Software Developer

Requisition ID:
req2916

Job Title:
Software Developer

Number of Openings:
1

Job Category:
Professional/Technical

Employment Type:
Regular Full-Time

Shift:
First

Weekends:
Periodic

Location:
Bloomington, IL

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Possesses an understanding of how technology solutions meet the business outcomes and offers a range of solutions for business partners; understand business current and aspirational needs
• Participates in sprint planning; provides work estimates to deliver product stories; owns development stories
• Develops solutions on variety of platforms according to business requirements
• Completes required coding to satisfy the defined acceptance criteria and deliver desired outcome
• Leads solution design, considering risks, mitigations, performance, user experience, and testability
• Assists in development of automated testing and supporting code as necessary
• Completes required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, and business teams
• Utilizes agile software development practices, data and testing standards, code reviews, source code management, continuous delivery, and software architecture
• Participates in the full software development cycle including coding, testing, implementation, support and sunset
• Designs, develops, tests and supports software in support of big data objectives
• Possesses an understanding of User Experience practices to improve usability and interaction between the customer and product
• Adopts Service Design, where appropriate, through architecture modularity to enable continuous delivery
• Considers applying emerging technology solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness; expectation of continuous innovation
• Resolves problems that result in a decreased time to market; improves quality, enhances flexibility, and embraces the solution provider mindset
• Provides input into overall testing plan; contributes to test approach and scenarios for requirements
• Provides product and/or process expertise necessary to support design, development, testing and execution of solutions
• Exhibits DevOps mindset where team is accountable for product from inception to sunset

Additional Details:

Incumbency:

This position will have an 18-month incumbency period, beginning on the effective date of the position, which must be met before the employee can post for any other lateral State Farm position. Employees may be considered for a promotional opportunity into leadership at any time, and into a promotional PRTC position after 6 months from the effective date of the position. In these cases, the remaining incumbency would be waived. The incumbency period does not affect the at-will relationship between State Farm and the employee and does not create an employment contract, nor contractual rights.

Last date to apply: 7/20/2018

Preferred Skills:

• Mainframe development including Cobol.
• Assembler also desirable.