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As a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500, Assurant's businesses offer a variety of products and services that provide opportunity and peace of mind -- but it is our people that set us apart. By listening to what our clients want and truly understanding what they need, Assurant employees develop innovative, customized solutions to help our customers meet their goals and protect them from unforeseen risks.

By working at Assurant, you will be part of a thriving organization that offers a wealth of opportunities for career growth. We have established a tradition of encouraging employees to focus on their own professional development. Our fundamental belief is that when people can thrive and grow, we all benefit – the person, the business and our customers. If you are interested in discovering all the possibilities Assurant has to offer, then we can bring out the best in you.

Description

The Senior Developer is a position requiring working with our international clients, business partners, architects, developers, management and other IT groups to understand and design technical solutions for the desired capabilities. 

Collaboration, communication, and problem solving are key skills required.  This developer is ultimately responsible for a complete detailed technical design for a given project for the application.      

Technical Role and Responsibility:

• Drives the development of design and build phases of the project
• Communicates frequently with management on project status, issues or news
• Technically leads the projects in the development process, as required
• Promotes and assures team follows the methodology standards and development process standards set by the Architects
• Participating in design reviews
• Leads software reviews for consistency with best practices, standards and architecture guideline including code review
• Proactively finds solutions to problems, document procedures, and drives the problem resolution approach
• Collaborates and work with the Architects and others leads to design the appropriate solution for the project using the Architect guidelines.
• Collaborate with Application & Database Architecture in the selection of the best design of projects
• Ensure design meets user requirements and expectations
• Analyzes conditions and strategies that effectively minimize implementation risk and/or improve system reliability and performance
• Ensure and facilitate the integration of components and systems
• Participating in team meetings with peers, staff and users
• Demonstrates drive and leadership on projects and assignments
• Works and meets with the team very frequently to discuss issues, progress, questions, open items, etc.
• Deliver all project commitments with quality and on schedule

Qualifications

Education

• Completion of Bachelor’s degree in MIS, CS, Technical Certification, etc. and/or 5 - 10 years of experience.
  • Application-specific certifications generally considered a plus in the applications areas of focused for the technical lead.  If certifications are not in place initially it is expected the lead will pursue and obtain these.

• Technical and non-technical Knowledge and Skills
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Broad knowledge of web applications and infrastructure
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems
  • Experience with Microservices design and development
  • Experience with cloud application design patterns
  • Experience in application architecture, design, and development a plus
  • Experience in influencing others, managing conflict and interacting well with individuals throughout the organizational hierarchy
  • Strong communication and leadership in cross-functional teams.
• Previous Experience
  • Experience administrating geographically dispersed systems. 
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in technology services related work.
  • Minimum of 4 years of related hardware/software and system technologies.
  • Hands-on Scrum experience: story slicing, estimation (story points), prioritization, and delivering working software each Sprint.
  • Fluent in English is required

Technology requirements

Broad knowledge and experience in the use of expertise in distributed technologies including:

• Expert in C#/.NET 6+, ASP.NET Core, LINQ, async/await, RESTful design, strong debugging and performance profiling.
• 7+ years in software engineering; 3+ years building on Azure using PaaS services (App Service/Functions), and messaging (Service Bus).
• Advanced Oracle (SQL/PL/SQL, indexing, query plans, performance tuning).
• .NET DRY / SOLID Principles
• Hands-on APIM: policy authoring (rate-limit/quota, transform, validate-jwt, CORS), API lifecycle (versioning, revisions), products/subscriptions, developer portal, private networking/VNet, and integration with Front Door/WAF.
• Event-driven architectures (Service Bus/Event Grid)
• Hands-on CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub), IaC (Bicep/Terraform/ARM)
• Instrument services with App Insights/Log Analytics; improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Others including CodeSmith code generator, Web Services, WSS 3.0, WSE, & WCF, CSS, HTML, DHTML; Javascript
• test-driven development (TDD)
• Service Fabric Microservices 
• Reporting tool – SSRS and SharePoint
• SQL server 2014 + is a plus

Travel required:

10% Travel required to remote sites.

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Company Overview
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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