Director, Sr Software Engineer - Velogica

SCOR UK Company Limited; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) Plan with a competitive match

Life and AD&D insurance

Long- and Short-Term Disability

Flexible Parental Leave

Unlimited Sick Days

Volunteer Time

Summer Fridays

Learning & Development Resources

Job summary

SCOR UK Company Limited seeks a Director, Sr Software Engineer to guide Velogica's high-availability life insurance underwriting platform from Charlotte, NC. You will own architecture, drive secure, scalable backend solutions, mentor engineers, and influence across teams while delivering hands-on results.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, UW, QA, and implementation teams, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to testing, security, and observability. Hybrid work policy applies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering in Agile delivery.
• Experience delivering reliable software in high-availability environments.
• Strong Java backend and REST API expertise with complex data models.
• Experience leading architectural design across multiple services.
• Ability to influence peers and collaborate without formal authority.
• Mentoring engineers and promoting design quality and testing.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery for medium-to-large initiatives across components/services.
• Lead architecture decisions for backend/service-oriented solutions with trade-offs.
• Influence direction and practices through clear design artifacts and reviews.
• Contribute to unit, integration, and regression test efforts.
• Enforce CI/CD quality gates including security checks and automated tests.
• Document runbooks, system details, and known issues.
• Participate in sprint planning, demos, and daily scrum.
• Support client onboarding and integration activities.
• Lead incident response and drive corrective improvements.
• Improve observability through logging, tracing, and alerts.

Skills

Java backend

REST APIs

Cloud-hosted systems

Observability

CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Architecture & design

Security & compliance

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in information services management, computer science, applied mathematics, or related field

Tools

CI/CD

Source control

Logging/Monitoring

Automated testing

Runbooks

Job description

Director, Sr Software Engineer - Velogica

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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Job Description

This role partners with Product Owners, UW/Config, QA, and Implementation teams to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable capabilities for a high-availability, high-volume automated life insurance underwriting platform.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no formal people management responsibility; leadership is exercised through technical influence, architecture and design stewardship, high-quality implementation, and mentoring of engineers while maintaining hands-on delivery ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery for medium-to-large initiatives across multiple components/services.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for backend/service-oriented solutions, including performance, maintainability, security, and operability trade-offs.
• Influence technical direction and engineering practices across teams without formal authority using clear design artifacts, code reviews, and evidence-based recommendations.
• Contribute meaningfully to implementation and test automation efforts, including unit, integration, and regression coverage.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and enforce quality gates including peer review, linting/static checks, security checks, and automated tests before release.
• Produce and maintain project, system, and testing documentation, including runbooks and known-issue notes.
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, demos, and daily scrum to communicate progress and unblock impediments.
• Partner with implementation and business teams to support client onboarding and integration activities.
• Participate in rotating production support and incident response, including leading diagnosis and coordination for complex incidents and driving corrective/preventive improvements.
• Implement and improve observability practices (structured logging, tracing, diagnostics, and actionable alerts).
• Participate in controls compliance and auditing activities and adhere to SCOR information security policies and best practices, including PII handling, secrets management, and required security training.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of SDLC standards, tooling, and team effectiveness.
• Model and encourage responsible AI-assisted development practices for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.
• Other duties as required for the position.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in information services management, computer science, applied mathematics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver reliable software in high-availability, high-volume service ecosystems.
• Strong expertise with Java and service-oriented backend development, including REST APIs, data persistence, and SQL against complex data models.
• Demonstrated experience with modern engineering workflows and tooling, including source control, issue tracking, CI/CD, code review, and automated testing.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical design and implementation for complex features spanning multiple services/components.
• Demonstrated ability to influence peers and partner teams through technical credibility, communication, and collaborative execution.
• Demonstrated mentoring/coaching of engineers through design and code feedback.
• Strong analytical problem-solving, verbal/written communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy, proactively identify risks, propose mitigations, and drive work to completion.
• Cloud-hosted systems and operational tooling (compute, storage, queues, metrics/logging).
• Observability tooling.
• Cross-team technical lead experience.

Insurance/re-insurance domain knowledge.

• Scope: Owns technical delivery for large initiatives with cross-service and cross-team impact.
• Complexity: Solves ambiguous, multi-system problems with clear trade-off decisions across performance, maintainability, security, and delivery speed.
• Autonomy: Executes independently with minimal day-to-day direction while maintaining transparent stakeholder communication.
• Influence: Raises engineering standards and aligns teams through design quality, code review, and technical leadership without formal people-management authority.

Relocation assistance within the U.S. is available for this position.

Candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

At SCOR, we CARE about clients, people, and societies, and we are committed to placing them at the center of everything we do. Providing great benefit choices to you and your family is just one of the ways we support the physical, financial, and emotional well-being of the people who make our company successful - you.

Benefits We Offer

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) Plan with a competitive match
• Company-funded Defined Contribution Retirement Program
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Long- and Short-Term Disability
• Flexible Parental Leave
• Unlimited Sick Days
• Volunteer Time
• Summer Fridays
• Learning & Development Resources
• Personal Wellness Tools and Rewards
• Competitively priced gym memberships from a large nationwide network of gym brands and local fitness studios
• And More!

Hybrid Work Policy: SCOR is committed to an "in office" culture where people can collaborate, exchange ideas, and establish stronger working relationships while still providing flexibility.

To support employee work-life balance and increase opportunities for employees to excel every day, SCOR operates with a hybrid working arrangement. SCOR employees work 3 days per week in an office with the flexibility to work 2 days per week remotely.

Pay Range for roles performed in NC: $120,000-$160,000 base salary per year. Actual salaries may vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, role and performance. The range listed is just one component of SCOR's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long term incentives. In addition, we provide a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement saving plan, paid holidays and paid time off.

• Job Category Data Science and Business Intelligence
• Posting Date 03/31/2026, 12:54 PM
• Locations 101 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, 28280, US

About Us

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.