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$120000 - $160000

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are in search of the world’s most creative and experienced engineering leaders. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established organizations. As a key member of the development leadership team, you will lead the development strategy for our enterprise products. Partnering with product management and development leaders, you will interact with development teams to drive innovative solutions that meet our customer’s business needs.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

+ Lead through example and persuasion, rather than through tasking/directing

+ Lead your development team and promote Agile best practices

+ Present observed risks/issues to appropriate parties to create awareness and prompt discussion

+ Understand and foster culture of quality throughout the organization

+ Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring and growing individuals; demonstrate a passion for people development and mobility

+ Closely follow industry trends and the open-source community

+ Communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations, internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort

+ Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business

+ Have a cooperative, collaborative, open and flexible mindset

+ Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

+ Extensive experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum or other scaled Agile model

+ Strong communication and relationship building skills

+ Strategic thinker: think end-to-end by connecting all pieces of the business (development, product management, QA, operations, etc.) to deliver the features to delight the customer while leveraging all available assets

+ Energetic, effectively managing relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done

+ Can create a fun, fast paced, motivating, and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization

+ Attract, build, and retain highly engaged and capable Agile teams who help drive the success of our technology and business strategies

+ Are creative, turning problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better processes

+ Bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment

+ Are self-motivated and excellent problems-solvers

+ Are driven to improve, personally and professionally

+ Hunger to learn new concepts, new technologies, and be exposed to/adopt new ideas

+ Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them

+ Love to collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions

Qualifications:

+ Have 4- years professional experience as a development manager in an agile environment including working with enterprise customers on large scale projects

+ Have experience with Test Driven Development

+ Have proven track record in leading architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale web delivery platforms, products and services in a high performance and high-availability SaaS environment

+ Can interact with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts

+ Have experience with .NET, as well as common frameworks and infrastructure

+ Experience with both relational and NoSQL

+ Are energetic, effectively managing relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done

+ Experience working with Product Management leaders and stakeholders

+ Have an ability to influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization

+ Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth

Additional Requirements and Details:

+ Travel required up to 10% of the time.

+ Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

+ Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

+ Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

+ Frequent sitting and/or standing.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.

• Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.

• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.

• Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.

• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.

• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.