Web Engineer-Onsite - White Plains, NY

Western & Southern Financial Group•White Plains, NY

1h•$115,000 - $135,000•Onsite

About The Position

This is an onsite Web Engineer role at Gerber Life Insurance focused on accelerating marketing, sales, and servicing outcomes by delivering web changes. The role is an individual contributor who collaborates with a team of 5–7 engineers on rapid, agile development, while also taking on leadership responsibilities as needed. It supports direct-to-consumer and agency e-commerce, insurance application processing, legacy application modernization, and online policyholder self-service. The position owns execution of roadmaps for digital sales and servicing capabilities, including systems that capture approximately 1.5 million leads and receive approximately 750,000 insurance applications annually, and systems supporting 300 internal contact center agents and approximately 2.5 million policyholders. The role is accountable for sustaining and accelerating team delivery by adapting people, processes, and technology within departmental and project budgets. It also contributes to organizational design, recruiting, hiring, performance management, coaching, training plans, work assignment, work estimation, and staffing. The employee must follow applicable designs, policies, procedures, data-security requirements, and regulatory-compliance standards, and perform other duties as assigned. The role works in an office setting, primarily at a desk using a computer or other standard office equipment, and in meetings. Extended hours may be required during peak workloads or special projects and events. Travel is not required.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science; a lower degree level may be acceptable with other technical training, relevant certifications, or extensive experience demonstrating the required abilities and performance.
Typically at least 5 years of agile web engineering change-management experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership setting with executive-level reporting experience.
Typically 3 years of custom direct-to-consumer and agency end-to-end life-insurance software change-management experience and large-scale public-facing direct-to-consumer e-commerce web engineering experience.
Typically 3 years of experience working with a team of web engineers using agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum, LeSS, Lean, XP, Kanban, FDD, and BDD.
Experience with API and UI test automation for quality control and supporting tools such as Cucumber and JIRA.
Ability to simplify large-scale system-change needs to minimize total cost of ownership and overhead.
Agile mindset and strong interest in innovation, agile delivery methods, and continuous integration.
Ability to work autonomously as a team player, lead effectively, and build working relationships at all organizational levels.
Ability to communicate verbally and exchange accurate information with customers and associates.
Visual acuity to read and interpret correspondence, procedures, reports, and forms, perform visual inspections, and use measurement devices as described in the posting.
Ability to prepare written correspondence, reports, and forms in prescribed formats and in accordance with writing conventions.
Ability to apply logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to perform substantial continuous wrist, hand, and finger movement for computer work.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with 5–7 engineers as an individual contributor to deliver rapid agile web development that advances digital sales and servicing capabilities.
Own execution of the roadmap for direct-to-consumer and agency e-commerce straight-through processing.
Execute modernization and transformation roadmaps for legacy applications supporting contact center agents and policyholder self-service.
Promote an agile and analytical mindset and the ADSD “can-do” spirit among employees and contractors.
Align organizational design with changes in the technical landscape and selectively recruit and hire engineers.
Lead team members when possible and manage product and sprint backlogs as needed to deliver web changes.
Sustain and accelerate team delivery velocity by adapting people, processes, and technology to maximize value within departmental and project budgets.
Hire, evaluate performance, coach, develop training plans for, and assign work to direct and indirect reports.
Estimate new work and provide employees and external contractors to meet software-change demand.
Meet new work demand within funding based on work estimates.
Lead teams using people, process, and technology advantages across the company.
Follow designs, policies, procedures, and standards for data security and regulatory compliance.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.