Senior Java Developer

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Responsible for analyzing and translating business, information, and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve business objectives.
• Provides expertise and standards to produce an optimal, high level, conceptual design for projects and applications.
• Responsible for the technology roadmap and direction for the application(s).
• Facilitates the establishment and implementation of application and solutions architecture standards, policies, and procedures for the organization. Ensures adherence to company architectural guidelines, principles, and standards in all project milestones and deliverables.
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.
• Assists project teams in requirements gathering and reviews. Gathers Non-functional requirements that meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security needs.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new technologies and techniques and solutions to solve business problems.
• Works with various customers and prospects, understands and translates business use cases and/or requirements into solutions across multiple platforms.
• Exhibits specialized business knowledge and leverages strong customer relationships. Partners with Product Owners to elicit business needs and outcomes.
• Collaborates with the portfolio/program and domain architects to make design/architectural decisions for the application.
• Leads the work of others (trains, mentors, delegates, prioritizes, and reviews assignments).
• Provides technical guidance to project team areas as appropriate.
• May have responsibility for performance and coaching of staff and may have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development, and performance management for direct reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or Master's Degree or equivalent experience.

Field of Study: Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.

Experience: 10 to 12 years of related experience.

Business Unit:

Benefits:

We offer competitive healthcare, retirement and paid time off benefits.