Sr. Software Engineer You have a clear vision of where your career can go. And we have the leadership to help you get there. At CNA, we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important, ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential. Essential Duties & Responsibilities Evaluate complex client area requirements and processes, and design or prepare application system specifications. Develop, test and implement efficient and cost effective application solutions, including issue resolution and on-going system maintenance. Lead the integration of vendor applications and consulting resources with existing applications and resources. Work as a technical consultant to programming staff and business units to mentor staff in all phases of program development, testing and implementation. Participate in instructing, directing, and checking the design or application work of others. Coordinate activities within the client area and other IT areas (e.g., infrastructure, testing, and solutions). Research and evaluate new, alternative solutions and architectures, and recommend the most efficient and cost effective solution for systems design, including estimating costs as necessary. Act as a liaison between business, vendor teams, product owners and applications areas, ensuring adherence to requirements and user acceptance criteria. Build new features, and perform customizations, integrations and configurations on Guidewire products like Claim Center, Policy Center, Integration, and Jutro by using Gosu programming language. Develop and maintain reusable components and plugins in Guidewire, Spring and Spring boot applications. Utilize frontend frameworks like React.JS and Guidewire Jutro Development Platform. Perform Guidewire integrations with cloud services AWS (S3 and EC2) or GCP (pub/sub and buckets) for infrastructure management. Up to 80% telecommuting permitted. Reporting Relationship Typically Director or above Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in computer science or related and 5 (five) years of experience as a Software developer, software engineer, technical lead, programmer, analyst or related; OR, in the alternative, 7 (seven) years of experience as a Software developer, software engineer, technical lead, programmer, analyst or related. Must have some work experience with each of the following: 1.) Build new features, and perform customizations, integrations and configurations on Guidewire products like Claim Center, Policy Center, Integration, and Jutro by using Gosu programming language; 2.) Develop and maintain reusable components and plugins in Guidewire, Spring and Spring boot applications; 3.) Utilize frontend frameworks like React.JS and Guidewire Jutro Development Platform; and 4.) Perform Guidewire integrations with cloud services AWS (S3 and EC2) or GCP (pub/sub and buckets) for infrastructure management. Up to 80% telecommuting is allowed. Primary Location United States Illinois Chicago Organization IT Mon-Fri., 8:30am 4:45pm, 37.5 hours/week, $148,949 to $161,507 per year, overtime exempt. This position qualifies for CNA's employee referral policy program. CNA offers a standard benefits package. See a full list of benefits here: https://www.cna.com/careers/benefits. Submit cover letter and resume at www.cna.com CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact leaveadministration@cna.com.