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Selective Insurance · 1 day ago

Director, Software Engineering (Hybrid)

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$149K/yr - $204K/yr

Selective Insurance is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a strong history of financial performance and a commitment to employee uniqueness. They are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to oversee agile delivery teams and deliver software solutions that meet business and customer needs, contributing to the strategic direction of Application Delivery.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

No H1B

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

Pega.NETAngularAgileService-Oriented ArchitectureData modelingUI FrameworksMicrosoft SQL ServerCoachingTeam leadershipCollaborationCommunication

Required

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Selective will not sponsor or assume the sponsorship of an employment visa at this time

Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader by 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 Pega architects and system architects, along with .NET/Angular developers, 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 and performing in functional and technical capacities, including architecting and deploying web-based and web-enabled business applications

Understanding of Angular and .NET Framework development techniques

Understanding of Low Code Platform development

Understanding of 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

Understanding of 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

Leveraging knowledge of web-based technologies; HTTP, AJAX, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery and CSS3

Understanding of UI Frameworks (i.e., Angular 4)

Understanding of Microsoft SQL Server and other most common backend Microsoft technologies

Understanding of Agile development environment especially SCRUM and SAFe

Messaging architectures (EAI), Excel Services, BizTalk, SAP XI, XML, SOAP, and Web Services

Messaging architectures SOAP and REST with JSON text encoding

Coding Development, deploying distributed architectures and platforms, creating benchmark tests, designing for scalability and performance, and implementing large-scale vendor systems