Group Enrollment Platform

• application: Beazley Group Portal


• client: Beazley


• project date: Nov 2014 - May 2015


• summary: Real-time, mass-employee, health insurance enrollment platform that submits to backend, Java/WMB enrollment services.

Project Description

Beazley had a group enrollment platform where the companies could only enroll one employee at a time using a wizard-based flow.

The task for this project was to overhaul this group enrollment platform to facilitate real-time mass-employee enrolling. We were tasked to:

• Allowed bulk, asynchronous adds/changes of employees and coverages
• Integrate into the existing Beazley Employer Portal that their groups use
• Ensure fast performance and real-time enrollment processing

Contributions

I worked on a team of developers that worked directly with the business unit as well as the middleware teams who provided the real-time enrollment processing web services.

Some of the tasks we split up amongst ourselves were:

• Designed interactive jQuery UI allowing adds and changes on one screen
• Submitted enrollments to a backend Java/WMB XML web service using AJAX
• Added real-time status tracking of new enrollments and changes

On top of these design & development tasks, I took on the job of predicting, organizing, and estimating every task we all had to do to ship the product.

Challenges Overcame

This project was the largest undertaking I had to date in terms of cross-team coordination:

• WMB Team - Managed queues and inter-application communications/mapping
• Business Rules Team - Validated business rule on XML request from us
• Java Team - Transformed validated XML request into 834 flat file for Admin
• COBOL Team - Issued policies & changes on the mainframe

Accomplishments

The greatest accomplishment of this project was that our system saves the insured companies/groups dozens of hours every enrollment period, reducing their frustration and increasing their satisfaction as Beazley customers.