ICT DevOps Engineer at CIC Insurance

PURPOSE:

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Software Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and maintain software applications and systems, with a strong focus on backend development, databases, and overall performance. This role requires experience with backend frameworks such as Spring, Django, and Node.js, as well as database expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL. Familiarity with frontend frameworks like React is also essential. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that align with user needs and business goals.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with other software developers to deliver quality products and solutions by ensuring that development follows established processes.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy software applications using Python, Java and JavaScript.
• Debug and resolve software issues, optimizing code for performance and scalability.
• Contribute to the planning and development of new features and system architecture.
• Ensure software documentation is complete and up to date.
• Debug and resolve software issues, optimizing both application code and database performance.
• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Employ agile development approaches to improve on the quality and quantity of software solutions.
• Translate business needs into system requirements for development.
• Design and implement new solutions/systems – including software configurations for optimal performance.
• Promote collaboration with all stakeholders – project management, business users, external vendors etc to facilitate seamless realization of technology value to business.
• Assess hardware and software needs for business and provide options/recommendations for improvements/change where applicable.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and understand business objectives for AI/ML projects.
• Design and develop ML models and algorithms to solve specific business problems, such as recommendation systems, classification tasks, clustering, and regression.
• Work on data pre-processing, feature engineering, and model selection to optimize performance and accuracy of ML models.
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to gain insights from data and identify patterns or trends relevant to the problem domain.
• Train, evaluate, and validate ML models using appropriate metrics and techniques, such as cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, and model interpretation.

Academic and Professional Requirements

Education  

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.    E

Experience Required:

 Description    Required years of experience     Need Type

• Minimum of three (3) years’ relevant experience
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript.
• Experience with web development frameworks React, Django, Spring.
• Experience with backend software applications using frameworks such as Spring, Django, Node.js.
• Familiarity with version control tools like Git.
• Ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and database triggers.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Knowledge of API integration and backend development.
• Experience with building and integrating RESTful and Soap APIs.
• Proven experience in developing and deploying ML/AI solutions, with expertise in machine learning algorithms, techniques, and methodologies.