Our Health and Benefits business helps our clients control soaring health and employee benefits plans, improve health outcomes and promote employee engagement through broad-based, state-of-the-art interventions. We provide solutions encompassing creative plan design, vendor evaluation and management, pricing and funding strategies, data analytics, valuation support, legal and compliance, and governance strategies.
The Role
As an IT Specialist you will be part of the Regional Operations team and will play a key role in improving the global corporate platforms that support the operations management of Health and Employee Benefits policies for corporations in a variety of industries across the Latin America Region. You will work collaboratively with a talented regional team and with country and subject matter experts to adapt the software platforms to appropriately solve country and client specific scenarios, designing, building and improving the software components to continuously obtain operational efficiencies and provide an overall better user experience for the global operations team users located in Medellin and other users all across Latin America
We are looking for someone with programming knowledge, follower of best practices, with a comprehensive software life cycle discipline meaning wearing many hats from requirements through testing and deployment.
In this role you will work with a teams of varying roles so excellent interpersonal and communication skills are a must. You should value expertise and a passion for the craft of Software Engineering. You should be able to recognize and stay up to date on current technologies, practices and tools. Program software logic primarily using .NET. Work with country business experts and operations teams on eliciting and refining regional and local requirements. Work and communicate effectively in a team environment. Create technical and user documentation on the configured and rolled-out applications. Provide training to users as part of roll out activities.
The Requirements
Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in computer science, software engineering or a related field2+ years’ experience working in a developer role Have testing practices embedded as part of developing disciplinesGood at communicating ideas as well as hearing othersExperience with OOP and software design patterns and practicesAbility to organize, prioritize and to perform multiple tasks simultaneously with excellent attention to detail and follow-throughCollaboration with a global team, including taking accountability for quality on-time delivery of workStrong written and verbal communication skillsSelf-starter attitude and ability to work within ambiguityFlexibility and proven ability to diagnose and resolve issuesStrong analytical and creative skillsContinuous improvement mind-set – increasing task efficiency and effectiveness with each repetition and making recommendations for process improvementStrong client relationship, interpersonal and team skillsAbility to work both independently and on client teamsSense of accountability; owning one’s work and taking pride in it
Proficiency in English is required