Lead Software Engineer [T500-28823]

About FM:

FM is a 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, they deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive.

FM India located in Bengaluru is a strategic location for driving FM’s global operational efficiency that allows them to leverage the country’s talented workforce and advance their capabilities to serve their clients better.

We are excited to announce an opening for Lead Software Engineer IND at FM India. Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.

Skills Required:

• C# or Python, CI/CD Pipelines, CI/CD, Azure, Kubernetes, DevSecOps.

Experience Range:

• 5 - 7 years

Role Title: Lead Software Engineer Position Summary:

Participates as a senior team member in the design, development, and maintenance of multi-tiered business applications. Individuals holding this position are typically expected to be mentors from technical and delivery perspectives as well as work independently as a member of a team. Incumbents have a thorough understanding of available technology landscape, tools, and existing designs. This individual also participates fully in all team practices and standards. This role interfaces with IT colleagues and other stakeholders to evaluate defined complex business requirements and processes, assesses available technologies, determines infrastructure, and recommends solution options. Incumbents play a significant role in building application solutions which may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools. Demonstrates personal accountability and actively engages the team in demonstrating accountability.

Supports quality efforts within the team.

Job Responsibilities:

Analysis & Design:

• Consideration the Enterprise Architecture including authoritative sources of data, data & systems integration, and interrelationships across multiple subject areas (including transformation rules). Participates and leads design reviews. Contributes to the product backlogs. Assists in scheduling backlog items in the optimal execution order and ensures that the backlog is comprehensive. Advocates adoption of Enterprise initiatives. Helps develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT departments as appropriate to ensure successful implementation and support efforts.
• Analyses impact of requirements and works with Solution Architects on software solutions. Must consider usability, extensibility, efficiency, and performance during all phases of development. Applies design patterns to build secure, maintainable, testable, and evolvable software to ensure coherence across applications. Participates in designing software solutions and prepares technical documentation taking into.

Development:

• Estimation: Develops & facilitates technical estimates and timeframes without having complete information and provides confidence level in estimate. Mentors others in good estimation techniques .
• Coding: Mentors developers in the design and construction of complex business applications and prepares technical specifications to develop software solutions. Leads by example adoption of FM Global best practices, architectural principles, and security standards. Leads the evolution and improvement of these standards and practices. Develops software to transform and migrate data across environments. Actively participates in peer code reviews and is responsible for code quality.
• Test Automation: Responsible for writing pre-deployment automated tests for any delivered code. Participates in testing and debugging of overall system as required. Reviews automated test code to ensure appropriate test coverage. Demonstrates ability to setup and monitor automated tests in the CICD pipeline. Makes decisions regarding where to focus and improve the efficiency, coverage, and stability of automated tests. Participates in coding and maintenance of post deployment test automation frameworks.
• Support: Supports and plans effort to implement application in production and support post-production. Ensures development work includes detailed, high-quality documentation at appropriate level to allow for maintenance and support. Plans and executes reduction of technical debt and mit…