Principal Software Engineer

Regular Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America) Please review the following job description: Serve as top-level technical authority on leading edge, complex, state-of-the art technologies and/or techniques. This position is a senior leader of the organization who serves as leader, collaborator, innovator, role model, champion and subject matter expert.

oMember of engineering team supporting CRC Specialty, CRC’s brokerage business. oThis is a hands-on development position, but also with technical leadership responsibility for onshore and offshore developers. No HR responsibilities. oSupport internal facing web applications (REDY and Quick Quotes) that helps our producers better support and service our retail agency partners. oFocus is on design and development for both new and existing applications, including AI-based capabilities. oApplications are 100% cloud based, both IaaS and PaaS. oApplications are built on Microsoft stack, including Microsoft Azure and OpenAI., Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

1. Act as top-level subject matter expert on assigned technology stack.
2. Lead existing and emerging technology and development processes, ensuring those technologies and processes are aligned with the goals and strategies of the business strategy.
3. Develop/invent highly innovative, complex and critical solutions with assigned technologies that require extensive, in-depth knowledge of the assigned technology.
4. Identify and develop revolutionary business opportunities with significant impacts on financial results.
5. Build strong partnerships with all levels of management to drive improvement of the application portfolio that uses assigned technologies across Technology teams.
6. Identify and develop sound application architecture patterns, frameworks and standards for the assigned technology for use across Technology to drive application architecture consistency.
7. Identify and drive application architecture and business capability consolidation opportunities.
8. Meet with clients to understand their needs and offer consulting services to internal clients and DTS departments as requested/needed.

In an Agile environment: Acts as an Agile champion. Primarily responsible for delivering high quality working software and automating manual/reusable tasks. Leverages continuous engineering practices to deliver business value. Actively participates in refining user stories. Responsible for development and developing unit testing, and supporting integration and functional testing. Responsible for providing warranty support and providing knowledge transfer to production support. Develops code in accordance with the acceptance criteria established by the Product Owner.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems-related field, or equivalent education and related training
2. Minimum of five + years of experience in leading edge, complex, state-of-the art technologies and/or techniques with additional experience within software development; should have development experience in C#.NET, OpenAI, Cloud (Azure, AWS) and Python
3. Recognized in the industry for their experience and knowledge. May obtain the knowledge through more intense experience, such as working in a technology development company
4. Strong business and financial acumen and effective communication skills
5. Ability to establish strong relationships within the technical community
6. Ability to serve as a visionary concerning future technological capabilities and operational scenarios; ability to create new business models and technologies
7. Ability to create, manage and drive change
8. Ability to unify activities within the technology community, coordinating with other businesses and engineering organizations, as needed, * Fifteen years of industry recognized experience and leadership * Experienced working with IT leadership at all levels * Experienced working with onshore and offshore engineering teams * Affinity for working with agile methodologies and understands importance of process and documentation. * Adept at designing cloud-based solutions. * Willingness to wear multiple hats and believes in continuous learning * Commercial P&C insurance experience preferred * Commercial P&C insurance brokerage experience is a strong plus * Strong Azure experience highly preferred. * Open AI experience is a strong plus, including Python coding experience