JOB SUMMARY
Sr. Software Engineer. Creates and supports business solutions by contributing at a senior level in designing, re-designing, coding, testing, debugging, configuring and documenting products/projects according to specifications for the insurance business.
Key Responsibilities
Client Relationships and Communication
Ensures that requirement statements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible and unambiguous.
Interpersonal skills to establish good rapport, generate enthusiasm, negotiate priorities, and to resolve conflicts between various groups
Ability to work across teams including business analysts, project managers, and QA team
Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information to key people across the business
Provides input to the Development Manager in the creation of project plans, estimates, and schedules
Creates and delivers informative, well-organized presentations
Ability to effectively communication with third parties including data providers and software vendors
Impact Analysis
Able to design systems using known design methodologies and best practices.
Ability to design solutions that are easy to implement and maintain
Problem Solving
Analyze requirements/issues and make recommendations for an optimum solution considering time and resource considerations
Proactively finds and fixes quality issues and ensures that software applications are developed with minimal defects.
Research, coordinate, and track problems to resolution
Identifies critical issues with ease
Exhibits confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems
Proactively offers suggestions for areas of improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions
Takes initiative identifying performance issues in production and offers solutions to correct them
Required Qualifications
Proven leadership and ownership experience
Expert-level SQL skills
Strong middleware/web services experience
Full-stack development background (Java)
Ability to work independently and drive initiatives
Experience supporting business data requests and operational updates
Produces comprehensive technical documentation
Preferred Qualifications
Insurance industry experience
Experience owning enterprise applications
Contract-to-hire interest
