Summary
The Senior Software Engineer requires a strong technical background/experience to be a key member of the team that develops maintains and integrates Jewelers Mutual businesscritical systems. Assignments require the individual in this position to act as an integral part of the development team to design and develop innovative solutions. Assignments often involve research in the application and/or business area and have a direct impact on assigned project schedules costs and performance.
WHY Jewelers Mutual
We are a financially secure exceptionally positioned and intellectually curious company driven by our core values of Agility Accountability and Relevancy! We continue to raise the tide of the jewelry industry weve served since 1913 through our innovative people our unyielding customer commitment and evolution of our products and services to be the most trusted advisor to all we serve.
With a generous benefits package office locations throughout the United States and a mantra of making your mark today consider evolving your career and shining bright with Jewelers Mutual Group!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities includethe following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Develops and may lead applications development
- Collaborates and may lead application designs
- May lead implement test and deliver new features for multiple platforms
- Coordinates with QA team to initiate testing and ensure testing is completed
- Designs framework and software standards and make suggestions for systems / software improvements
- Evaluates and improves application development process
- Works to understand customer needs and usage of the product the team supports.
- Collaborates well with scrum team members on design and development ideas and concepts. Accepts feedback and challenges status quo.
- Mentors other team members as needed
Problem Solving & Analysis
- Constant refinement of business and IT processes with the goal of recommending opportunities for cost reductions or greater efficiencies in alignment with company objectives.
- Leverages industry standards best practices and own expertise to determine solutions and anticipate issues
- Sees patterns and uses conceptual thinking to solve problems
- Collaborates with team and other SMEs to solve complex problems that do not have immediately known solutions requiring analytical and at times out of the box thinking
Decision Making / Autonomy
- Proactively collaborate with team to make decisions that translate into specific actions with a goal of implementing MVP in the short term with an eye to long term objectives
- Issues are escalated to Management
- Highly collaborative with scrum team
- Seeks to delight the customer with every deliverable
Communications / Interactions
- Has an informed opinion and is able to articulate technical issues and solutions to less technical management or leadership or to less senior team members. Has a persuasive argument but accepting of financial/time/other constraints that may impact decision making.
- Leads meetings with other teams to gain alignment and understanding
- Promotes a mentor/mentee relationship with less experienced team members
- Creates and delivers presentations and communications to peers
Leadership Responsibilities
None
Other Required Skills and Abilities:
- Indepth knowledge in problems solving database application servers application design and testing
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills: ability to write reports business correspondence and procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information to groups of internal and external project stakeholders across all levels of the organization
- Strong understanding and knowledge of Lean/Agile best practices DevOps SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) PLC (Project Lifecycle) and has a history of supporting team members on projects using various development methodologies (Waterfall to Agile)
- Demonstrates thought leadership through innovative creative problem solving that arrives at actionable next steps in alignment with desired business outcomes
- Ability to interact professionally with diverse groups executives managers and subject matter experts
- Approaches work in a structured systematic way organizing and prioritizing workload to meet demands of the team department and organization
- Understands enterprise and product priorities and escalates appropriately any deviations from those priorities
- Strong critical thinking and problemsolving skills: ability to define problems collect data establish facts draw valid conclusions and make recommendations
- Excellent communication skills with onsite and geographically disparate teams
- Thrives on collaboration working side by side with people of all backgrounds and disciplines
Technical Skillset Requirement:
- Azure Cloud Services (APIM Azure Functions Logic Apps Service Bus Etc.)
- Object Oriented Programming Design Patterns .Net Core C# .Net Framework
- MS SQL Database Stored Procedures & Triggers
- RESTful APIs
- Microservices
- HTML XML JSON JavaScript CSS REST and SOAP
- Modern UI frameworks such as Angular & React
- Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD
- OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
- GitHub
- Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio
Required Experience:
Senior IC