Polaris 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 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 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 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