com.
We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Job Overview
Wawanesa is looking for an exceptional candidate to take on the role of Application Developer II (Intermediate) or Senior Application Developer in our expanding Pricing Excellence team. As a member of the Pricing Excellence team, you will contribute to Wawanesa's strategic priority of enhancing pricing sophistication by creating tools and processes that enable our Pricing team's to build predictive models and conduct the necessary analysis to support key pricing decisions.
Job Responsibilities
- Explore data and create production quality data pipelines.
- Design, develop, and test software.
- Prepare technical specifications from requirements.
- Maintain the operation of business systems and applications.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve application incidents.
- Participate in planning activities.
- Estimate and track progress of assigned work.
- Create and update relevant documentation.
- Follow established practices, processes, and guidelines.
- Keep current with relevant technologies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Completion of post-secondary degree or diploma in software development or equivalent experience.
- Two or more years practical experience performing an application development role building software using current programming languages/techniques and working with relational database systems and structured query languages, including Python and SQL.
- Detail oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills to recognize and identify issues and take proper action to resolve them.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with style fitting for the audience and message.
- Strong ability to work collaboratively in a team environment by making quality contributions and supporting fellow team members.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to self-manage a fluctuating workload, with various situations and changing priorities.
- Possesses a willingness to learn while keeping abreast of developments in field and have the ability to apply learning to new situations.
- Experience using software development tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, and AWS CodeCommit is considered an asset.
- Proficiency in R, and AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation is considered an asset.
- Certifications in relevant technology is considered an asset.
- Knowledge and experience in the Insurance industry is considered an asset.
Wawanesa is proud to be one of Manitoba's Top Employers for 2023 recognizing that we are an exceptional place to work!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Wawanesa is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse workforce that is equitable and inclusive for all. Wawanesa provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual's protected status: race/ethnicity, colour, religion, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family or marital status, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, or any other protected status. Disability or medical-related accommodations are available upon request throughout all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. Candidates requiring reasonable accommodations may contact, in confidence, jobs@wawanesa.com.
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