Hybrid Application Engineering Director

Amerisure Insurance Company; Farmington Hills (MI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amerisure is seeking an Application Engineering Director to lead our Farmington Hills IT portfolio and drive strategic direction for application development. This role will oversee web apps, APIs, integrations, and modernization efforts while promoting DevOps, user-centered design, and rapid experimentation.

The ideal candidate has a track record of building high-performing engineering teams, implementing scalable processes, and aligning technology with business goals in the insurance sector.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience.
• 10 years of application development experience.
• 3 years of leadership experience.
• Experience in the insurance industry preferred.
• Familiarity with modern cloud-native development models and integration architecture.
• Experience leading a centralized team providing support to multiple aligned development teams.
• Experience in Enterprise DevOps solutions with emphasis on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with digital transformation technology including Salesforce and customer portals preferred.
• Working knowledge of web application development, APIs and API gateway strategies preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively build relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to think strategically with supporting analytical skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Ability to lead discussions, make presentations and deliver technical results to a non-technical audience.
• Ability to manage multiple project work teams using applied principles of project management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct staff in area of responsibility with an emphasis on talent management, development and succession planning in line with the company’s strategic direction.
• Lead a software engineering team focused on delivering web applications, APIs and integrations (PL/SQL and ODI integration platform) while modernizing technical architecture, capabilities, and software development practices and/or platforms.
• Act as Application Development Process Owner for a critical organizational improvement domain such as DevOps, Agile (Scrum or Scaled) or RPA. Establish the processes and tools to be used to foster IT-wide maturity, adoption of software development best practices and provide technical guidance for teams.
• Collaborate across teams to increase adoption of agile methodology and practices that increase organization effectiveness and engineering maturity.
• Work with customers/stakeholders to understand critical business success factors and key performance indicators to be managed, negotiate desired service levels and manage business risks.
• Ensure development strategy and system architecture is aligned with business and IT strategic objectives and technology standards.
• Provide technical expertise and manage relationships with business partners and stakeholders.
• Anticipate and manage technology evolution and relate it to business solutions in support of continuous improvement.
• Actively cultivate an inclusive engineering culture to create high performing teams and individuals with a goal of sustainable, long-term growth and advancement and innovation.
• Accountable for project/product delivery for area of responsibility including staffing, execution approach (design, development, testing and maintenance), customer satisfaction and associated metrics.
• Responsible for budgeting, resource planning, personnel and administrative management functions for assigned development groups.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud-native development

APIs & integration

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Project management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Salesforce

Customer portals

Job description

Amerisure is seeking an Application Engineering Director to lead our Farmington Hills IT portfolio and drive strategic direction for application development. This role will oversee web apps, APIs, integrations, and modernization efforts while promoting DevOps, user-centered design, and rapid experimentation.

The ideal candidate has a track record of building high-performing engineering teams, implementing scalable processes, and aligning technology with business goals in the insurance sector.