Selective Insurance · 2 weeks ago
Software Engineering Manager (Hybrid)
Hartford, CT
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$133K/yr - $184K/yrSelective Insurance is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company recognized for its strong financial performance and commitment to employee uniqueness. They are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to oversee agile delivery teams, manage software solutions, and contribute to the strategic direction of Application Delivery within the organization.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
Manages implementations of new hardware and software solutions and the ongoing maintenance for insurance policy administration systems
Collaborate with managers (IT and business) to discuss system requirements, specifications, costs and timelines
Establishing and maintaining relationships with business and IT counterparts to ensure proper collaboration
Accountable for leading efforts around project scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring commitments and progress are monitored closely and communicated clearly
Forecasting and allocation of team members across several development projects
Regular reporting of key metrics like resource allocation, software defects, productivity, and efficiency
Trains, supervises, assigns projects to, evaluates, and is responsible for hiring/termination of information technology personnel and contracting staff
Talent management of team members to ensure high morale and appropriate advancement of individual goals and career aspirations
Participate in the evaluation, acquisition, and implementation of software to support business processes
Participation in and well-planned implementation of established quality improvement initiatives and processes
Qualification
Required
Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader by performing or leading the team to accomplish the following:
Supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust; seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation
Participating in various staff recruitment and retention activities
Coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback
Managing a cross functional team of engineers, and ensure tasks are assigned and delivered on time and on budget
Translating complex functional, technical and business requirements into architectural designs
Developing high-level application design and direct detailed design work of the developers
Developing proofs-of-concept and prototypes to validate and compare design alternatives
Performing cost/benefit and trade-off analyses of design alternatives
Defining high-level development tasks, provide estimates, and identify skills necessary for implementation
Guiding software engineers in the implementation of selected designs and strategies
Performing code reviews of critical parts of the systems
Demonstrates Extensive Abilities And/or a Proven Record Of Success Learning, Performing And Leading Teams In Functional And Technical Capacities, Including Following Areas
Architecting and deploying web-based and web-enabled business applications
Understanding of Angular, .NET Framework and SQL development techniques
Understanding of engineering patterns and technologies (Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), stateless distributed architectures, and designing for scalability and performance, especially within, .Net, HTML5, CSS3, and WCF technologies; event-driven and delegate-based design paradigms)
Leveraging knowledgeable in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), its principles, and patterns at the enterprise level
Demonstrating experience in data modeling techniques and knowledge and applicability of various normal forms
Demonstrating experience and knowledge of multi-tier and cross-platform architectures that are driven towards mobility
Developing IT architecture plans and software development methodologies; Understanding of Agile development environment especially SCRUM and SAFe
Coding Development, deploying distributed architectures and platforms, creating benchmark tests, designing for scalability and performance, and implementing large-scale vendor systems
Benefits
Comprehensive health care plans
Retirement savings plan with company match
Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program
Tuition assistance and reimbursement programs
20 days of paid time off
Company
Selective Insurance
At Selective, we maintain a commitment to provide unique insurance solutions that help keep the families and businesses of our communities protected.
Founded in 1926
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2025-02-25Post Ipo Debt· $400M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
John Marchioni
President and CEO
Patrick S. Brennan
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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