Sr. Software Engineer (Dotnet + C#+ Oracle/PLSQL + Azure +Rest APIs,+SOAP, + Okta Authentication + ARM + BICEP + YAML + Azure DevOps + GitHub)

Sr. Software Engineer, Assurant-GCC, India

The Sr. Software Engineer is a position requiring working with our international clients, business partners, architects, engineers, management and other IT groups to understand, design and engineer technical solutions for the desired capabilities. 

Collaboration, communication, and problem solving are key skills required.  The Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for understanding, and contributing to detailed technical design for features of a given project for the application. The Sr. Software Engineer may be required to technically lead some aspects of the project.

• Participates and contributes on design and build phases of the project
• Communicates frequently with lead engineer and management on project status, issues or news
• Follows the methodology standards and development process standards set by the Architects
• Learns new technologies for the project as needed
• Participate on design reviews
• Contributes to software reviews for consistency with best practices, standards and architecture guideline including code review
• Participates in finding solutions to problems, document procedures, mentors junior staff on problem resolution approach
• Collaborates and work with the Lead Engineer and Architects to design the appropriate solution for the project using the Architect guidelines.
• Participates on performing technical evaluations of vendor packages
• Collaborates with Application & Database Architecture and Lead in the selection and use of new, unexplored technology and design of projects
• Ensures final build adheres to approved design and meeting user requirements and expectations
• Analyzes conditions and strategies that effectively minimize implementation risk and/or improve system reliability and performance
• Participates in the integrations of components and systems
• Participates on team scrum meetings and with peers, and users
• Demonstrates potential for leadership, including sharing technical guidance, training and mentoring to others in areas of acquired expertise
• Works and meets with the team very frequently to discuss issues, progress, questions, open items, etc.
• Participates on interview of new candidates for the projects
• Other projects and assignments may result and be assigned to accommodate the changing needs of the department and the company. 

Education

• Completion of BS degree in MIS, CS, Technical Certification, etc. and/or 5 - 10 years of experience. MS preferred
• 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
• String knowledge on Agile and Scrum practices
• Broad knowledge of web applications and infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems
• Experience with Micro services 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
   

Previous Experience

• Experience administrating geographically dispersed systems. 
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in technology services related work.
• Minimum of 4 years of related hardware/software and system technologies.
• Multi-lingual is a plus

Technology

• Broad knowledge and experience in the use of expertise in distributed technologies including but not limited to Visual Studio, Dot Net, Visual Basic .NET, C#.NET .NET Framework 3.5 & higher, AJAX and Extensible Markup Language (XML & XMLT); IIS 7.0 and higher.
• Hands on experience with Rest APIs, SOAP, Okta Authentication, ARM, BICEP, YAML, Azure DevOps, GitHub 
• Others technology required Code Smith code generator, Web Services, WSS 3.0, WSE, & WCF, CSS, HTML, DHTML; JavaScript, SonarQube, Service Fabric, Service bus and others Azure technology
• Source control tool – ADO
• Reporting tool – SSRS and SharePoint
• Database technology SQL server 2020 + and PL/SQL and Stored procedures
• Nice to have - GenAI, LLM, RAG, MCP, GitHub CoPilot