Software Engineering Manager- Insurance Product Personal Lines

Location: Hybrid Work Model – Van Wert, Ohio or Dublin, Ohio

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager that can lead, coach, and empower a team of software engineers to deliver world-class solutions. You will partner with product management on roadmap development, with tech leads on design and architecture, and be responsible for a delivery process that pushes features into production consistently and with high quality. We expect our leaders to be coaches and people development is a critical focus for this role.

What you will do

• Must be able to drive software delivery on the Insurance Product roadmap.
• Leads engineers on one product-facing teams. Plays a critical role in building of various software engineering projects while aligning them with business and following security strategies and engineering org standards.
• Establishes operational objectives, procedures and work plans and delegates assignments to the team(s).
• Makes final decisions on implementation and ensures operational effectiveness.
• Guides the product manager on design and implementation trade-offs against economic and time costs.
• Translates problems into designs that guide software engineering teams through implementation of the product.
• Has the detailed technical knowledge necessary to explain feature requirements to developers and work with them to deliver these product improvements to end users.
• Engages with Tech Leads and broader Central Insurance technology excellence communities to provide technical vision and strategy for the teams; design and lead a technical roadmap, balancing short- and long-term technology investments.
• Executes on technology strategy and engineering roadmaps created by Director or Senior Managers.
• Provides engineers with specific coaching on how to be scale their effectiveness through technical, professional or business growth
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates.
• Participates in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for CMI are met, by working with Devops engineers and development team members.

What you will bring

• 4 years related experience in PL
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior experience on teams that supported software for Finance & Accounting teams in the Insurance industry.
• Technical credibility: Experience as an engineer or senior engineer
• General understanding of leadership skills, including coaching, team building, and conflict resolution
• Advanced project management skills including time and risk management, resource prioritization, and project structuring.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage teams across geographies to drive workforce development and achieve desired results
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence skills
• Advanced business acumen, technical knowledge, and extensive knowledge in applications and technologies
• Strong multi-tasking and prioritization skills
• Ability to understand Central Insurance’s policies and processes