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Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$145,200.00 - $239,600.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our organization as we grow and transform our Technology landscape. Individual will complete expert software end to end engineering tasks including designing, developing, analyzing, configuring, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, documenting, health monitoring/alerting, and implementing based on user or system specifications for impactful and high-visibility initiatives. Individual will also plan and execute at a strategic level, lead the design, development and implementation of significantly complex, unscoped problems that extend beyond the confines of a team and establish software engineering best practices and standards.

What Will You Do?

Bond and Specialty Insurance is seeking a software engineering lead in test (SDET) who would provide strategic thinking and solutions in support of our Strategic platform end to end testing and quality into the development process in a SAFe / Agile environment, by applying knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions within the context of optimizing our software delivery process.

Key activities will include

• Implementing the strategy for stability and performance of solutions (including - project level design, debug and performance analysis) at the applications and technology domains level.
• Coordinating installation of test automation architecture, tools and databases.
• Designing functional and non-functional test automation strategy and processes.
• Builds, maintains, and utilizes partnerships across the enterprise ensuring the best use of resources.
• As COE lead, adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance
• Collaborating with other COE functions to provide optimal solutions
• Set technical direction and effectively influences across multiple teams to improve the overall quality of engineering practices and skill sets.
• Align work with business and engineering priorities to realize meaningful impact.
• Build, maintain, and utilize partnerships ensuring the best use of overall resources.
• Provide technical leadership, foster a team environment, and provide mentorship and feedback to technical resources.
• Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions within the context of assigned efforts.
• Ensure team's work complies with Travelers standards, processes, and protocols.
• Provide consistent performance feedback and coaching to staff.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Seven years of programming/development/testing experience plus two years prior technical leadership experience preferred.
• Demonstrates hands on experience with technologies, applications, systems, frameworks, and/or languages and has the ability to influence and/or set technical direction or defect resolution
• Able to evaluate and leverage pre-existing services and frameworks.
• Leverages enterprise and industry best practices and standards..
• Builds, leverages, and maintains effective alliances across technical and business community.
• Demonstrates sound analytical and diagnostic skills dealing with issues that are loosely defined and where information is available but must be further manipulated. 
• Openly and directly confronts conflict until resolved.  Knows how to execute to get things done.  Optimizes the use of all available resources
• Keeps apprised of industry trends and applies this knowledge to solutions.
• Able to set and assign technical goals and priorities for self and team members. Exhibits team leadership. Able to set team's technical direction.  Able to define training plans for team.
• Delivery - Advanced delivery skills including the ability to examine and assess the effectiveness of software design strategies and methodologies across an organization, the ability to devise, apply, and share ways to ensure the quality, production readiness, and continued health of complex computer systems, the ability to incorporate awareness and understanding of work happening outside of the team, and the ability to develop widely used technical metrics that enable engineers to better understand and deliver their work.

• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to leverage expertise to improve company level capabilities within domain, consult on business priorities and optimize value by identifying business aligned solutions and thoughtfully and practically introduce concepts and technologies from the industry.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who creates architecture that is particularly robust against single points of failure, both in terms of systems and people and looks ahead 6-12 months to identify areas of need and turns this into action.
• Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document effectively so that systems/architectures can be maintained or built upon, collaborate across disparate groups, helping to identify common goals and gain consensus, adapt language to meet the needs of various levels of technical and non-technical audiences and model and assist others in the practice of mindful communication, active listening, and messaging.
• Leadership - Advanced leadership skills including the ability to leverage internal networks across engineering and engage with other leaders to solve problems and develop strong credibility throughout the company as well as choose the most critical engineering challenges and work to improve the entire engineering organization by teaching others and sharing knowledge while creating opportunities for others to showcase and develop skills.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience.
• Five years of programming/development experience.
• One year of experience of technical leadership.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you're eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results. 

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.