Applications Consultant

A career at The Auto Club Group (ACG) can be satisfying, exciting and rewarding. By aligning your professional development with our business objectives, ACG can help you attain your career goals — and make a difference. Get started by choosing the career that’s right for you.

Dearborn, MI

The Auto Club Group

AAA was founded over 100 years ago for the purpose of lobbying for driver and passenger rights, fair laws and safer vehicles — all to better promote the love of the open road and the adventure of driving. Since then, AAA has grown to over 50 million members strong, while providing valuable membership services such as roadside assistance. Additionally, AAA has broadened its horizons to include all types of travel-related services, as well as offer a variety of insurance and financial products and services. Today’s AAA is a national federation comprised of more than 50 individual clubs throughout the United States and Canada. Whether you’re traveling around the world or to the corner grocery store, planning a honeymoon or weekend road trip, learning to drive or in need of a battery boost, the best way to begin your journey is with AAA. http://michigan.aaa.com/

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Full Time

Competitive Compensation and Benefits Package

Overview: <strong>About ACG:</strong><br />The Auto Club Group (ACG) provides membership, travel, insurance, and financial services offerings to approximately 9 million members and customers across 11 states and 2 U.S. territories through the AAA, Meemic, and Fremont brands. ACG belongs to the national AAA federation and is the second-largest AAA club in North America.<br /><br /><strong>Compensation:</strong><br />The Auto Club Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits packages including a base salary with performance-based incentives; medical/dental/vision insurance, pension, 401(k), generous time off, a complimentary AAA Membership and much more!<br /><br /><strong>Work Environment:</strong><br />Works in a temperature-controlled office environment.<br /><br />
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Serves as a team leader/senior technical team member in the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and/or supporting complex to moderately complex new or revised processes, systems, or networks.</li> <li>Acts as an acknowledged expert in one or more technical specialties and/or mission-critical application systems, and provides leadership in design, development, and application integration.</li> <li>Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements.</li> <li>Develops an understanding of the Auto Club Group business strategy and competitive environment and translates and implements business strategies into technology solutions.</li> <li>Provides a high degree of technical and/or application expertise and design/programming leadership.</li> <li>Assists in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures to ensure the integrity and protection of company resources.</li> <li>Develops work plans and estimates projects and ensures that project team(s) and/or plan deliverables remain on schedule and budget.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <br /> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><u>Required Qualifications:</u></strong></span></p> <div> <p><u>Education:</u></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent level of work experience.</li> </ul> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Experience in/with:</div> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Designing, developing, implementing, or supporting complex to moderately complex information systems</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Building or supporting mainframe or distributed systems</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex business/technical problems</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Technology assessment, recommendations, and selection</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Providing technical consultation/leadership to project teams</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Staffing, coordinating/leading a large project team or a variety of small project teams</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Budgeting and expense control</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Mainframe, distributed, and/or Web-based system design and development</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Database management systems (e.g., IMS, DB, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">PC fundamental software tools (e.g. MS Office)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Programming languages (e.g., COBOL, JAVA, HTML, XML, C++)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Prototyping</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Database design</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Project management tools and techniques</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Multi-platform capabilities</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">User interaction</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">HTML and web development tools</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">System development tools (e.g. Endeavor, IMS Expert, Xpediter, SQA Team Test, Eclipse)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Integration</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Knowledge and Skills:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Relational database concepts</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Use cases, object-oriented design, and programming techniques</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Systems operation practices</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Security and control procedures</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Web server, and IP-level distributed technologies</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Evaluation of a complex system and understand the inter-dependencies between components</span></li> </ul> <br /><br /> <div><strong>PREFERRED:</strong></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Experience in an insurance environment or other service industry.</li> <li>Rational Unified Process (RUP) development methodology</li> <li>Joint Application Design (JAD)/Rapid Application Design (RAD) techniques</li> <li>Database modeling</li> <li>Rational Unified Process (RUP) development methodology</li> <li>Joint Application Design (JAD)/Rapid Application Design (RAD) techniques</li> <li>Agile methodologies/tools</li> <li>Service Oriented Architectures</li> <li>Programming Languages/Tools (SQL, MS .Net/C++/C#, JAVA SCRIPTING, HTML, XML, JSON)</li> <li>Web Services (REST and/or SOAP)</li> <li>Database modeling</li> <li>Analytical techniques to identify trends and produce aggregate representations</li> <li>Understanding of general business functions and concepts</li> <li>Developing and maintaining scope, schedules, cost estimates, and resource plans</li> <li>Experience in the Travel service industry</li> <li>Experience with Digital Technologies (eCommerce, Mobile Apps)</li> <li>Experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, AWS</li> </ul>