Company Description
Arch Global Services offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package. Additionally, Arch is committed to helping its associates create what’s next by providing access to a variety of programs supporting your professional development and a culture that encourages innovation, collaboration and professional growth. We seek talent that thinks innovatively, values collaboration and will go the extra mile to serve our customers and develop our company. We also have a little fun along the way, check out our Holiday Party.
Job Description
The Senior Software Engineer develops, implements, and maintains software solutions that enable business operations to realize company goals & objectives. The incumbent performs analysis, design, coding, debugging, testing, and support of software applications. May be assigned to develop new applications/systems, enhance/upgrade existing systems or provide production support. He/she works independently on moderately complex projects, receiving only general direction. May provide assistance and direction to less experienced peers.
Job Responsibilities
- Works with the Agile Program Manager (APM), Digital Product Manager (DPM), and Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications and translate them into engineering artifacts, which typically include design specifications, source code, test scripts and test results.
- Coordinates with software architects and Software engineer IVs to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with Enterprise Architecture principles and software development best practices.
- As part of Agile teams, completes software development work which includes application design, coding, code review and testing. Keeps Agile team and APM apprised of project status.
- Offers suggestions to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives.
- Manages engineering risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues, and devising methods to mitigating them.
- Liaises with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
- Supports business units in the resolution of in-depth user questions and issues following production support process and SLA’s.
- Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and software engineering standards, practices and tools.
- Provides input to APM/DPM in creation of Product Roadmap, High Level Estimates
- Collaborates with IT management to define and develop documentation & engineering artifact standards, guidelines, processes, and templates.
Qualifications
Required Skills/Experience
- Development Experience with Java or .Net C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Experienced in scalable, high-availability back-end technologies Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL
- Experience with non-relational database technologies preferred such as Memcached, MongoDB, Redis
- Strong JavaScript back end development experience with common frameworks Angular, Rxjs, Node, etc...
- Front end development experience including ReactJS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Accessibility and Responsive Layouts UI/UX development experience.
- Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data
- Strong understanding of server-side software, scalability, performance, and reliability Skills
- Strong understanding of the OSI model, Networking, OS Layer and Services
- Understanding of continuous delivery tools like Chef, Puppet, Salt
- Understanding of continuous integration and deployment tools like Octopus deploy, Jenkins
- Proficient in: Python, SQL
- Some experience with Java, .Net C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5 & CSS, Windows, IIS, Linux, Tomcat, JBoss, Visio, TSQL, SSIS, PL/SQL, shell scripting
- Excellent communication skills:
Desired Skills/Experience
- Advanced knowledge of the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized software engineering best practices, methods & techniques.
- Extensive experience in developing software applications on the assigned technology platform.
- Extensive knowledge on source code change management and related tools.
- Knowledge and experience using agile software development principles, process, and tools.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, and written and oral communication skills.
- Strong customer service skills in order to provide end user/business owner systems support.
- Knowledge of production support processes such as incident and problem management techniques
Additional Information
- Required knowledge and skills would typically be acquired through a bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or related field plus 5 to 8 years of related experience.
