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It’s a big ask, but it’s one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate - pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it’s a career with purpose. It’s a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future - including your own.\nThe CMD Illustrations team within Pacific Life Technology develops and maintains the desktop and web applications that financial professionals use to create life insurance illustrations. These illustrations help clients understand how Pacific Life products can meet their financial goals. The Illustrations Application Developer is a key member of a team responsible for translating business requirements into reliable, maintainable application code. In this role, you’ll work closely with analysts to understand functional needs and deliver high-quality software solutions that align with system architecture and coding standards. You'll be expected to write efficient, maintainable code using established development practices. Career progression in this role will typically involve increasing levels of responsibility in areas such as peer code review. As experience with Life Insurance and Annuities products grows, the Illustrations Application Developer will be required to collaborate with business partners and stakeholders to ideate and design features and functionality.\nHow you'll help us move forward:\nImplement Complex Life Insurance and Annuity Products\nEnd-to-End Development\nAnalyze Business Requirements & Technical Design: Analyze requirements and business objectives to establish testing scope and level-of-effort. Identify gaps in work requests, ensuring clarity and completeness.\nContribute to Process Improvements: Identify opportunities for technical/process improvements and efficiencies to reduce the complexity and increase speed in the application.\nConduct Code Reviews: Participate in peer code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards. Provide thoughtful, constructive feedback as well as peer-to-peer and group training to support team growth.\nSupport Timely Delivery and Execution Excellence: Identify and escalate risks or issues promptly and clearly to ensure they are addressed in a timely manner. Collaborate with our business partners on the timelines, risks, and issues.\nThe Experience You Bring:\nBuild new and modify existing life insurance and annuity products in our Illustrations platform, ensuring accuracy and alignment with product specifications and business requirements.\nUse .NET and proprietary tools to build maintainable, efficient, and well-documented code, delivering complete business solutions from design through deployment.\nAdhere-to and promote quality development processes, including performing unit testing, version control, and continuous integration.\nEvaluate and review complex product specifications-including actuarial formulas and business requirements for the User Interface and Illustration Output- to identify technical challenges, establish the development scope, and estimate the level of effort required for implementation.\nCollaborate with actuaries and other business units to validate complex scenarios and case designs specific to Illustrations.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience\n5+ years of experience in application development.\nStrong proficiency in Excel, VB.NET, C#, JavaScript. Html, CSS, JQuery UI, Bootstrap, SQL\nIntense visual/listening concentration required to trouble shoot problems and determine best solution; and to make informed decisions and recommendations\nSelf-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal supervision, while also excelling in a collaborative team environment.\nWillingness and initiative to learn both the technical and business aspects necessary to take ownership of and execute on key responsibilities.\nWhat makes you stand out:\nPrevious knowledge with the life insurance and annuity industry strongly preferred.\n3-5 years of experience working with life insurance and/or annuity products and riders.\nEffective communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\nFamiliarity with Agile development methodologies and experience working within sprint cadences.\nProven ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively across departments.\nYou can be who you are.\nWe are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. 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