Software Development Manager

Full Time
Jersey City, NJ
Posted
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We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.


Job Description
  • Effectively lead and manage a team of developers/analysts in the requirements, design, development, test, and deployment of high-volume digital content authoring and management platform.
  • Engage and manage globally distributed teams, and provide hands-on management, mentoring, and coaching of resources and drive annual goals.
  • Decide on suitable strategies and objectives needed to meet system transformation goals including but not limited to the re-host, re-invention and buy vs. build decisions required
  • Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to analysts and software developers and effectively resolve production problems in a timely manner.
  • Effectively communicate software solution expectations to internal customers, team members and other stakeholders.
  • Propose, lead and implement scalable, sustainable and cost-effective solutions meeting internal and external customers’ objectives.
  • Engage with senior management, peers and internal customers to plan and prioritize projects and resource allocation.
  • Proactively communicate statuses, issues and escalations to senior management and stakeholders.
  • Work with external vendors to source, negotiate and manage contract resources and solution services.

Qualifications
  • At least 1-3 years of management plus at least 8 years of experience with building and operating high-volume content management and authoring applications.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred in Computer Science or Information Systems and proven technical background, excellent technical, management, problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
  • Ability to deliver simple and elegant software solutions, digital content centric products, utilizing Agile development processes. Ability to lead teams of software developers and analysts, internal customers, infrastructure and operations teams and vendors to drive results.
  • Proven experience in application analysis, application architecture and development.
  • Strong understanding of web, desktop application and database concepts
  • Expertise in Microsoft .Net, Sharepoint, C#, TFS, JS, Search Engines (solrSolr, elastic search/Open Search, FAST) and SQL Server
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate requirements, design, development, integration, test plans, migration/cutover plans and ongoing documentation of processes and change modifications.
  • Ability to remain agile and adjust priorities based on workload, management directives and customer demands.
  • Flexible management style; ability to quickly adapt to changing work environments and be hands-on as needed.
  • Proven ability to build customer, business and peer relationships and manage business needs and expectations.
  • Experience in developing content authoring and content management systems or products is highly desirable.
  • Experience in cloud-based environment is desired. AWS experience or familiarity is a big plus.
  • Experience in Budgeting and Forecasting a big plus.
  • Systems architecture and development experience is required.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively to audiences at all levels. Ability to exercise executive-friendly communication skills.

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Additional Information


In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
  • Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
  • Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
  • Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the 7th consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

http://www.verisk.com/careers.html

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