[Remote] Senior Calculation Platform Modernization Developer / Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Computer Merchant, LTD (TCM) is seeking a Senior Calculation Platform Modernization Developer / Engineer to support technical discovery and modernization planning for their enterprise calculation platform. The role involves assessing the existing calculation ecosystem, evaluating upgrade options, and defining a future-state service-based architecture.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Ability to reverse engineer older platforms, document technical debt, identify coupling, and recommend phased modernization options
- Experience in life insurance, annuities, illustrations, product definition, policy administration, or financial services technology
- Ability to translate technical findings into executive-ready recommendations, risks, and roadmap options
- Hands-on experience with DXC VP/MS, Vantage, Assure Product, or comparable product/modeling platforms
- Experience with BIRT report engine configuration, templates, data sources, rendering, or modernization
- Expert knowledge of Office 365
- Practical use of Claude AI, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools for code analysis, refactoring, documentation, and POC acceleration
- Experience designing modular product services, calculation services, decision services, or strangler-pattern modernization approaches
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Dependent care flexible spending account
- 401(k) plan
- Voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage
- Employee assistance program
- Sick leave in accordance with regulation
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