Application Development Team Lead (Hybrid)

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

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.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. 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. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Overview:

Selective Insurance is seeking a highly motivated Application Development Team Lead to join us in Commercial Lines organization. An ideal candidate will leverage their technical proficiency and leadership competencies to drive the delivery of key objectives. From Cloud to DevOps to Modernization to Strategic Business initiatives you will have the opportunity to lead multiple work streams to deliver innovative solutions. As a Software Engineering Team Lead you will be responsible for ensuring both on-time successful delivery, and the technical and architectural quality of the solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product, Business and IT organizations.
• Lead high performing team(s) in iteratively delivering key business value.
• Ensure deliverables are on-time and of high quality.
• Resolve and/or escalate technical and project delivery issues.
• Drive process improvements within the team and across the department to improve efficiency and quality.
• Assist in prioritizing new development projects, enhancement projects for existing systems, and system maintenance requests.
• Act as a key contributor in planning and estimation of projects.
• Ensure design, code, and test plan reviews are conducted as appropriate.
• Report program status, KPIs, OKRs to leadership.

Qualifications:

• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Proven history of owning and taking accountability for leading others to complete complex deliverables.
• 7+ years of experience leading and/or hands-on development of applications.
• Experience in full stack design and/or development (.NET, C#, Angular, API and SQL preferred)
• Knowledge of modern Agile frameworks and practices such as Scum, Kanban, DevOps, test driven development, and test automation, as well as the underlying principles.

Preferred Experience:

• SAFe agile work experience or similar agile process
• College degree in Computer Science or Management Information systems
• Property Casualty Insurance experience
• Experience of leading multi-million-dollar IT initiatives.

Salary range: $116,000 - $167,000. 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 the candidate's qualifications and experience.

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.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.

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