About Us
At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.
Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.
Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.
Overview
Selective's Commercial Lines IT Team is seeking an Application Specialist who is a creative and forward-looking software engineer focused on solution design, development, and implementation. An ideal candidate is proficient in current technologies (.NET 6), design patterns, best practices and has prior experience modernizing applications of medium to large scale. As a hands-on Application Specialist, you will be both a technical expert and a leader. In addition to producing high quality code and solution design you will also have the opportunity to provide technical guidance to other developers and identifying inefficiencies and process improvements that will boost productivity for the entire team.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate robust technical knowledge, working with architecture, security, and our team to develop and deploy solutions that align with our application development framework & standards.
- Viewed as a technical expert within the technologies used to support their respective business application(s) being involved from design taking ownership including consulting development staff in all phases of the development and deployment process.
- Reviews specs, design and code and recommends changes including continuous improvements to development team members to align with approved, application development framework.
- Maintains a sound understanding of the business processes that those applications support.
- Performs analysis, systems design, coding and/or integrates purchased solutions. Documents, tests, implements, and provides on-going support for applications.
- Provides comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of the project development life cycle. May involve project manager or other leadership role crossing IT systems, applications, and/or infrastructure teams.
- Communicates effectively to different audiences, including business stakeholders, senior leadership, and developers.
- Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for the systems design. Participates in setting technical direction in conjunction with the architecture, data base, and infrastructure groups.
- Provides highly technical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies which assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives.
- The ability to work with vendor and vendor products.
- Migrates legacy, dated application technologies to current technologies.
- Continually looks for opportunities to improve developer productivity and the overall change management process.
- Recommends, and provides guidance, in the areas of application performance and tuning.
- Works closely with customers to identify and specify complex requirements and processes for diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, tools, etc
Qualifications
Knowledge and Requirements
- College degree in Computer Science, Management Information Science, or related field preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in software application development and maintenance required with web development experience which includes C#, VB .NET, SQLServer, Azure, Agile methodologies required.
Total Rewards
Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and paid time off plans. Additional details about our total rewards package will be provided during the recruiting process.
The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs.
Pay Range
USD $106,000.00 - USD $146,000.00 /Yr.
Additional Information
Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.
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