Senior Software Engineer, Assurant-GCC, India

The Sr. Software Engineer is a position requiring working with our international clients, business partners, architects, engineers, management and other IT groups to understand, design and engineer technical solutions for the desired capabilities. 

Collaboration, communication, and problem solving are key skills required.  The Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for understanding and contributing to detailed technical design for features of a given project for the application. The Sr. Software Engineer may be required to technically lead some aspects of the project.

Participates and contributes on design and build phases of the projectCommunicates frequently with lead engineer and management on project status, issues or newsFollows the methodology standards and development process standards set by the ArchitectsLearns new technologies for the project as neededParticipate on design reviewsContributes to software reviews for consistency with best practices, standards and architecture guideline including code reviewParticipates in finding solutions to problems, document procedures, mentors junior staff on problem resolution approachCollaborates and work with the Lead Engineer and Architects to design the appropriate solution for the project using the Architect guidelines.Participates on performing technical evaluations of vendor packagesCollaborates with Application & Database Architecture and Lead in the selection and use of new, unexplored technology and design of projectsEnsures final build adheres to approved design and meeting user requirements and expectationsAnalyzes conditions and strategies that effectively minimize implementation risk and/or improve system reliability and performanceParticipates in the integrations of components and systemsParticipates on team scrum meetings and with peers, and usersDemonstrates potential for leadership, including sharing technical guidance, training and mentoring to others in areas of acquired expertiseWorks and meets with the team very frequently to discuss issues, progress, questions, open items, etc.Participates on interview of new candidates for the projectsOther projects and assignments may result and be assigned to accommodate the changing needs of the department and the company. 

Education

Completion of BS degree in MIS, CS, Technical Certification, etc. and/or 5 - 10 years of experience. MS preferredApplication-specific certifications generally considered a plus in the applications areas of focused for the technical lead.  If certifications are not in place initially it is expected the lead will pursue and obtain these.Technical and non-technical Knowledge and SkillsExcellent written communication skillsString knowledge on Agile and Scrum practicesBroad knowledge of web applications and infrastructureStrong knowledge of distributed systemsExperience with Micro services design and developmentExperience with cloud application design patternsExperience in application architecture, design, and development a plusExperience in influencing others, managing conflict and interacting well with individuals throughout the organizational hierarchy

 

Previous Experience

Experience administrating geographically dispersed systems. Minimum of 7 years of experience in technology services related work.Minimum of 4 years of related hardware/software and system technologies.Multi-lingual is a plus

Technology

Broad knowledge and experience in the use of expertise in distributed technologies including but not limited to Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic .NET, C#.NET .NET Framework 3.5 & higher, AJAX and Extensible Markup Language (XML & XMLT); IIS 7.0 and higher.Hands on experience with Rest APIs, SOAP, Okta Authentication, ARM, BICEP, YAML, Azure DevOps, GitHub Others technology required Code Smith code generator, Web Services, WSS 3.0, WSE, & WCF, CSS, HTML, DHTML; JavaScript, SonarQube, Service Fabric, Service bus and others Azure technologySource control tool – ADOReporting tool – SSRS and SharePointDatabase technology SQL server 2020 + and PL/SQL and Stored proceduresNice to have - GenAI, LLM, RAG, MCP, GitHub CoPilot