Solutions Engineer, Software

Description
At Liberty, you'll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects. This position follows a hybrid work model (2 days onsite) and is open to candidates located in Portsmouth, NH; Boston, MA; Plano, TX; Indianapolis, IN; and Columbus, OH.
The GRS Resiliency and Engineering Excellence Operations Transformation team is hiring a Solutions Engineer to contribute to Modernization and Technical Obsolescence goals. The Solutions Engineer brings a deep technical background and expertise to support technology teams across GRS with modernization and technical debt reduction goals to ensure applications are resilient, optimized, and future ready. This role will provide technical and thought leadership and coaching, as needed, to lead cross-domain, strategic enterprise modernization initiatives.
Works closely with stakeholders (GRS and GDS) to define and prioritize modernization goals and opportunities, ensuring alignment with customer needs and both short and long-term organizational goals. Collaborates with squad/teams and architects across multiple portfolios to develop a deep understanding of the technologies and systems they support. Identifies existing capabilities and ensures their adoption where needed within the portfolio, as well as identifying capability gaps and ensuring there aren't duplicative efforts taking place to help reduce redundancy and promote reuse.
Responsibilities:

• Legacy Application Modernization:
• Provide thought leadership and actively explore opportunities in patterns, tooling, and standard practices for incremental modernization
• Partner with GRS architecture to define modernization best practices by tech stack and pair/partner with engineering and architecture peers to help identify specific applications or portfolios that would benefit most from incremental modernization.
• Assess and analyze existing legacy applications to identify areas for modernization.
• Develop and implement strategies to update and enhance legacy systems, ensuring they meet current technology standards and business requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deploy modernized solutions that improve performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Database Migrations:
• Support the planning and execution of database migration projects, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Collaborate with database administrators and other stakeholders to develop migration strategies and timelines.
• Perform data validation and integrity checks to ensure successful migration and accurate data transfer.
• Technical Debt Reduction:
• Identify and prioritize technical debt within the organization's software systems.
• Develop and execute plans to reduce technical debt, improving code quality and system reliability.
• Advocate for best practices in software development to prevent the accumulation of new technical debt.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Propose and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering team.
• Contribute to developing best practices, standards, and guidelines for software development and system architecture.
• Mentoring:
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers and engineers, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Conduct code reviews and offer constructive feedback to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Lead training sessions and workshops to share knowledge on modern development techniques and tools.
• Collaboration & Communication:
• Work closely with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and solutions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to ensure alignment and continuous improvement.

Qualifications
Experience

• 10+ years of related software engineering experience; 5 years at a Principal or higher engineer position preferred
• Extensive knowledge of software architecture, contemporary frameworks, and emerging technologies
• A comprehensive understanding of agile environments
• Experience with Legacy System Modernization: Proven track record of updating and integrating legacy systems with modern AI technologies.
• A history of practicing DevOps, CI/CD and building cloud-based applications
• A strong background in business operations and strategies, including knowledge of global business, technology trends and the financial services industry
• Experience in modernizing legacy J2EE WAS based Applications
• Experience in centralizing or migrating IBM MQSeries queues
• Experience in migrating legacy DB migrations to PaaS / RDS services (e.g. DB2 to Postgres, Sybase to SQL, etc)
• Experience implementing GitHub Actions in both modern and legacy applications
• Experience or familiarity with Observability implementations with DataDog

Qualifications Skills

• Ability to identify patterns and problems across teams and deliver effective solutions
• Openness and adaptability to respond to fast-moving circumstances
• A design thinking and test-driven development mindset
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, and an aptitude for working in teams
• Solid negotiation, facilitation, consensus building and influencing capabilities
• AI-Driven Automation: Skills in implementing AI-driven automation to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

Knowledge

• Experience in developing or architecting cloud-based, responsive web applications using Java, SpringBoot, Javascript/Typescript/Angular, and AWS technologies; knowledge of SQL and noSQL databases
• Deep understanding of layered solutions and designs
• Cognizance of security concerns, from access control and authentication to secured SDLC processes
• Experience with technical debt management and database migrations

Education
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience
About Us
Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.
As a purpose-driven organization, Liberty Mutual is committed to fostering an environment where employees from all backgrounds can build long and meaningful careers. Through strong relationships, comprehensive benefits and continuous learning opportunities, we seek to create an environment where employees can succeed, both professionally and personally.
At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. By providing protection for the unexpected and delivering it with care, we help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow.
We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where employees from all backgrounds can build long and meaningful careers. By actively seeking employee feedback and amplifying the voices of our seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are open to all, we create an environment where every individual can make a meaningful impact so we continue to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits
Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
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• California
• Los Angeles Incorporated
• Los Angeles Unincorporated
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco

USD $134000.00 - $254000.00