• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times. 
• Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success
• Enjoy benefits such as discounted insurance, health and well-being programs, and a range of employee benefits to support your lifestyle 

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.  

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.  

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.  

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer. 

As part of the Actuarial Systems team, this role is responsible for developing, testing, and supporting data solutions that enable actuarial modelling, reporting, and downstream business processes. Working across Microsoft SQL Server and Azure platforms, you will design and build production-ready data integration solutions, develop reconciliation and validation reporting, maintain database environments, and provide operational support for critical production processes.

This position is suited to a highly skilled technical specialist who can manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision. In addition to hands-on development and support work, you will help shape development standards and best practices, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement while collaborating closely with team members across project and operational delivery.

In this role you will:

• Design, build, test and implement Actuarial data systems and processes, integrating primarily with the TAL Data Platform, Prophet Enterprise platform and TAL Finance Platform.
• Assist with implementation of accounting standards AASB17, business planning solution changes and Finance reporting platform.
• Ensure that delivered products are secure, reliable, usable, efficient, effective and, where required, highly available and scalable.
• Develop technical designs for step-changes in the products.
• Ensure quality of code and adherence to platform frameworks and guidelines through code reviews and peer education.

• Experience in developing data pipelines in both traditional and cloud base environments using ETL methodologies.
• Strong technical background, ideally having worked as a developer for 5+ years, including experience with the Microsoft stack SQL Server, database, T-SQL, SSIS, Views and Stored Procedures as well as MS Azure technology stack in particular ADF, Azure SQL and a working understanding of Azure Develops
• Any other Azure related knowledge or experience in the following areas: Azure Synapse and Notebooks.

Desirable:

• Broad knowledge of application development tools, techniques and languages including C#, ASP.NET, IIS, JQuery, Azure DevOps, GIT, Python, R, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hub and Cosmos DB.
• 5+ years working experience, preferably in life insurance.
• Experience with Atlassian software workflow and documentation tools – JIRA and Confluence.

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. 
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.  
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you. 

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.   

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.  

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

If you are already a TAL employee please apply via the SmartRecruiters button in Workday and navigate to the Employee Portal. This is important to ensure that your application is recorded accurately.