Senior Software Engineer (Sitecore)

At Erie Insurance, you're not just part of a Fortune 500 company; you're also a valued member of a diverse and inclusive team that includes more than 6,000 employees and over 13,000 independent agencies. Our Employees work in the Home Office complex located in Erie, PA, and in our Field Offices that span 12 states and the District of Columbia.

Benefits That Go Beyond The Basics

We strive to be Above all in Service® to our customers—and to our employees. That's why Erie Insurance offers you an exceptional benefits package, including :

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees' monthly premium costs.
• Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.

Additional benefits that include company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

Position Summary

Translates and develops requirements into workable software solutions. Maintains and develops programs for use in business and IT automation. Incorporates various accepted methodologies to design software and applications at a critical level to project or release. May perform duties in one or more of the following disciplines : Open Systems Mainframe Application Configuration

What You'll Do :

This opportunity is for a Senior Software Engineer and the focus will be to plan, design, develop and maintain the Agent Exchange and Erie Insurance.com platforms. This role may include supporting the front-end and back-end systems and could include some delivery work for any new development within Vercel, Sitecore, and cloud technology platforms. This role will interact with one or more agile development teams and collaborate with peer developers to translate and develop business and technology requirements into workable software solutions.

Preferred Experience & Skills :

• Prior software development and technology implementation experience required.
• Prior experience in agile process, scrum teams and knowledge of related IT disciplines.
• Ability to successfully communicate and align conceptual approach to technical design.
• Prior insurance Industry knowledge.
• Prior experience in two or more of the following disciplines :

Sitecore (preferred)

• Vercel
• Java
• Azure Cloud
• Systems integration

What Makes You Stand Out :

• Demonstrates technical competencies to ensure successful outcomes.
• Experience providing accurate estimations.
• Has the ability to identify, coordinate, and communicate with partner teams across and outside of the Erie enterprise as warranted.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops program logic for new, complex applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing complex applications. Accurately delivers complicated code, configuration changes and enhancements.
• Contributes to releases with high quality code and unit tests, having challenges in complexity or deadlines. Implements and verifies a complete unit test.
• Contributes to design documents.
• Improves stability of platforms, applications, services and systems.
• Effectively communicates with customers, teammates or other stakeholders, and may function as lead or point of contact. Shares knowledge of systems and mentors or trains others.
• Develops and manages relationships with diverse groups of stakeholders at multiple levels.

The first five duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Capabilities

• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Instills Trust
• Decision Quality
• Values Diversity
• Nimble Learning
• Customer Focus
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Ensures Accountability
• Coding And Converting
• Information Management Skills
• Job-Specific Knowledge
• Proofing Text And Numbers
• Using Tables And Graphs

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field, plus five years' related experience, or;
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus seven years' related experience, or;
• High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience.

Physical Requirements

• Lifting / Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (
• Lifting / Moving 20-50 lbs; Occasional (
• Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely
• Driving; Occasional (
• Pushing / Pulling / moving objects, equipment with wheels; Rarely
• Manual Keying / Data Entry / inputting information / computer use; Frequent (50-80%)
• Climbing / accessing heights; Rarely

Nearest Major Market : Erie