Senior Calculation Platform Modernization Developer​/Engineer

Position: Senior Calculation Platform Modernization Developer / Engineer
JOB TITLE: Senior Calculation Platform Modernization Developer / Engineer
JOB LOCATION: Remote
WAGE RANGE*: $95 - 100/hr w2 only
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REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 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 / Nice-to-Have Experience:

• Dimension
• Expectation
• 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, Git Hub 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.

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.
• 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.

Vendor Notes:

• This role should be senior enough to operate as both technical investigator and architecture partner.
• Vendor submissions should not include purely hands-on coders unless they also have BA/discovery capability.
• Experience with insurance calculation platforms is preferred over generic rules-engine exposure.
• SME guidance will be available from Product Owners, Calculation SMEs/Leads, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, BIRT SMEs, Engineering Leads, and QA partners; resources must be collaborative and able to convert SME input into clear discovery outputs and roadmap recommendations.

Education: BA

JOB DESCRIPTION: 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.

• Modernization Context Area
• Positioning
• Modernization context
• Client is evaluating upgrades to Design GUI, report generation capabilities, and the calculation engine currently powered by DXC VP/MS with Financial customizations.
• Target direction
• Support a more modular, API-driven product calculation and rules capability that can be wrapped, abstracted, and incrementally modernized.

AI expectation :

• Use AI-assisted analysis and development tools such as Claude AI and Git Hub Copilot, where appropriate, to accelerate discovery, documentation, code analysis, and prototyping.

Primary outcome :

• 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…