Calculation Platform Modernization Developer / Engineer

Propertyvalue Computer Merchant, Ltd.
Springfield, MA, United States
24 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$197,600.0 - $208,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Application Integration Architecture Cloud Computing Static Program Analysis Programming Tools Microsoft Office Reverse Engineering Enterprise Software Applications GitHub Copilot Office365 Technical Debt
+3 more
Api Design Code Restructuring BIRT Reporting

Job description

  • Technical architecture assessment for calculation platform, Design GUI, reporting, and integration dependencies.
  • Inventory of critical VP/MS customizations, interfaces, calculation touchpoints, and modernization constraints.
  • BA-quality discovery documentation including requirements, stakeholder inputs, current-state flows, gaps, and risks.
  • Upgrade options analysis for Financial Design GUI and calculation engine components.
  • Conceptual target-state architecture for modular product rules, pricing, scenario, and calculation services.
  • Risk, dependency, validation, and sequencing recommendations for phased modernization.

Engagement Success Criteria

  • Technical discovery produces enough detail to support vendor sizing, roadmap planning, and architecture decisions.
  • Has clear recommendations on what to wrap, refactor, upgrade, prototype, or defer.
  • Risk areas such as calculation/result parity, actuarial validation, reporting dependencies, and integration complexity are clearly identified.
  • Developers can operate independently in discovery conversations, not just implementation tasks.

Vendor Notes:

  • This role should be senior enough to operate as both technical investigator and architecture partner.
  • Vendor submissions should not include purely hands-on coders unless they also have BA/discovery capability.
  • Experience with insurance calculation platforms is preferred over generic rules-engine exposure.
  • SME guidance will be available from Product Owners, Calculation SMEs/Leads, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, BIRT SMEs, Engineering Leads, and QA partners; resources must be collaborative and able to convert SME input into clear discovery outputs and roadmap recommendations., JOB DESCRIPTION: A senior calculation systems Developer/Architect to support technical discovery and modernization planning for the enterprise calculation platform. The role will assess the existing DXC VP/MS-powered calculation ecosystem, understand Financial customizations, evaluate upgrade options for Financial Design GUI and the calculation engine, and help define a future-state service-based architecture.
  • Modernization Context Area
  • Positioning
  • Modernization context
  • Client is evaluating upgrades to Design GUI, report generation capabilities, and the calculation engine currently powered by DXC VP/MS with Financial customizations.
  • Target direction
  • Support a more modular, API-driven product calculation and rules capability that can be wrapped, abstracted, and incrementally modernized.

AI expectation :

  • Use AI-assisted analysis and development tools such as Claude AI and GitHub Copilot, where appropriate, to accelerate discovery, documentation, code analysis, and prototyping.

Primary outcome :

  • Produce actionable discovery findings, options, risks, dependencies, and roadmap recommendations for Financial planning and vendor alignment., * Analyze the technical architecture of the existing calculation platform, including VP/MS model usage, integration points, data inputs, and calculation outputs.
  • Reverse engineer Financial-specific customizations, interfaces, and dependencies around the DXC VP/MS-powered calculation engine.
  • Perform BA-style discovery with business and technical stakeholders to capture requirements, pain points, current-state flows, and decision points.
  • Evaluate technical upgrade paths for Financial Design GUI and related calculation authoring or modeling capabilities.
  • Assess API, service, batch, reporting, and downstream integration touchpoints that depend on calculation outputs.
  • Partner with BIRT reporting SMEs to understand report engine integration points, data dependencies, and upgrade considerations.
  • Identify candidate areas for wrapping, abstraction, modularization, or replacement using product rules, pricing, projection, and scenario services.
  • Use Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, and approved tools to accelerate code analysis, documentation, and proof-of-concept work.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of enterprise software engineering, architecture, or legacy-system modernization experience.
  • Calculation systems
  • Experience with product calculation engines, rules engines, pricing logic, projections, or highly configurable business rules platforms.
  • BA/discovery skillset
  • Required for all Developer candidates as well: stakeholder interviewing, requirement elicitation, process and dependency mapping, current-state documentation, gap/risk identification, and business-facing recommendations.
  • Integration architecture
  • Strong understanding of APIs, service orchestration, data contracts, dependency mapping, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Legacy assessment
  • Ability to reverse engineer older platforms, document technical debt, identify coupling, and recommend phased modernization options.
  • Insurance technology
  • Experience in life insurance, annuities, illustrations, product definition, policy administration, or financial services technology.
  • Communication
  • Ability to translate technical findings into executive-ready recommendations, risks, and roadmap options.

Preferred Skills / Nice-to-Have Experience:

  • Dimension
  • Expectation
  • VP/MS or DXC platforms
  • Hands-on experience with DXC VP/MS, Vantage, Assure Product, or comparable product/modeling platforms.
  • BIRT reporting & Office 365
  • Experience with BIRT report engine configuration, templates, data sources, rendering, or modernization.
  • Along with O365 Expert knowledge.
  • AI-assisted engineering
  • Practical use of Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools for code analysis, refactoring, documentation, and POC acceleration.
  • Cloud/API modernization
  • Experience designing modular product services, calculation services, decision services, or strangler-pattern modernization approaches., Education: BA

Benefits & conditions

  • While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM’s discretion.

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