Senior AI-Driven Solutions Engineer

Pacific Life; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Competitive 401k with company match

Job summary

Pacific Life in Newport Beach is seeking a Senior Applications Solutions Developer to bridge business strategy, enterprise architecture, and software delivery within the Institutional Division.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, SMEs, and engineering teams to design and implement scalable, AI-assisted solutions that meet security and governance standards while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• 6+ years designing, developing, and delivering enterprise software solutions.
• Experience with Python, React, APIs, SQL, integration technologies, or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Experience translating business capabilities into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity.

Responsibilities

• Own solution discovery from business capability through technical implementation.
• Partner with Product Owners, Solution Architects, SMEs, QA, and engineering teams to define scalable, implementable solution paths.
• Produce implementation-ready technical designs, user stories, data mappings, API specifications, and solution documentation.
• Validate solution approaches against enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and governance standards.
• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications using modern software engineering practices.
• Contribute production-quality code while improving application reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Leverage AI development tools to accelerate analysis, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to evaluate technical tradeoffs and establish scalable solution patterns.
• Mentor developers through design discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Drive simplification, automation, reuse, and reduction of technical debt across the application portfolio.

Skills

Python

React

APIs

SQL

AI-assisted tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Claude

Job description

Pacific Life in Newport Beach is seeking a Senior Applications Solutions Developer to bridge business strategy, enterprise architecture, and software delivery within the Institutional Division.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, SMEs, and engineering teams to design and implement scalable, AI-assisted solutions that meet security and governance standards while delivering measurable business outcomes.