Solutions Engineer, Software - Liberty Mutual

The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

Do you have the skills—and drive—to join a tech team that’s working to digitally transform a trillion-dollar industry? From test-driving the latest technologies to creating intuitive consumer apps, Liberty Mutual is constantly innovating and creating industry-leading solutions that provide peace of mind for our customers worldwide. As a solutions engineer at Liberty Mutual, you’ll be responsible for guiding the development of system, technical and product standards based on business plans and long-term strategies, while working in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up—and the full backing and comprehensive benefits of a Fortune 100 company.

Functioning within the Safeco Products space, you’ll be responsible for leading the technical vision that enable development teams to create solutions that meet customer needs and align with technology guardrails and strategy.

We encourage you to apply and bring your expertise if you’re a:

• Strategic partner: You take the big picture view, whether you’re supervising architecture migrations or maintaining critical relationships with vendors and business partners
• Motivated mentor: Exercise your technical chops while coaching and collaborating with junior software engineers across multiple teams
• Systems-level engineer: Working hand-in-hand with your business partners, you’ll develop technical requirements and design robust and flexible product and system architectures
• Forward thinker: Leading by example, you’ll promote a culture of continuous improvement by finding solutions that increase efficiency, accelerate the adoption of new technologies and enhance profitability

 Responsibilities

As the Solutions Engineer you are responsible for leading the technical vision that enable development teams to create solutions that meet customer needs and align with technology guardrails & strategy

• Turn What into How: Work as a member of a scaled agile leadership team alongside Product leaders and System Architects to translate business strategies into technology solutions
• Build a Vision: Lead the vision and execution to transform foundational product platforms and underwriting capabilities into target technologies, guided by our North Star Architecture strategy
• Lead & Mentor: Work across multiple teams in an agile environment to support and mentor developers in delivering their solutions and developing themselves
• Be Hands-on: Roll up your sleeves as you dissect and prepare complex features or assist teams with challenging issues
• Safeguard & Evangelize Best Practices: Consults on major architectural designs to ensure consistency, security, maintainability, and flexibility with respect to overall system, technical and product architectures within a domain or portfolio
• Build a Great Culture: As part of a broader leadership team, foster a high performing culture based on trust, honesty, and transparency

Experience

• 10+ years of related software engineering experience
• A comprehensive understanding of agile environments
• Extensive knowledge of contemporary frameworks and emerging technologies
• Strong consultative skills, including the ability to understand and apply customer requirements, including drawing out unforeseen implications and making recommendations for design, the ability to define design reasoning, understanding potential impacts of design requirements
• A history of practicing DevOps and SecOps
• A strong background in business operations and strategies, including knowledge of global business, technology trends and the financial services industry
• Well versed in diverse technologies and technical architecture principles and concepts. Extensive knowledge in layered systems architectures solutions and designs and shared software concepts

Skills

• Solid negotiation, facilitation, consensus building and influencing capabilities
• Ability to identify patterns and problems across teams and deliver effective solutions
• Openness and adaptability to respond to fast-moving circumstances
• A design thinking and test-driven development mindset
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, and an aptitude for working in teams
• Experience developing or architecting cloud-hosted, applications using C#/.NET
• Strong background in code review
• High-level proficiency with client-side JavaScript frameworks, server-side frameworks, and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with event-based System of Engagement architectures and integration with API exposing microservices
• Deep understanding of layered solutions and designs
• Cognizance of security concerns, from access control and authentication to secured SDLC processes
• Understanding of DCI/MDM systems, data ingestion and cloud-scale data sets

Education

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience

Travel

10%

**This position may have in-office requirements depending on candidate location.**

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Liberty Mutual has proudly been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by Great Place to Work® US for the past several years. We were also selected as one of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT" on IDG's Insider Pro and Computerworld's 2020 list. For many years running, we have been named by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Women and one of America's Best Employers for New Graduates as well as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity. To learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion please visit: https://jobs.libertymutualgroup.com/diversity-inclusion

We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits

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