Hybrid Solution Engineer, Agile Dev Team Member V – Salesforce

at Farmers Insurance

• Job title: Solution Engineer, Agile Dev Team Member V – Salesforce
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $112,720 - $200,625 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ETL, JavaScript, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Woodland Hills, United States

About the role

• Agile Dev Team Member responsible for system design, development, and testing for Farmers Insurance. Collaborating on solutions and supporting product owners in Agile methodologies within a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates customer needs by interpreting into viable solutions and leads the system design.
• Effectively breaks down features and writes and refines user stories, including clear and accurate acceptance criteria.
• Executes Test-Driven (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to build in quality.
• Performs broad and detailed impact assessments relating to people, processes, and/or technology to evaluate work.
• Supports implementation activities, troubleshoots user/system environmental issues, and provides training.
• Supports business in building a Lean Business case and breaking epics into features.
• Identifies and raises issues, risks with functional design, and offers alternative solutions.
• Works with the Product Owner to confirm that the code and acceptance tests reflect the desired functionality.
• Codes instructions for computer programs/objects/components in multiple applications; configures packaged software.
• Provides a high level of expertise in the solution design and functionality of business applications.
• Reviews and validates the application technical design of team members to ensure alignment with business needs and best practice architecture principles.
• Responsible for the conceptual design/architecture of business applications, monitors, and mentors lower-level colleagues to ensure accuracy of program logic and efficient use of computer and storage resources.
• Conducts system studies, analyzes existing computerized and manual processes to improve efficiency.
• Researches and develops techniques for automation.
• Documents and implements programs according to installation standards and conventions.
• Analyzes and makes recommendations on the need for system backup, security, restart/recovery, balancing controls, and recommends approaches for meeting such needs.
• Analyzes and documents the requirements and approaches to data conversion and data modeling.
• Quality checks program code, related objects, and documentation.
• Delivers working code each sprint.
• Conducts audits to ensure test planning and execution adhere to standards and guidelines.
• Defines advanced test plans needed to achieve an appropriate level of coverage.
• Contributes to the overall test strategy.
• Develops and documents application quality and testing standards and best practices and measuring techniques.
• Mentors junior team members in test planning and execution tools and techniques.
• Participates in key ceremonies to drive execution, improve flow, and ensure transparency.
• Provides limited guidance to junior team members when needed.
• Plans work via the preparation for and participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning and Sprint Planning, which includes developing and committing to Team PI Objectives and Sprint goals.
• Demonstrate working code to Product and Business Owners and support the Product Owner in the execution of the iteration and PI System Demos.
• Actively participates in the Sprint Retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt, discusses opportunities for improvement, and is responsible for executing improvement stories.
• Participates in Daily Stands-ups.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year as a Agile Dev Team Member IV or 9 + years in a related field.
• 7 years of experience working in application development in the Property & Casualty insurance industry, strongly preferred.
• Specific experience must also include 1 year of experience mentoring junior developers, strongly preferred.
• Technical Qualifications (continued)
• Lightning Web Components
• API Data integration with MuleSoft and OData Layer for complex integrations.
• UX design and development (CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
• CTI / Telephony integrations (Cisco telephony systems, Verint, iEX, B&S)
• Working with SQL and ETL data applications, including IICS Data Integrations.

Benefits

• Bonus Opportunity (based on Company and Individual Performance)
• 401(k)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Assistance