We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Project Manager who possesses excellent technical, leadership, communication, and execution skills to spearhead the Engineering and Strategy Implementation for our Commercial Insurance Auto product and platform. In this role, you will report to the Auto platform delivery lead and manage a collection of applications serving the Small Commercial and Lower Middle Market segments. You will be responsible for guiding the delivery engineering teams in strategic initiatives, tactical improvements, and ensuring overall system reliability and availability. Collaborating with the Leadership team, you will develop and implement strategies aimed at maintaining technical relevance and driving modernization efforts for the applications in your portfolio.

 

In this role, you will:

Manage and lead Auto 2.0 product and platform and end-to-end, including project execution, solution design, portfolio health, governance, delivery and planning adhering to strategy.  Work with project managers and engineers to ensure alignment of program deliverables to defined and engineer sound technical solution. Implement appropriate Agile and DevOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams. Author/create and review use cases. Create and maintain Epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Work with senior stakeholders to review product epics/user stories and get sign-offs promptly. Provide adequate technical and functional support on triage and resolution of any defects/control issues. Work with developers closely to review code, enforce best practices, debug critical issues, and conduct performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications. Drive engineering best practices across the portfolio, including Design, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, Cloud Implementation, etc.  Oversee and manage a team of engineers, business analysts, and scrum masters. Partner with business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver incrementally on the highest value work. Responsible for identifying and documenting technology risk and corresponding mitigation strategies. Implement and manage appropriate governance processes and tools while maintaining a key focus on Engineering delivery.  Responsible for assisting with project vision through product delivery by maintaining requirements traceability. Work with the business users to facilitate user demos, testing, sign-offs following the standard Agile process. Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solutions fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages. Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science or Engineering degrees preferred. Good understanding of Insurance business domains, especially in commercial property and casualty space.

Technical Skills

10+ years of hands-on engineering and delivery in Technology, including designing, building, deploying, and maintaining full-stack end-to-end software applications/solutions;  Extensive working experience in Scrum Agile, POD Structure, and attending Agile ceremonies. Experience in development of REST-based APIs (using C#, .NET), back-end capabilities (using NodeJS and Typescript), and front-end web apps (using Angular/React, HTML, and CSS), Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and/or SQL Server Experience & expertise in Cloud platform and solutions, e.g. Azure Blob, API Management, Cosmos DB, and AKS; Azure technical certifications a plus Experience in and knowledge of project management and planning tools – i.e. JIRA, Confluence, Office, etc.  Hands-on experience with cloud DevSecOps tools and practices including code quality, code coverage tools/frameworks, continuous integration, test automation, and continuous deployment pipelines Extensive knowledge and experience of underwriting platform architectures, from blueprint to solution design and implementation Exposure to Information Security and Risk Management Experience in cloud solution design and implementation of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and hybrid models Experience creating business process workflows and support product owner with integrated road map reviews. Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, strong communictools,kills (written and verbal), and be team-oriented. Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative, and user oriented. Able to determine and expertly communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability, and maintainability.

 

Foundational/Leadership Skills

Experience with agile delivery and execution, including Scrum planning, execution, governance, and reporting Proven track record of successfully managing and executing large scale, cross-functional initiatives – including implementing and maintaining key performance indicators for engineering and delivery  Expertise in building and sustaining engaged and high-performing diverse teams, with a culture of inclusion and performance management Deep passion for technology, with a focus on staying current with the evolving world of technology and needs of the business Leadership skills and emotional intelligence, including communication, facilitation, servant leadership, stakeholder/relationship management, negotiation, expectation management, and collaboration.