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Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a \"small company\" culture where your ideas will be heard with \"big company\" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.\nAt Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.\n\nThis position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes. IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures, The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors.\nGreat American’s culture is built on connection, shared learning, and strong relationships. This is a hybrid role that combines in-office and remote work. Employees are expected to maintain a meaningful on-site presence to support collaboration, relationship building, and business success.\nThe Agent & Insured Digital Experience (AIE) team is seeking a results-oriented Application Engineering Supervisor to provide people leadership, technical guidance, and day-to-day delivery support for a team of application engineers. The AIE team is responsible for Great American’s externally facing Agent and Insured Portals, providing critical digital self-service experiences for agents and policyholders.\nThis individual will partner closely with product leaders, the Delivery Manager, Technical Product Managers, architects, and cross-functional delivery teams to translate business priorities into secure, reliable, maintainable, and production-ready technology solutions. The Application Engineering Supervisor coordinates team priorities, coaches and develops engineers, promotes strong engineering practices, and remains actively engaged in technical delivery and problem-solving.\nThis is a working leadership position that combines direct people management with hands-on application engineering responsibilities. The Application Engineering Supervisor may contribute to application design, development, pair programming, code review, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and production support while helping the team deliver quality outcomes from feature definition through ongoing sustainment.\nEssential Job Functions and Responsibilities\nCoordinates the daily operations of the Application Engineering team, optimizing workflows and supporting efficient, predictable delivery.\nProvides direct supervision, coaching, feedback, mentorship, and professional development support to application engineers and participates in decisions involving talent selection, recognition, development, and performance management.\nServes as a working technical leader and team Anchor by providing day-to-day technical direction, reinforcing engineering standards, facilitating collaboration, and contributing directly to application design, development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and production support when appropriate.\nLeads and contributes to the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, maintenance, and evolution of software applications and systems supporting business and insurance processes.\nReviews technical specifications, feature requirements, and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, dependencies, risks, edge cases, and implementation considerations before development begins.\nGuides and reviews technical decisions, code, and deliverables involving application architecture, implementation patterns, APIs, integrations, data flow, error handling, security, performance, scalability, testability, maintainability, and operational support.\nCultivates a collaborative environment across development, operations, product, quality assurance, architecture, and business teams to design and implement solutions that improve system interoperability, delivery outcomes, operational effectiveness, and the user experience.\nPromotes collaborative engineering practices, including pair programming, code review, shared problem-solving, knowledge transfer, and collective code ownership.\nEnsures software changes include testing appropriate to their risk and complexity, along with necessary documentation, security controls, logging, monitoring, error handling, deployment planning, and recovery considerations.\nCoordinates with Quality Assurance, Release Management, Production Support, architecture, and other delivery partners to support release planning, implementation, validation, and post-release monitoring, including preparing and reviewing applicable release, support, and recovery artifacts.\nMonitors application performance and reliability and promotes meaningful logging, telemetry, performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and actionable alerting to identify and resolve issues affecting system efficiency, availability, or the user experience.\nProvides technical leadership and expert support during complex application issues and production incidents, including triage, mitigation, troubleshooting, recovery, root-cause analysis, and preventive follow-up.\nCommunicates delivery progress, technical concerns, blockers, resource constraints, dependencies, and risks clearly and early.\nIdentifies and helps implement improvements to engineering practices, delivery processes, documentation, automation, testing, release management, and production support.\nIdentifies technical debt, application risks, and modernization opportunities and works with Application Engineering management, architects, and product partners to recommend pragmatic solutions.\nSupports adherence to established software development lifecycle practices, security baselines, architectural standards, data privacy requirements, change management processes, and operational controls.\nLeverages AI-powered tools responsibly to support software development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, process analysis, and data interpretation; identifies patterns, gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities while maintaining appropriate human review and complying with company policies related to data privacy, security, intellectual property, and responsible AI usage.\nPerforms other duties as assigned.\nSkills & Competencies\nPeople leadership, coaching, and employee development\nHands-on application engineering, technical leadership, and sound engineering judgment\nAdvanced proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, RESTful APIs, integrations, databases, application architecture, and modern development frameworks\nAgile software development using methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Extreme Programming\nPair programming, code review, knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem-solving\nRequirements analysis and identification of technical gaps, dependencies, risks, and edge cases\nSoftware testing, quality engineering, CI/CD, release management, deployment, validation, recovery, and production-readiness practices\nApplication performance, observability, logging, telemetry, synthetic monitoring, incident response, production troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis\nSecurity, data privacy, risk management, and responsible AI usage\nProcess improvement, automation, and application modernization\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, organizational, and time-management skills\nClear and effective communication and cross-functional collaboration\nAbility to see the big picture while maintaining focus on delivery details\nAdaptability, continuous learning, customer focus, and results orientation\nScope of Job:\nFunctions as a first-line people leader responsible for the daily coordination, coaching, development, and performance of an Application Engineering team and participates in decisions regarding talent selection, recognition, development, and performance management.\nBalances direct supervisory responsibilities with hands-on technical participation and may perform application engineering work alongside team members to support delivery, resolve complex issues, maintain technical proficiency, or develop team capabilities.\nOperates under established policies, procedures, engineering standards, and organizational direction with limited oversight.\nOversees team priorities and coordinates daily work, applying sound judgment when balancing business needs, customer outcomes, delivery commitments, technical quality, team capacity, production support, and operational risk.\nMaintains advanced technical proficiency and provides expertise across Java, Spring Boot, microservices, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, integrations, cloud platforms, databases, automated testing, observability, security, and production-support practices.\nDemonstrates an understanding of machine learning and generative AI concepts and their implications for software engineering, security, privacy, quality, and maintainability.\nHelps ensure the team meets established delivery, quality, performance, operational, and budget 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