Software Engineer Tech Lead

Hybrid Work Model- Van Wert or Dublin, OH

Technology plays a crucial role in our ability to deliver best-in-class insurance products. We are currently seeking a Tech Lead to join our Core Policy & Underwriting team. This mission-critical system offers complex technical challenges and the opportunity to help us drive modernization while simultaneously delivering competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

You will be responsible for overseeing design, scoping, implementation, and working closely with the development teams to add features and resolve bugs. You will be expected to help choose design patterns, coach younger engineers on technology choices, conduct peer reviews, and provide feedback to engineering managers on system quality.

How You Will Make an Impact

Oversees the software development projects across multiple teams

Executes organization-wide architectures and methodologies for software applications design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the business unit.

Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.

Provides feedback to Engineering Managers on how the software delivery process is.

Works with the Product Manager to identify tech-debt, or process-debt items that need to be addressed to improve system-health or engineering throughput.

Writes some code, arch documents, and contributes to policy standards and owns their individual contributions to software applications development efforts; meets team deliverables by collaborating with engineering, product managers, and other departments.

Is able to understand when to apply different design patterns and techniques to make sure that code is readable, testable, and able to be changed without incurring significant tech-debt.

Makes good decisions on which technologies and techniques to deploy so that work can be delivered on time and with minimal defects.

Creates feedback loops that make the testing output visible for engineers to make decisions against.

Participates in inter-team workflow design conversations. Can help articulate needs of APIs and data-flows between teams and systems across domain boundaries.

Does operate in an architect capacity to design services and systems using well accepted design patterns that allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Anticipates future use cases and makes design decisions that balance the cost of future changes vs speed to deliver now.

Fosters a culture where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively with inquisitiveness, and use contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations. Is open to changing their perspective and plans based on others' input.

Fosters a culture of having conversations based on organizational strategy and principles to create alignment. Strongly oriented towards goals and ensures their team is continuously working towards their goals.

Has a thorough understanding of teams' strategies and how they map to their team and interaction points.

Should propose architectural decisions via RFCs, and is able to document architecture through modeling diagrams like state diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.

Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software applications design organization

Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding software applications design status, project progress, and issue resolution What You Will Bring

Master's degree in Computer Science and 4 years of related experience

Or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 6 years related experience

Or 8 years related experience

Mainframe Technologies: Strong experience in design and development of z/OS applications using DB2 databases.

Distributed Technologies: Familiarity with design and development of .NET applications using SQL databases.

Modernization: Experience with modernizing systems while appropriately mitigating risks.

Design, Execution, and Control:

Experience with REST APIs and service oriented architecture patterns.

You understand how to design databases to meet the application requirements, understand tradeoffs with database normalization levels, and are able to create and troubleshoot queries and stored procedures.

Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation) and project management skills, including work estimation, prioritization, planning, tracking, and retrospectives

Continual Improvement:

You have the ability to assist teams to iron out processes which will expedite software delivery.

You treat engineering as a craft and enjoy coaching others. Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Central that all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, job classification and assignment, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment and all other terms and conditions of employment shall be maintained in a manner which will not discriminate against any person because of race, color, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, marital status, military status, or disability. The applicant should respond to questions on this application in a way that will not divulge such information. #LI-Hybrid #LI-AS1

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Job Family IT-Software Engineering