At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2023 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2023.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Summary:

Selective's Claims IT Team is seeking a Technical Lead who is a creative and forward-looking software engineer focused on solution design, development, and implementation. As a key member of the team, they will lead, participating in the design and architecture of solutions within their respective team while collaborating with business partners, technical architects and security to understand roadmaps and help build out a technical path of solutions fitting within established application development standards and conventions. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys the challenge of identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies which assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate robust technical knowledge, working with architecture, security, and our team to develop and deploy solutions that align with our application development framework & standards.
• Viewed as a technical expert within the technologies used to support their respective business application(s) being involved from design taking ownership including consulting development staff in all phases of the development and deployment process.
• Reviews specs, design and code and recommends changes including continuous improvements to development team members to align with approved, application development framework.
• Maintains a sound understanding of the business processes that those applications support.
• Performs analysis, systems design, coding and/or integrates purchased solutions. Documents, tests, implements, and provides on-going support for applications.
• Provides comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of the project development life cycle. May involve project manager or other leadership role crossing IT systems, applications, and/or infrastructure teams.
• Communicates effectively to different audiences, including business stakeholders, senior leadership, and developers.
• Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for the systems design. Participates in setting technical direction in conjunction with the architecture, data base, and infrastructure groups.
• Provides highly technical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies which assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives.
• The ability to work with vendor and vendor products.
• Migrates legacy, dated application technologies to current technologies.
• Continually looks for opportunities to improve developer productivity and the overall change management process.
• Recommends, and provides guidance, in the areas of application performance and tuning.
• Works closely with customers to identify and specify complex requirements and processes for diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, tools, etc.

Qualifications:

• College degree in Computer Science, Management Information Science, or related field preferred.
• 5 years of experience in software application development and maintenance required with web development experience which includes C#, VB .NET, SQLServer, Azure, Agile methodologies required.
• Experience with a BPM platform is preferred.
• Proficient in Json, XML, Restful services as well as Soap services.
• Experience with Vendor solutions/SaaS solutions/Cloud recommended.
• Informatica, IIB, Java or Zena Scheduler experience is a plus.
• Claims competencies is a plus.
• Requires excellent communication skills, analytic ability, strong judgment, and the ability to work directly with customers and IT management and staff.
• Project management experience including proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to easily move between multiple projects at any given time.

Salary range: $125,000 - $167,600. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.

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