Developer Mastery

Developer Mastery

Location: Springfield, MA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid local to Boston/Springfield/NY expected in office 3 days per week; Fridays must work remote; remote acceptable for non-local candidates; East Coast hours required

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Pay Rate: $103.57 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Fridays must work remote; East Coast hours
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

This engagement is built on a Financial SME Partnership Model in which Financial will provide ongoing subject matter expertise and guidance throughout the engagement. Vendor resources are expected to operate in a collaborative discovery model, partnering closely with internal Financial Product Owners, Calculation SMEs and Leads, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, BIRT SMEs, Engineering Leads, and QA partners. Resources should be comfortable working where deep Financial domain knowledge is supplied by internal SMEs and the vendor contribution is structured discovery, analysis, technical assessment, documentation, and modernization planning.

Financial is seeking 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.

Financial is evaluating upgrades to Financial Design GUI, report generation capabilities, and the calculation engine currently powered by DXC VP/MS with Financial customizations. The target direction is to support a more modular, API-driven product calculation and rules capability that can be wrapped, abstracted, and incrementally modernized. AI-assisted analysis and development tools such as Claude AI and GitHub Copilot are expected to be used, where appropriate, to accelerate discovery, documentation, code analysis, and prototyping. The primary outcome is to produce actionable discovery findings, options, risks, dependencies, and roadmap recommendations for Financial planning and vendor alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Use Financial SME input to accelerate current-state discovery and validate understanding of business rules, calculation flows, reporting dependencies, and platform constraints.
• Partner with Product Owners and Calculation SMEs/Leads to clarify product behavior, actuarial logic, customizations, validation expectations, and business priorities.
• Partner with Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects to align findings with target-state architecture, modernization patterns, API/service direction, and sequencing options.
• Document questions, assumptions, decisions, risks, dependencies, and open items in a format that Financial SMEs can review and confirm.
• Do not independently define future-state recommendations without Financial SME review; recommendations should be co-developed and grounded in Financial architecture, product, and operational context.

Expected Deliverables

• 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.
• Financial 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.

Required Skills

• Engineering depth: 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

• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This client is a leading financial services organization operating across the Eastern U.S., with its headquarters in the Springfield, MA area. Employing professionals across engineering, architecture, data, and product domains, the organization serves a diverse portfolio of insurance and financial products including life insurance, annuities, and illustrations and is actively investing in enterprise modernization. Teams here include software engineers, solution architects, enterprise architects, calculation SMEs, and QA professionals who collaborate across structured, agile delivery programs.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-10944 Industry: Software Engineering