Principal Software Engineer

CRC Group • Charlotte, NC

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. o Member of engineering team supporting CRC Specialty, CRC’s brokerage business. o This is a hands-on development position, but also with technical leadership responsibility for onshore and offshore developers. No HR responsibilities. o Support internal facing web applications (REDY and Quick Quotes) that helps our producers better support and service our retail agency partners. o Focus is on design and development for both new and existing applications, including AI-based capabilities. o Applications are 100% cloud based, both IaaS and PaaS. o Applications are built on Microsoft stack, including Microsoft Azure and OpenAI.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems-related field, or equivalent education and related training
• 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
• 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
• Strong business and financial acumen and effective communication skills
• Ability to establish strong relationships within the technical community
• Ability to serve as a visionary concerning future technological capabilities and operational scenarios; ability to create new business models and technologies
• Ability to create, manage and drive change
• Ability to unify activities within the technology community, coordinating with other businesses and engineering organizations, as needed

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• Eligible full-time teammates enjoy access to medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and AD&D insurance; tax-advantaged savings accounts; and a 401(k) plan with company match.
• CRC Group also offers generous paid time off programs, including company holidays, vacation and sick days, new parent leave, and more.
• Eligible positions may also qualify for restricted stock units and/or a deferred compensation plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees