Lead Systems Engineer

QBE Insurance Group • Sun Prairie, WI

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the development of application enhancements and new development efforts by providing technical expertise, partnering with key stakeholders and reviewing application requirements and use cases to ensure application system functionality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Nice To Haves

• 5 years of experience analyzing business requirements and creating technical requirements using UML
• Experience in application development
• Experience with service oriented architecture
• Advanced working knowledge of basic application development standard procedures, concepts and principles
• Familiarity with service definition, design and/or implementation using WSDL and/or SOAP; familiarity with development methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum/Agile)
• Applied knowledge of design, development and testing of complex systems with large data throughput
• Working knowledge of technical documentation
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle and relevant milestones
• Developed written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Lead a team and contribute to a team-oriented environment for software design, development and troubleshooting
• Conduct gap analysis of current state and desired future state
• Extrapolate from limited or complex data
• Effectively present information to influence organizational leaders and key stakeholders
• Creativity and alternative, open thinking to generate and support new or better ways of doing things
• Identify measures of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system
• Adapt efforts to rapidly changing conditions such as requirements, schedule and/or product issues
• Demonstrated interest in personal learning and enhancing knowledge
• Communicate information in a clear, well-organized and professional manner
• Identify opportunities for improvement

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of conceptual design for application enhancements by collaborating with other technical resources and ensuring conceptual design supports business objectives and high-level business requirements
• Lead, conduct and/or direct analysis into business problems for the purposes of defining technical solutions; translate business requirements into technical requirements to clearly specified project briefs and identify options for potential solutions and asses them for both technical and business suitability
• Prepare approximate estimates for development efforts associated with application enhancements; reviewing high-level requirements and use cases
• Review, approve and/or lead the development of technical design for application enhancements by facilitating a design review with stakeholders as needed to ensure application development meets architecture guidelines and standards
• Serve as a subject matter expert by providing consultation during creation of test cases and answering all business and technical inquiries
• Provide technical subject matter expertise for business and technical inquiries by responding to service desk escalations and developing resolutions to ensure quality level of service

Benefits

• Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education
• Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level