Provides technical leadership and hands on development direction for all custom legacy COBOL application development for all of Gerber Life policy administration applications (product config, billing, collections, policy servicing, claims) and feeds to various downstream systems (workflow, document generation and fulfillment, general ledger, reinsurance, etc.) that enable end-end life insurance processing. Collaborates with all Gerber Life teams to advance the policy administration application architecture by evaluating, selecting and introducing new technologies that enable new capabilities (IMS and VSAM replacement with DB2, CICS replacement with UI development using web technologies, z/OS Connect for mainframe API introduction, IBM MQ and ESB introduction for effective integration with external systems, etc.).