Senior Software Architect & Technical Leader

SCOR; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) Plan

Life & Disability Insurance

Flexible Parental Leave

Unlimited Sick Days

Learning & Development

Wellness Tools

Job summary

SCOR in Charlotte, NC seeks a Director, Sr Software Engineer for Velogica, a high-volume underwriting platform. You will lead technical delivery, architecture decisions, and mentorship, while maintaining hands-on delivery and collaboration with Product, UW/Config, QA, and Implementation teams.

Hybrid in-office schedule with 3 days on-site and 2 remote days; relocation assistance within the U.S. is available. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Cloud

Observability

CI/CD

Architecture

Mentoring

Security

High availability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

SCOR in Charlotte, NC seeks a Director, Sr Software Engineer for Velogica, a high-volume underwriting platform. You will lead technical delivery, architecture decisions, and mentorship, while maintaining hands-on delivery and collaboration with Product, UW/Config, QA, and Implementation teams.

Hybrid in-office schedule with 3 days on-site and 2 remote days; relocation assistance within the U.S. is available. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.