Developer

Purpose of Role

To develop Product Writer schemes for Commercial insurance products enabling customer and business value to be

realised. The role holder will work as part of Commercial Change being responsible for the development lifecycle,

including internal systems, software house changes, scheduled releases, new products, product changes, bugs and

incidents.

Key Accountabilities

 Work in a squad alongside Pricing and Underwriting analysts, Test Engineers, fellow Product Writers and the

Product Owner. Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

 Construct, review, perform technical analysis and provide feedback on User Stories during Story Refinement.

 Contribute to planning, managing and resolving conflicts with other development activities throughout the life

of the project/change to ensure delivery against business priorities.

 Design and code Polaris ProductWriter logic to integrate products with third party proprietary systems, ensuring

efficient use of coding in order to minimise quote response times.

 Design and code Polaris ProductWriter logic to deliver rating, footprint and point of sale documentation

requirements for the DLG packaged and Commercial Vehicle product lines.

 Design, implement and manage the process for cyclical production releases for internal and external production

systems.

 Lead requirements gathering and solution design for new functionality with third party providers, integrators

and aggregators.

 Support for Test teams, project warranty and incident management processes. Review all faults identified, to a

level where the underlying issue is understood, recorded and resolution is managed through to completion.

 Initiate and lead internal review with key stakeholders (e.g. Underwriting/Pricing/IT/Exec) regarding mandatory

industry level changes, implement a timeline for resolution and manage DLG responses.

 Identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to my role, in line with the

company risk framework.

Key Competencies/level

Business: Project Management Level 1, working knowledge of general insurance products, particularly commercial

lines

Technical: Competent working knowledge of the host policy administration systems and/or competent in Polaris

ProductWriter, working knowledge of development methodologies, experience in analysing insurance products,

understanding underwriting rules and complex pricing algorithms to a level where underlying requirements can be

developed or configured to deliver the required solution.

PEF:

Achieve Excellence level 3, Influencing Level 2,

Collaborating for Success Level 2, Understanding Issues Level 2