Principal Software Engineer

Company: Unum Insurance
Location: Portland
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

Job Posting End Date: March 28Our Fortune 500 company is driving a digital transformation and looking for forward-thinking innovators to disrupt how our industry thinks about and uses technology. As one of the world's leading employee benefits providers, we help millions of people gain affordable access to benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures.Are you an asker of questions, a solver of problems, and a challenger of the status quo? Our mission is to provide a differentiated customer experience and exceed the expectations people have of technology at any company - not just insurers.We are seeking individuals to join our team of talented IT professionals who share never-ending passion and an unwavering focus on our customer experience.Team members comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment thrive in our environment where we value an entrepreneurial spirit and those who challenge the status-quo.Unum is changing, and we're excited about what's next. Join us.General Summary:The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for the overall design of an application suite, and ensuring the delivery from the agile team meets agreed upon architecture standards. They lead the advancement of solutions within their business portfolio. They will be knowledgeable in third party/cloud solutions and lead successful integration of modern technologies. The Principal Software Engineer plays a critical role in leading software teams, mentoring software engineers of all levels and help grow future talent within the organization.This role will play a leading role in improving the interraction between the business and IT by identifying and developing strategic applications of IT. The role will be critical in the advancement of the architecture roadmap through innovative solutions.Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand the business needs and designs solutions to enable the desired capabilities.
• Provides technical leadership and direction across a BDH or Value-stream
• Collaborates with architects on the creation and application of technical roadmaps, standards, tooling and frameworks required to create a modern, high quality, rich application suite.
• Recognizes potential strategic application of IT, and initiates investigation and development of innovative methods of exploiting IT assets, to the benefit of organizations and the community. Plays a leading role in improving the interaction and understanding between the business and IT.
• Completes the design of an application and drives the advancement of the reference architecture.
• Advances architecture roadmap for business area(s) by recommending third party/cloud solutions and Prototyping initiatives
• Co-ordinates or participates in tool, technology and service selection, risk assessments and sunsetting in conjunction with technical and business stakeholders ensuring consistency with existing business needs and architectural sustainability.
• Ensures that solutions delivered have an excellent customer experience, are secure and scalable, comply with best practices and open standards.
• Look for ways to utilize modern technologies to solve business problems - including AI, Digital platforms, and automation.
• Actively looks for solutions that are buy over build and are cloud based.
• Stays abreast of external trends and new functionality to be released by third party/cloud solutions, identifying and socializing opportunities for expanded business applicability
• Ensures application solution design conforms to agreed upon quality attributes such as performance, fault tolerance, etc.
• Ensures product backlog has appropriate technical stories and participates in their prioritization
• Resolves architectural uncertainties through prioritisation, planning, and execution of architectural sprints and reprioritizes Technology Roadmap and portfolio backlogs based on outcomes
• Provides ongoing and appropriate mentorship for Software Engineers
• Plays an active role in creating and communicating new technical solutions to business partners
• Responsible for application quality from design and implementation to deploy and run.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of new and existing features for the existing portfolio of applications for a business area, and recommending areas where new investment is merited.
• Responsible for communication and collaboration with senior stakeholders
• May participate in the actual Design, coding, configuration, testings and maintenance of software deliverables using agreed upon standards and tools.
• Maintains depth of technical understanding of third party/cloud solutions and Unum's implementation of solutions.
• Evaluates technical impacts from and coordinates implementation of new product releases.
• Participates in sizing and estimation activities with the agile team
• May participates in code reviews and sprint retrospectives;
• Focuses on delivering business priority and value at all times
• Ensures agile teams are adopting best software development practices including manual and automated testing, continuous Integration techniques, automated deployments, etc
• Collaborates with business SMEs and Business Architects to confirm understanding of requirements and to help drive business value in solution designs.
• Collaborates with User Experience (UX) designers to ensure designs produced can be translated efficiently into working solutions for feature delivery
• Collaborates with the agile team to establish the definition of done for each of the stages of production within the team
• May serve in a Scrum Master role for an agile team
• Ensures an innovation culture in the team by continuous improvement of deliveries
• Monitor application behavior in product onto ensure that the application performance system stability are meeting business needs, and takes appropriate action.
• Ensures that the latest project progress is known to the agile team by ensuring Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are up to date and participating in daily standups outlining progress made, progress planned and detailing impediments
• Thinks with the mind of the end customer at all times, ensuring solutions seek to improve the customer experience and delight their customers.Job Specifications
  • Bachelors of Computer Science, with Master degree is preferred, or equivalent relevant experience
  • FINEOS experience is preferred
  • Passionate about the customer - motivating self and others to create innovative solutions that will excite and delight the customer.
  • 8+ years of successfully delivering software products in a complex, enterprise environment.
  • Demonstrates strong leadership skills.
  • Strong analytical abilities
  • Takes a logical, analytical approach to problem solving and pays close attention to detail
  • Expert in Agile development/methodologies, Test Automation and TDD, CI/CD, Devops
  • High focus on quality; holds self and others to high standards of delivery
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; experience leading groups of people through discussions, technical or otherwise. Successfully communicate to Senior ManagementOur company is built on helping individuals and families, and this starts with our employees. We want employees to maintain a positive balance, which is why we provide access to the benefits and resources they need to invest in themselves. From our onsite fitness facilities and generous paid time off to employee professional development programs, we are committed to helping employees live and work their best - both inside and outside the office.Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.$103,600.00-$202,100.00Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.Company:Unum

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