At EMC, we’re all about working together to make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and gain experience that matters. We strive to be caring leaders, close partners, and responsive experts—always supporting each other to do our best work. Join us, and let’s improve lives together.
**This position is eligible to work from home anywhere in the United States; ideal candidate will reside in the state of Iowa**
Essential Functions:
Designs and maintains assigned applications and processes:
Develops, configures, and implements within multiple complex, inter-related systems, using modern programming techniques, frameworks, and tools while adapting to evolving technologies and team needs
Leads the design, deployment, and continuous optimization of cloud-hosted environments, ensuring alignment with best practices for scalability, security, and performance
Develops and maintains N-tier application structures, independently coordinating between presentation, business, and data layers
Collaborates with and provides guidance to other areas of IT to ensure that interfaces to complex enterprise and third-party applications are executing efficiently
Designs and documents interfaces to complex enterprise and third-party applications
Conceptualizes and develops new components and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and providing application support
Proactively anticipates and provides guidance on potential impact to other systems
Coordinates collaboration with product teams to ensure that company initiatives are met
Designs, builds, and maintains CI/CD pipelines to streamline and automate the build, test, and deployment processes, ensuring efficient and reliable delivery
Creates and maintains documentation related to the design of interfaces to complex enterprise and third-party applications, APIs and other assigned work and systems in accordance with departmental and team standards
Participates in the creation of design and architecture documentation and in creating and maintaining standards and best practices documents
Works with emerging technologies and designs solutions for business cases to determine applicability for future projects
Security Administration and Quality:
Guides product teams for assigned programs/applications through access control and security for various enterprise-wide software tools
Develops, advocates, approves and guides effective testing plans using test-driven development
Actively incorporates security protocols and data quality measures throughout the development lifecycle
Builds strategy with product teams for remediation of issues with security and quality for assigned applications/programs
Leads and reviews test results, production data and reports to ensure data quality and integrity
Prepares test cases, tests and validates application configurations to meet business requirements, performance level, and availability thresholds
System Troubleshooting and Monitoring
Monitors the operation of assigned programs and responds to problems by diagnosing and correcting errors in logic and coding, and recommending corrections to other engineers
Analyzes day-to-day functionality of assigned applications and serves as the main point of contact
Diagnoses and resolves system issues, including verifying and reproducing complex problems
Leads the process to implement long-term solutions and ensure system reliability, including collaborating with team members to develop solutions
Monitors and analyzes system performance, identifying trends and areas for improvement. Proactively implements adjustments to maintain compliance with standards, policies, and procedures while minimizing downtime
Leadership/Technical Expertise
Serves as a technical resource and trains other team members on programming techniques and system functionality
Develops and maintains positive customer relationships with internal and external contacts
Evaluates current processes and recommends changes
Serves as a technical resource to product teams in latest technology, standards and processes
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a computer related field or equivalent related experience and five years of programming experience in techniques and languages such as C#, Java, or Python
Master’s degree, preferably in a computer related field or equivalent related experience and three years of programming experience in techniques and languages such as C#, Java, or Python
Prior experience with AWS preferred
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Strong knowledge of object oriented programming concepts
Strong knowledge of relational databases and data modeling
Strong knowledge of cloud services
Strong knowledge of web development
Strong knowledge of REST architecture
Strong knowledge of source code control
Good knowledge of Agile development preferred
Strong knowledge of test-driven development
Excellent human relations and customer service skills
Thorough attention to detail, organizational and multi-tasking skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including documentation
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities to identify problems and implement effective solutions
Ability to work after hours on call as needed
The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either of the following:
$92,670 - $128,045 or $102,443 - $140,845A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range. The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, geographic location, and business needs.
For information relating to the benefits EMC Team Members receive as part of a comprehensive rewards package, please visit www.emcins.com/careers.
Our employment practices are in accordance with the laws that prohibit discrimination due to race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, active military status, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
All of our locations are tobacco free including in company vehicles.
What We Do
EMC Insurance Companies is among the top 60 insurance organizations in the country based on net written premium, and we have more than 2,500 employees. The company was organized in 1911 to write workers’ compensation protection in Iowa. Today, EMC provides property and casualty insurance products and services throughout the United States and writes reinsurance contracts worldwide. Operating under the trade name EMC Insurance Companies, Employers Mutual Casualty Company and one or more of its affiliated companies is licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
