Lead Application Development Engineer (Hybrid)

As a Lead Application Development Engineer with American Family Insurance you will collaborate with others in the division to provide and maintain applications to meet business needs. Responsible for design and development for complex business solutions, providing technical guidance for specific applications.

You will support the Digital Sales Team.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Engineering - Integration Engineering Department.

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Depending on the candidate pool, this position may be filled at a lower level to maintain alignment with experience and qualifications., *Provide expertise during the initial phases of the project including estimating resources, skill requirements, time requirements, identifying technologies, participating in proof of concepts.

*Analyze high-level system specifications, our requirements and use cases.

*Convert information into the appropriate level specifications and system design plan for the development team.

*Understand and identify system dependencies.

*Consult with others to validate complex design decisions. Provide advanced coding expertise to mitigate high risk features or technical challenges.

*Provide appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as needed by organization standards.

*Define, conduct, mentor others, and participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration). Prepare and lead development walkthroughs.

*Collaborate with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements.

*Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service

*Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems.

*Demonstrated experience communicating technical information. *Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers.

*Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language.

*Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions.

*Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and leadership to less experienced staff.

*Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies.

*Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools.

*Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).

*Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives.

*Solid Knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• REACT, Java and Node experience.

In this hybrid role you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month out of the Madison, WI or Boston, MA offices.

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.