Enterprise Center of Excellence- Team Lead (Hybrid)

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

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 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.

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.

Selective is dedicated to driving innovation and excellence across all our operations. Our Enterprise IT Center of Excellence (CoE) teams are hubs for best practices, continuous improvement, and strategic initiatives. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced CoE Engineering Manager to join our team and help us achieve our goals.

As part of our growing CoE services, the Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading projects, driving strategic initiatives, and building/maturing CoE services in areas such as Cloud Solutions and DevSecOps

• Define and drive the vision, roadmap and strategy
• Lead,, mentor and grow a team of engineers, ensure a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence
• Relationship Management: Develop and maintain productive working relationships with project sponsors, key systems users, end-users, and other IT functions.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and create documentation for projects and CoE needs, including design, asset inventory, diagrams, presentations, and documentation of the environment and deployment for support and future implementations.
• Design and Development: Supervise and guide the design and development activities for entire applications. Design, develop, program, and implement systems to specifications, and develop/coordinate execution plans.
• Project Formalization: Formalize project and CoE activities and guide projects/initiatives to completion. Prepare regular status reports.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Solutions and Enterprise Architects to create and review implementation designs.
• Strategic Support: Support the formulation of the platform-specific CoE vision, strategy, and value proposition, and drive the execution of CoE services.
• Opportunity Maximization: Partner with functional areas and other CoE teams to identify and maximize deployment opportunities.
• Training and Development: Deliver and drive lunch-and-learn sessions and produce training materials for organizational consumption.
• Team Supervision: Supervise developers, assign project staff, estimate resource needs, plan team member work assignments and schedules, and guide and monitor work productivity. Facilitate proactive issue and risk identification and resolution.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Management Information Science, or related field preferred
• 8+ years in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related fields.
• 5+ plus years of developer/analyst experience in space of Cloud, Azure DevOps/SharePoint Onine/Power Platform space
• Experience working in a COE setup model, well versed with the concept of platform engineering
• Proven track record in leading teams and maturing their practices

Skills

• Strong leadership and management skills
• Possesses excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
• Well versed with the Agile based methodologies for software development life cycle
• Ability to effectively collaborate with people in other departments and/or outside of the enterprise.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Good Knowledge of PowerShell Script, REST API, SharePoint Services, SPFX Framework, MS Team, Power Platform capabilities (in space of power apps, power automate, virtual agents)
• Working Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Drive to master emerging technologies and share experiences with organization

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and paid time off plans. Additional details about our total rewards package will be provided during the recruiting process.

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 relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs.

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.