Solutions Engineer, Software
Description
Hiring Manager: Alyson Longley
You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. We will not sponsor employment visas. Candidates who will require future sponsorship, including candidates on CPT/OPT/STEMOPT who will require future sponsorship, are not eligible to apply.
At Liberty, you'll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects. This position follows a hybrid work model (2 days onsite) and is open to candidates located in Portsmouth, NH; Boston, MA; Plano, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Columbus, OH and Seattle, WA.
Do you have the skills-and drive-to join a tech team that’s working to digitally transform a trillion-dollar industry? From test-driving the latest technologies to creating intuitive consumer apps, Liberty Mutual is constantly innovating and creating industry-leading solutions that provide peace of mind for our customers worldwide. As a solutions engineer at Liberty Mutual, you’ll be responsible for guiding the development of system, technical and product standards based on business plans and long-term strategies, while working in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up-and the full backing and comprehensive benefits of a Fortune 100 company.
The GRS Distribution and Underwriting Technology organization is looking for a Solutions Engineer to lead the technical vision for the Risk Proposal and Issuance portfolio. RPI is the organization within the Underwriting Workbench that is responsible for a comprehensive suite of digital products that enables our underwriting business throughout the lifecycle of a policy. Our portfolio is responsible for providing valuable insights to their book of business, and enabling the processing of the quote through proposal, forms management, book, bind, issue and post-issuance transactions mainly surfaced through the iUnderwrite system of engagement.
We encourage you to apply and bring your expertise if you’re a:
- Strategic partner: You take the big picture view, whether you’re supervising architecture migrations or maintaining critical relationships with vendors and business partners
- Motivated mentor: Exercise your technical chops while coaching and collaborating with junior software engineers.
- Systems-level engineer: Working hand-in-hand with your business partners, you’ll develop technical requirements and design robust and flexible product and system architectures
- Forward thinker: Leading by example, you’ll promote a culture of continuous improvement by finding solutions that increase efficiency, accelerate the adoption of new technologies and enhance profitability
Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end solutions that align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and long-term strategy.
- Partner with business, product, architecture, engineering, and delivery teams to solve user problems and translate needs into effective technical solutions.
- Evaluate and recommend modern technologies, platforms, and patterns that improve scalability, resilience, performance, and maintainability.
- Drives AI strategy and enablement by identifying high-value use cases, shaping solution patterns, and partnering across teams to responsibly integrate AI capabilities into business and technology solutions.
- Lead cross-portfolio collaboration to influence solution decisions, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment across multiple business and technology areas.
- Provide technical oversight for high-visibility business initiatives, ensuring solution integrity, delivery readiness, and adherence to strategic direction.
- Participate in architectural decisioning, trade-off analysis, and governance activities to guide solution selection and implementation.
- Create and validate solution estimates, including effort, complexity, dependencies, and risk considerations.
- Support planning activities by breaking down solution scope into deliverable components and identifying key assumptions and constraints.
- Ensure solutions address both immediate user needs and long-term platform and architecture objectives.
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to build shared understanding and decision consensus.
- Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification, automation, and technical optimization across portfolios.
- Contribute to best practices, standards, and patterns that improve solution delivery consistency and quality.
Qualifications
Experience
- Ten years of related software engineering experience
- A comprehensive understanding of agile environments
- Extensive knowledge of contemporary frameworks and emerging technologies
- A history of practicing DevOps and SecOps
- A strong background in business operations and strategies, including knowledge of global business, technology trends and the financial services industry
Skills
- Solid negotiation, facilitation, consensus building and influencing capabilities
- Ability to identify patterns and problems across teams and deliver effective solutions
- Openness and adaptability to respond to fast-moving circumstances
- A design thinking and test-driven development mindset
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, and an aptitude for working in teams
- Knowledge
- Experience developing or architecting cloud-hosted, responsive web applications using Java, HTML5 and CSSS3
- Strong background in code review
- High-level proficiency with client-side JavaScript frameworks, server-side frameworks, and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with event-based System of Engagement architectures and integration with API exposing microservices
- Deep understanding of layered solutions and designs
- Cognizance of security concerns, from access control and authentication to secured SDLC processes
- Understanding of DCI/MDM systems, data ingestion and cloud-scale data sets
Education
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience