Sr. Software Engineer

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 business-critical 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 we’ve 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 include the 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

• In-depth 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 problem-solving skills: ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and make recommendations
• Excellent communication skills with on-site 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 Vue.js, Angular & React
• Azure DevOps, Pipelines and CI/CD
• OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
• GitHub
• Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio