Senior Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer

We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. This position is for a senior staff software engineer in the personal lines IT organization. The personal lines development team is passionate for technology and strives to build well architected and innovative solutions for the business. Personal lines has adopted scrum and development methodology and core agile engineering practices such as continuous integration and test-driven development. This position will have the overall end-to-end technical accountabilities for a sub value stream. The role requires frequent leadership functions that demand strong planning, estimating, collaboration, and application design/development and communication skills. You will lead design teams and development of technology solutions to address personal lines business needs. You will help develop the next generation of systems for various value streams.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on technical lead for one or more scrum teams, accountable for technical deliverables on invest and maintenance projects through the software development life cycle, including validating the completeness of estimates, quality, and accuracy of technical designs, build and implementation.
• Proactively address technical issues and risks that could impact project schedule and/or integrity of the application environment.
• Work closely with stakeholders to design and document solutions that align with the business needs and also consistent with the architectural vision.
• Mentor and train project team members (including sourcing partners) to enforce development guidelines and best practices.
• Coordinate between multiple disciplines (architects, business analysts, project managers, and customers) and developers to design, develop, implement, and support complex business solutions.
• Perform detailed technical reviews including code review to ensure the quality of the deliverables is high.
• Must have a strong working experience as designer/developer of REST API, SOAP web services, both as consumer & provider.
• Experience creating APIs with XML/JSON data structure is a must.
• Experience defining and negotiating XML/JSON based contracts with various stakeholders.
• Hands on experience with developing XSLT style sheets-based transformations.
• Perform hands-on development work as needed using .NET, ASP.NET, C#, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, Angular, JSON, and SQL.
• Prior experience with duckcreek suite of products policy, billing, insights implemented on "duckcreek on demand cloud" and integrations experience with 'onprem' applications strongly preferred.
• Thorough understanding and experience using relational databases preferably SQL server and/or Oracle.

Leadership Functions

• Leads IT design and development teams to implement solutions.
• Ensures technical and business requirements for applications are in compliance with enterprise reference architecture.
• Ability to support multiple work streams and constantly prioritize work for self, as well as for the team.
• Identifies and resolves gaps in skills, processes, and resources.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, mentors, and monitors progress of the team.
• Works with stakeholders and technical areas to identify nonfunctional requirements.
• Develops guidelines for capturing technical and business requirements.
• Lead IT development team to implement enterprise solutions.

Minimum Requirements

• Advanced degree in computer science or related discipline with a minimum of 10-12 years of work experience in application development.
• 7+ years of experience in driving application designing including, converting business needs into solutions, lead solution option analysis by providing/evaluating multiple options and creating roadmaps for solution delivery.
• Working experience with cloud (AWS preferred) hosted application and integrating with non AWS based applications.
• Working experience with duckcreek products policy, billing, and data insights preferred.
• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Rally, SonarQube, etc.
• Experience with agile development frameworks like 'scaled agile', scrum, Kanban.
• Experience in designing & developing high performing application that has high concurrency supporting over 2000+ concurrent users.
• Experience using Microsoft SSIS & SSRS tools strongly preferred.
• Experience in front end web technologies and frameworks: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, Angular/React ASP.NET, C#.
• Knowledge of P&C (property & casualty) insurance is a plus.
• Knowledge of implementing solutions through Gen AI (artificial intelligence) is a plus.

This role will have a hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 training plan endorsement for this position.

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency, and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of the Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.