Enterprise Application Integrations 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 2023 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2023.

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.

Summary:

Selective is seeking an Enterprise Application Integration Lead Specialist who is well versed in Integration platforms like IBM App connect Enterprise (ACE) and other Cloud PaaS Integration services. As a part of our growing Center of Excellence (CoE) services you will be responsible to help application areas in integrations project requirements/design/arch, drive strategic initiatives aligned to integrations platforms, and help build/mature CoE services around the various Enterprise Application Integration Software (IBM ACE 12, Azure Api Management, Azure logic Apps or other cloud iPaaS services)

Responsibilities:

• Develop Enterprise standards, Enterprise governance frameworks, and system integration standards
• Develop and maintain the technology stack to include current and future integration platforms/ecosystem
• Provide expert advice to project teams on use of integration technology, system architecture including integration best practices
• Oversee critical steps within the Software Development Life Cycle components that impact enterprise-wide development / architecture standards
• Understand, establishes & enhances SDLC practices example DevOps, automation, improving altering and monitoring capabilities, unit testing
• Provide oversight in standards adherence through reviews of project work including detailed technical specifications and application code
• Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for the system design. Participates in setting technical direction with the architecture, security, and infrastructure groups.
• Provide highly technical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies which assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives
• Work with project teams in definition of requirements for integration strategies and work with Enterprise architecture and solution architecture group to enhance/improve existing Integration standards and guidance
• Manage/lead internal resources as well as augmented or externally sourced team members
• Assist with incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem resolution
• Communicate project and CoE Activity status to various levels of management
• Partner with leaders of other disciplines to ensure proposed solutions align with information, technology, infrastructure, business, and security architectures
• All other projects and duties as required or assigned

Qualifications:

• Ability to effectively work well with people in other departments and/or outside of the enterprise.
• Possesses excellent communication skills.
• Strong development experience using IBM WebSphere Family tool sets including IBM Integration Bus v10, App Connect v11/12 and IBM MQ v8.0
• In-depth knowledge of standards/technologies that enable messaging, including XML, WSDL, SOAP, JMS, REST, Swagger, JSON, HTTP and SSL
• Strong working knowledge of DevOps approaches in Continues Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Knowledge of Administration, performance tuning and development in IBM ACE
• Nice to have IIB/ACE 12 certification
• Nice to have familiarity with Agile methodologies and systems development life cycle processes, tools, concepts, and methodologies.
• Nice to have other coding language experience like .NET/C#, PL/SQL
• Nice to have experience with Source Control tool like Azure DevOps Git, GitLab
• Nice to have working knowledge of Cloud solutions and other application integration platforms like Azure API management, Azure logic apps, Event Grids, Kafka etc.
• Seven plus years of experience in hands on development. Three plus years of experience in architecture and system design
• College degree in Computer Science, Management Information Science, Business Administration, or related field preferred.

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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