Join us and help transform the life insurance industry.
A career with MIB means interesting and innovative work and collaborating with motivated and talented people as we work to advance the life insurance industry.
Career Opportunities
MIB is an industry leading company focused on improving the life insurance industry. Though we have been in this business for more than 100 years, we are a growing entrepreneurial company, using new technology, data solutions, and digital innovations to advance the industry in support of a noble cause—protecting families.
We are one of a kind in the life insurance market; and it is the caliber of our associates that enables us to achieve our mission: Become the partner of choice to the Life Insurance industry providing data solutions that enable our clients to manage risk, gain efficiency and grow profitably.
We are looking for innovators, collaborators, problem solvers, and strategic thinkers who want to make a difference—for the industry, for the families who buy life insurance, or who should as part of a sound financial plan, and for the communities where we live and work.
In exchange for your talents, we offer competitive compensation, equity and benefits along with a results driven culture, built upon our core values, and the opportunity to work for a market leader. We recognize in today’s environment, job applicants have many choices. We work every day to be an employer of choice by collaborating as cross-functional teams, trusting in each other, remaining accountable and driving success as shareholders in our company.
We have a range of career opportunities including:
Business development (adding value to the insurance industry)
Product owners and business analysts
Project management
Information technology
Software engineering and development
Quality assurance and automation
Database support
Infrastructure
Actuarial, statistical and data analysts
Administrative, managerial or career fields
OPEN POSITIONS
Join a progressive organization that is bringing innovation to the life insurance industry as we think like clients, act like owners, and make a difference!
If you enjoy exploring new technologies and are looking to participate in transformative software development, then we want to talk to you!
In this hybrid role located in the greater Boston area, we are seeking a Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master. You should embody a passion for continuous improvement. Successful candidates will have excellent communication skills, be a great collaborator with strong analytical skills, learn from setbacks and is accountable for success.This position is ideal for candidates who are flexible and willing to operate in a bimodal environment, Agile and traditional SDLC. Responsibilities include managing and facilitating the planning, design, coding, testing, implementation and onboarding customers for cross functional/high profile projects/program to support MIB’s goals and objectives.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
Education: A Bachelor's degree, preferably in information technology-related field
Experience: 7 - 10 years’ experience in project/program management (successfully managing multiple concurrent projects from inception to production rollout)
Experience: 5+ years’ Scrum Master experience in a software development environment
Skills:
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience with Agile techniques like; User stories, prioritization, backlog tracking, refinement, burndown metrics, continuous integration, automated testing and facilitating retrospectives.
- Ability to interact with diverse personalities, while being tactful, mature and flexible
- Team builder and experienced facilitator
- Partner with the Product Owner (and Business Line Owner) on all business and IT driven initiatives within the program and ensure proper prioritization, planning, resourcing, and execution.
- Ability to negotiate and navigate priority of multiple initiatives across different functions.
- Highly organized, detail and process-oriented
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Experience with a software development lifecycle (SDLC) and general software development
- Ability to influence others and demonstrated ability to deliver projects on time & to budget.
- Proficient in MS products, including MS Project.
- Knowledge of and experience with Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, strongly preferred.
- Experience with the Atlassian products, such as Jira, Confluence, Tempo, desired.
- Experience with Lucid products, desired.
- Experience with AWS, desired.
CERTIFICATIONS: PMP (Project Management Professional) and Scrum Master, strongly desired. AWS Cloud Practitioner, nice to have.
GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
(This is a representative list of the general duties the position may be asked to perform, and is not intended to be all-inclusive)
- Represent the PMO, be a trusted partner in the organization, lead projects assigned to closure.
- Requires wide-ranging collaboration with customers, other scrum teams, security, and infrastructure partners.
- Basic Project Management: Knowledge of project management principles and the ability to apply the principles, tools, and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute projects or work plans to ensure successful completion (e.g., on time, within budget).
- Manage all projects and coach/mentor project teams & project managers in assessing and tracking the RAID Log (Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions).
- Be a Leader: Deliver results, creating value for MIB, key stakeholders and our customers.
- Ensures compliance of his/her projects to the MIB policies and procedures and assists the PMO on maintaining the policies/procedures for MIB.
- Accountable for assisting with the continued process improvements of the MIB processes, procedures and templates for managing projects.
- Manages, coordinates and facilitates project activities and subsequent tools/templates by implementing goals, strategy, scheduling, as well as contingency plans.
- Manages and communicates the progress of the established milestones for all projects assigned.
- Facilitates project status meetings with the project team in order to review progress and close/address issues/risks.
- Provides weekly/monthly status reports to the organization/PMO, showing progress and issues/risks.
- Ensures that projects follow the MIB methodology process and that required project artifacts are completed and stored in the designated project workspace (ie. Confluence/Teams/SharePoint).
- Scrum master is responsible for monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings. He/she increases their team’s efficiency, motivates the team, and works with the team to make the appropriate changes that will ensure quality and timeliness. He/she ensures the observance of the Definition of Done.
- Inspire others to do their best, demonstrate the passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible.
- Develop self and support of others’ development to achieve their full potential.
- Compliant with the MIB general policies and standards and Core Values:
- Thinking Like a Client
- Acting Like an Owner
- Making a Difference
Join a progressive development organization that is bringing innovation to the life insurance industry as we think like clients, act like owners, and make a difference!
If you enjoy exploring new technologies and are looking to participate in transformative software development, then we want to talk to you!
In this hybrid role located in the greater Boston area, we are seeking a hands-on full stack engineer with experience in developing performant, user-friendly software systems. You should embody a passion for continuous improvement and test-driven development. Successful candidates will have excellent communication skills, be a great collaborator with strong analytical skills, learn from setbacks and is accountable for success.
Education / Skills & Experience
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science required or a combination of equivalent educational experience
- Skills & Experience
- A minimum of 5 - 7 years’ experience in software development
- Extensive Java Development experience and object oriented development knowledge
- Experience in test and task automation in an agile development environment, utilizing rapid development techniques and DevOps
- Experience or knowledge of micro-services and other service oriented architectures and design methodologies (like BDD/DDD)
- Full stack development experience
- Experience turning requirements into software design specifications
- Understand prioritization and balance own work without guidance
- Participate in code reviews
- Proficiency developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed-environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows
- Clear communications (oral and written) and willing team player
- Experience with Java, functional programming, XML, XSLT, JDBC, ORMs, thread-safe programming
- Experience with Spring Framework & Spring Boot
- Experience with UI frameworks like Angular, React as well as JavaScript, etc.
- Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito
- Experience working with DevOps and build automation tools like Docker, Gradle, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory etc.
- Experience with queue technologies like RabbitMQ
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
- Experience with scripting languages like Python, Shell, etc.
- Experience with application servers such as NGINX, Tomcat
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS
- Experience working in an agile environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, RDS
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
- Experience with secure programming practices
- Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Experience with Behavior Driven Design (BDD)
- Proficiency with HTML 5 and CSS and SCSS
- Experience with central logging tools such as Datadog
- Experience with Healthcare integration, FHIR HL7, CCD/CDA
General Duties & Responsibilities
(This is a representative list of the general duties the position may be asked to perform, and is not intended to be all-inclusive)
- Analyze, design, code, test, debug, maintain, and document software components in accordance with MIB’s software architecture and software development processes
- Participate in application performance tuning
- Ensure developed applications adhere to MIB security model / policies
- Ensure that deliverables meet the project requirements, including timely delivery and quality (reliability, performance, and maintainability)
- Contribute to the creation of project schedules by providing estimates related to effort, duration, and completion of assigned tasks
- Adhere to MIB’s processes for change / configuration management
- Find innovative ways to improve quality and productivity
- Provide ongoing technical support for external / internal users of software components
- Participate and effectively contributes in a team environment, in accordance with MIB’s Core Values
- Communicate effectively with other MIB technical units as well as business stakeholders to facilitate the development process to ensure the attainment of MIB corporate goals
- Participate in a skills growth path to promote achievement of corporate goals as recommended by the Department Manager
- Comply with all applicable and departmental software policies, standards, and practices including all standards relating to Security and Disaster Recovery
Candidates may directly apply via the link or send resumes to hr@mib.com
MIB employees are a family, and we care about each other and what we do. On a daily basis, our teams work together to develop and implement strategy, enable life insurers to identify and mitigate risk, and provide first class customer service.
While we have been around for more than 100 years, we are continually evolving to meet the industry’s changing needs. On the one hand, we are an established and well-respected company, dedicated to setting the standard for the industry. On the other hand, our work environment feels like a startup—entrepreneurial, mission-driven, and focused on quickly and efficiently bringing new services to market.
Culture
We are proud that MIB is one-of-a-kind in the insurance market—member-owned consortium, with associate shareholders. And we believe how we conduct ourselves is as important as the work we perform on behalf of our clients. We value integrity, excellence, innovation, and agility.
We are committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment and conduct pre-employment drug testing and background checks.
We know that how we conduct ourselves is as important as the work we perform on behalf of our clients. Our core values drive how we conduct ourselves as individuals, teams, departments and as an organization overall.
Think Like a Client
- Anticipate Needs – listen, respond & communicate proactively
- Exceed Expectations – go above and beyond
- Deliver Added Value – in everything you do
Act Like an Owner
- Think Strategically – focus on long-term benefits
- Be Fiscally Responsible – spend $/resources like it’s your own
- Own Results – be passionate, innovative, agile & resilient
Make a Difference
- In Your Work – be accountable for your attitude, effort and results
- With Your Teammates – be kind, collaborative & encouraging
- In Your Communities – embrace our mission to protect families
MIB provides competitive wages, equity, opportunities for incentives, and comprehensive total rewards as a leader in the market.
Our Total Rewards include, but are not limited to, the following benefits*:
- Medical, Dental, Vision and Rx plans
- Variable incentive compensation plans
- Stock options
- 401(k) Retirement Savings plan with a 50% match up to 6% and a 3% non-elective contribution
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Basic Life Insurance and AD&D up to 2 times base salary with supplemental options
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Long-Term Care
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Auto/Home, Legal Services, Pet and Identity Theft insurance plans
- Paid time off including vacation (3 weeks) and holidays
*Subject to change
We provide several professional development opportunities including, but not limited to:
- Continuous, on-line, self-service training platform for all associates
- Leadership Institute development program
- Insurance industry training
- Technical/subject matter expert (SME) training and knowledge
- Development in various career fields
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Sponsorship of professional certification exams
We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity, without regard to race, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or other legally protected status, for all persons, based solely on an individual's qualifications and fitness. MIB's policy regarding equal employment opportunity applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, benefits, wage and salary administration, scheduling, disciplinary action, termination, and social, educational and recreational programs.
