Software Engineer Lead Consultant - Remote

National General is a part of The Allstate Corporation, which means we have the same innovative drive that keeps us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. We offer home, auto and accident and health insurance, as well as other specialty niche insurance products, through a large network of independent insurance agents, as well as directly to consumers.

Job Description

The Software Engineer Lead Consultant architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

This role is responsible for the development of new applications and provide production support of existing applications by working with onsite-offshore teams in split shifts.

• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
• Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
• Provides support for software products in user environments
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices

• 4 or more years of experience in ASP.net, C#.net, , HTML, XML, JSON, JAVA script, SQL Server, MS-IIS.
• 4 or more years of experience in developing/supporting mainframe applications.
• Proficiency in COBOL, IDMS, DB2, VSAM, JCL.
• Minimum of 2 years IDMS database knowledge
• 24+ months experience in Lender Placed Insurance Tracking and Loss Draft business services, associated processes, systems knowledge, and hands-on application development experience.

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills

Accountability, Accountability, , Application Development, ASP.NET, Business, Business Services, Business Software, C#.NET, Cobol Mainframe, Collaboration, Computer Science, Conducting Standups, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, C Sharp (Programming Language), Design, Development Experience, Dev Ops, Erp Software, IDMS, Java, JSON, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) {+ 9 more}

Compensation

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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