Sr Director Software Engineering

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

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

$149,600.00 - $246,800.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Mgr to join our organization as we grow and transform our Technology landscape. Individual will complete expert end to end engineering tasks as well as manage and lead the development and work products of software engineers. Individual will also plan and execute at a strategic level, lead and influence resources and outcomes, 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?

• Salesforce expert helping to drive the salesforce practice in the intuitive experience value stream and working at the program level to help refine runway and detailed solutions
• Role includes HR responsibilities for the Salesforce engineers.
• Lead a team of Software Engineers while role modeling Travelers' leadership behaviors.
• Complete expert engineering tasks for impactful and high-visibility initiatives.
• Build and develop discipline-specific capabilities across multiple teams, equipping individuals with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to improve the overall quality of engineering practices and skill sets.
• Assess skill gaps and develop mitigation efforts including training needs.
• Align work with business and engineering priorities to realize meaningful impact.
• Build collaborative relationships with key leaders and peers across the organization (i.e. Team Leaders, CoEs) to ensure the best use of overall resources.
• Develop robust talent pipeline. Provide unique opportunities and challenges to each team member to enrich development.
• 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.
• May assist as an individual contributor to an Agile Product Team (e.g. developing solutions to achieve defined business outcomes) in addition to leading a team.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Seven years of programming/development experience plus two years prior technical leadership experience preferred.
• 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/arc