Sr Software Engineer

Berkley•Urbandale, IA

About The Position

Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is the dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. With key locations in Urbandale, IA and Wilmington, DE, BTS provides innovative and customer-focused IT solutions to the majority of WRBC’s 60+ operating units across the globe. BTS’s wide reach ensures that ideas and opinions are considered at every level of the organization to guarantee we find the best solutions possible. Driven by a commitment to collaboration, BTS acts as consultants to our customers and Operating Units by providing comprehensive solutions that not only address the challenge at hand, but proactively plan for the “ What’s Next ” in our industry and beyond. With a culture centered on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, BTS stands as a community of technology leaders with eyes toward the future -- leaders who truly care about growing not only their team members, but themselves , and take pride in their employees who shine. BTS offers endless ways to get involved and have the chance to grow your career into a wide range of roles you'd never known existed. Come join us as we push forward into the future of industry leading technological solutions. Berkley Technology Services: Right Team, Right Technology, Simple and Secure. The Sr. Software Engineer will be providing overall requirements gathering, design, development and support of one or more company applications for the various subsidiaries of the corporation. Demonstrates a robust understanding of all the business processes and system interfaces of a system. Can design significant new system functionality with a consideration of performance, stability, and supportability. Reviews and provides feedback on business requirements to fully leverage technology to improve business functions. Defines standards and design patterns / paradigms for system development within a team. Demonstrates problem solving skills that span the application, middleware, and infrastructure levels. Can lead technical efforts that involve multiple engineers. Acts as a mentor to other engineers promoting their development. Provides guidance on BTS development standards and quality expectations to employees entering the job family. Demonstrates a robust understanding of all functional and technical aspects of a system. Can produce significant new system functionality or defect resolution with minimal direction. Creates design specifications that demonstrate an understanding of most interfacing systems and supported business processes. (can understanding business processes go to the developer/analyst) Routinely proposes improvements to a system to improve supportability or usability. Can perform adequate peer review on any changes in the system. Can be consulted to provide recommendations to solve business issues based on experience and knowledge of current technology. Work as a collaborative part of a development team, which includes interactions with business analysts, quality assurance and end user resources Provides high quality support for our customers May provide rotating on-call support of production systems. Provide end user mentoring and training in 1-1 and small group settings. Partner with the various subsidiaries to create a vision for future advancement of our applications. Travel for this position is approximately 5-10%.

Requirements

10+ yrs. of software development experience
5 to 10 years of development experience in Microsoft technologies
Java stack
5 to 10 years of development experience with web-based technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular and web services
5 to 10years of relational database experience with MS SQL Server
Ability to thrive and produce results with little or no supervision in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills with ability to interact seamlessly at all levels with both technical and business stakeholders
Strong customer service focus and sense of urgency
Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and systems
Superior problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to function as a valuable team member inside a virtual collaboration environment
Must have demonstrated the capability of meeting the key accountabilities, or have the ability to learn/perform them
Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in related field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Agile/Scrum team exposure and experience
P&C Insurance Industry knowledge
Knowledge of domain driven development and/or CQRS architecture
Working knowledge of ASP.NET Web Forms
Working knowledge of Entity Framework
Experience with Atlassian tools
Working knowledge of Angular
Behavioral Core Competencies
Critical Thinking
Customer Service Oriented
Technically Astute
Business Knowledge
Influential
Conceptual Thinking
Personal Ownership

Responsibilities

Providing overall requirements gathering, design, development and support of one or more company applications for the various subsidiaries of the corporation.
Demonstrates a robust understanding of all the business processes and system interfaces of a system.
Can design significant new system functionality with a consideration of performance, stability, and supportability.
Reviews and provides feedback on business requirements to fully leverage technology to improve business functions.
Defines standards and design patterns / paradigms for system development within a team.
Demonstrates problem solving skills that span the application, middleware, and infrastructure levels.
Can lead technical efforts that involve multiple engineers.
Acts as a mentor to other engineers promoting their development.
Provides guidance on BTS development standards and quality expectations to employees entering the job family.
Demonstrates a robust understanding of all functional and technical aspects of a system.
Can produce significant new system functionality or defect resolution with minimal direction.
Creates design specifications that demonstrate an understanding of most interfacing systems and supported business processes.
Routinely proposes improvements to a system to improve supportability or usability.
Can perform adequate peer review on any changes in the system.
Can be consulted to provide recommendations to solve business issues based on experience and knowledge of current technology.
Work as a collaborative part of a development team, which includes interactions with business analysts, quality assurance and end user resources
Provides high quality support for our customers
May provide rotating on-call support of production systems.
Provide end user mentoring and training in 1-1 and small group settings.
Partner with the various subsidiaries to create a vision for future advancement of our applications.