Senior Power Platform Developer

Posted Mar 6

The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.

We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

The Senior Engineer Application Developer will work as part of the Enterprise Services team under the direction of the Solution Automation manager. The position relies on experience and judgment to build, enhance, and support Power Platform solutions for multiple areas of the business, requiring a broad degree of independence, knowledge, and problem-solving skills.

The Senior Engineer Application Developer’s primary responsibilities include designing and developing new applications and automations as well as extending and supporting existing solutions using the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse), Power Fx, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure API Management Gateway, CRM Plugins, PCF Controls, and SQL Server.

The ideal candidate will be a strong leader, communicator, and self-starter working in an agile environment. They will require a high level of experience understanding business problems and coding technically sound solutions following industry best practices while exhibiting the ability to communicate in both a technical and non-technical or business manner, depending on the audience. They will be pivotal in establishing and driving standards for application development and implementation. A familiarity with other serverless microservices, automation, and low code platforms is a plus.

This candidate will have the ability to simultaneously address, manage, and deliver multiple units of work within a given timeframe ensuring the timeline is adhered to, quality requirements are documented and followed, and acceptance criteria is met against deadlines. They will have leadership qualities that will be utilized to mentor junior developers.

The candidate will possess strong institutional knowledge of the insurance and IT industries to craft the most effective and efficient solutions for the business. LOMA Certifications or other insurance industry knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with business, digital agents, and IT partners to evaluate and propose solutions
  • Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop and communicate long term vision and comprehensive strategic plans for solution architecture and delivery.
  • Work with product owners, business users, and technical leads to define requirements, assess business value, and develop specifications for enterprise solutions.
  • Use Agile best practice to design, develop, and maintain solutions built in enterprise applications platforms.
  • Document and monitor application interfaces and architecture
  • Develop and document architecture for enterprise applications and related integrations.
  • Drive standards for development and design techniques used by enterprise application teams.
  • Monitor emerging trends in enterprise application platforms and determine relevance and impact
  • Design and develop integrated business solutions that interact between multiple enterprise platforms within the cloud (Azure).

Work Experience, Education, Certification / Training Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certifications / experience required in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject preferred
  • 3+ years IT development experience required. Operational and/or Incident management experience a plus
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform
  • Strong experience and understanding of Microsoft Power Platform with Azure Development (such as Logic Apps)
  • Strong experience with Dataverse (common data service) and Data modeling
  • Knowledge of Azure infrastructure and capabilities
  • Experience with other low code business driven modeling systems like PowerApps – Nintex, AppSheet, Salesforce Platform will be considered as an advantage
  • Experience with other Microsoft technologies, languages, and frameworks will be considered as an advantage
  • Experience working on a project team using a waterfall and/or agile SDLC methodology required (Agile preferred)
  • Microsoft Power Platform Certification(s) will be considered as an advantage
  • Knowledge and experience in Scrum methodology
  • Experienced with development practices: code review, coding standards, continuous integration, pair programming
  • Data migration and data integration experience will be considered as an advantage
  • Experience in the Insurance industry and/or LOMA coursework; ALMI designation a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

  • Strong communication skills
  • The adaptability to work in an dynamic environment
  • Ability to think outside the box to provide innovative solutions
  • Self-starter that can initiate research and/or contact others to solve issues
  • Embrace team environment and success
  • Technically capable of performing job responsibilities and passion for technical growth
  • Willingness not only to understand the technical nature of the task, but to build the subject domain knowledge around why the task is being done and how the results are being utilized by the business
  • Strong aptitude to pick up new skills and knowledge through research and perseverance
  • Available to travel 4-5 times a year for planning and team collaboration

$95,000 - $120,000 a year

Protective’s targeted salary range for this position is $95,000 to $120,000. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to, job location, skills, and experience. The range listed is just one component of Protective’s total compensation package for employees.

This position also offers additional incentive opportunities through an annual incentive based on individual and Company performance.

Employee Benefits:

We aim to protect our employees' wellbeing through a broad benefits offering. For example, we protect physical wellbeing through health, dental and vision insurance. We protect mental wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. We protect time away from work with a variety of paid time away benefits ( e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). We protect financial wellbeing through contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.

Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.

Diversity and Inclusion :

At Protective, we are committed to providing an inclusive culture where all employees are able to fully contribute and thrive. Our goal is to grow and develop our people, attract diverse talent and support strong, diverse communities.

We support diversity, equity, and inclusion by working to develop a culture of inclusion and belonging led by leaders who develop potential and embrace unique skills and abilities. Our aim is to create an equitable and accountable environment for all leaders and employees that will drive performance and impact business strategy. In this way, we can increase overall diversity for leadership roles and pipelines of talent by maturing our hiring practices, robust development opportunities and focus on retention of key talent.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing the talents of a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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