About the position
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Project Manager who possesses excellent technical, leadership, communication, and execution skills to spearhead the Engineering and Strategy Implementation for our Commercial Insurance Auto product and platform. In this role, you will report to the Auto platform delivery lead and manage a collection of applications serving the Small Commercial and Lower Middle Market segments. You will be responsible for guiding the delivery engineering teams in strategic initiatives, tactical improvements, and ensuring overall system reliability and availability. Collaborating with the Leadership team, you will develop and implement strategies aimed at maintaining technical relevance and driving modernization efforts for the applications in your portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead Auto 2.0 product and platform and end-to-end, including project execution, solution design, portfolio health, governance, delivery and planning adhering to strategy.
- Work with project managers and engineers to ensure alignment of program deliverables to defined and engineer sound technical solution.
- Implement appropriate Agile and DevOps practices in collaboration with product delivery and operation support teams.
- Author/create and review use cases.
- Create and maintain Epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Work with senior stakeholders to review product epics/user stories and get sign-offs promptly.
- Provide adequate technical and functional support on triage and resolution of any defects/control issues.
- Work with developers closely to review code, enforce best practices, debug critical issues, and conduct performance testing to deliver efficient and performant applications.
- Drive engineering best practices across the portfolio, including Design, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, Cloud Implementation, etc.
- Oversee and manage a team of engineers, business analysts, and scrum masters.
- Partner with business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver incrementally on the highest value work.
- Responsible for identifying and documenting technology risk and corresponding mitigation strategies.
- Implement and manage appropriate governance processes and tools while maintaining a key focus on Engineering delivery.
- Responsible for assisting with project vision through product delivery by maintaining requirements traceability.
- Work with the business users to facilitate user demos, testing, sign-offs following the standard Agile process.
- Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solutions fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
