Careers

What’s the Role?

As part of Loggerhead’s Information Technology (IT) team, the Project Manager will be responsible for driving projects from concept to completion. You will play a critical role in submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing and executing effective project communication plans. Your ability to lead project teams, manage project risks, and deliver high-quality results will be key to your success.

The goal of the Project Manager is to ensure every program assigned to the team will be delivered successfully and add the highest possible value to the organization.

A Day in the Life could include:

• Develop and implement project management tools and templates to improve and enhance the project life cycle
• Analyze development, testing, and release processes and continually improve their efficiency and effectiveness
• Organize and lead project meetings to facilitate goal setting and review, progress and status reporting, communication, resolve blockers, and general project planning
• Sets goals with project team members and gain commitment to milestones and deliverables, based on time estimates
• Engage with stakeholders to understand project needs and goals, ensuring clear and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assess project risks and issues, providing solutions to keep projects on course and aligned with objectives.
• Conduct post-project evaluations to identify successful and unsuccessful elements, using insights to improve future projects.
• Ensure that business objectives and key success metrics are being met
• Gather project metrics in order to create predictable, reliable, and repeatable development and release practices
• Partner with compliance to coordinate and integrate project activities and division-requested enhancements according to the applicable corporate and regulatory standards
• Identify requirements for web-based and back-office system projects maintained internally or by external vendors
• Demonstrated ability to plan and track project schedules and delivering projects on time and on budget
• Experience successfully communicating across a variety of audiences
• Able to successfully perform both independently and by motivating a project team
• Familiarity using Agile, Hybrid and Predictive project methodologies
• Experience with web applications and customizable and configurable applications
• Basic understanding of programming languages and concepts

What You’ll Need to be a Top Candidate:

Skills

• Excellent communication and leadership skills; extremely organized and able to coordinate multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Have a positive attitude and be a self-starter willing to work independently and learn.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment working on multiple projects concurrently.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to delivering high-quality results. Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
• Excellent leadership, mentorship, and relationship building skills.
• Advanced knowledge of all aspects of project management.
• Sound understanding of Agile methodology and business analysis.
• Proven leadership and human relations skills.
• Strong documentation and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in project management and execution experience delivering complex work efforts working with Waterfall and Agile methodologies Stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Advance understanding of risk management policies and procedures.
• Proven experience as a project manager, IT project manager, or ERP project manager.
• Comprehensive knowledge of program management methodology and techniques; program performance evaluation and change management principles.
• Extensive experience developing, maintaining and reporting on large cost project/program budgets.
• Strong business acumen and/or demonstrated learning agility to quickly increase business expertise.
• You have a passion for problem-solving, experience with technical software products and compliance.
• P&C Insurance industry experience.
• Ten years of experience in project and/or program management or related experience.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) and/or PMI-ACP (Project Management Institute – Agile Certified Practitioner) designations preferred.
• Insurance designations preferred.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in business, management, computer science, or insurance or equivalent relevant experience

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment with option to flexibly split time working remotely and at corporate headquarters located in Tampa, FL.
• Required to work flexible hours and/or weekends.

Travel: May be required to travel to other domestic locations (primarily in Florida) up to 10% of the time.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be the principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of job duties.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• STD/LTD
• Life Insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Referral Program
• Tuition Reimbursement

What’s is the Role? 

As part of Loggerhead’s Information Technology (IT) team, the Java Developer will be involved in full system development life cycle (SDLC) and is responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting enterprise web applications.  Handles complex problems independently and demonstrates analytical thinking.   Can make judgements and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of data.

We are looking for full stack Java Developer to implement modern systems, processes, and products which enhance business and customer-facing platforms and services.

A Day in the Life could include:

• Create and enhance Java Spring Boot microservices running on Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Participate in writing robust code, documentation, unit and integration tests.
• Use Azure DevOps practices and tools to increase organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity.
• Work with various Business Analysts and Architect to identify and document technical requirements.
• Write and/or review system specifications, including output requirements and flow charts.
• Ensure proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and schedule slippage.
• Remain current with new technologies.

What You’ll Need to be a Top Candidate:

Requirements:

• 7+ years of Java development experience producing business critical applications, preferably within the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry.
• 5+ years of microservice development experience using Java, and Spring Frameworks.
• Expertise in Java. Prefer experience with multiple object-oriented languages. Well versed with design principles and coding best practices.
• Experience building, deploying and supporting containerized applications.
• Experience with NoSQL datastores such as Azure CosmosDB or MongoDB in addition to relational databases such as MS SQL.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frontend frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
• Proficient with CI/CD practices and Production deployment leveraging GIT and DevOps pipelines and repositories.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming APIs with various architectures such as RESTful, Webhook, or GraphQL.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization to protect APIs.
• Experience with build tools like Maven or Gradle.
• Experience with automated unit test (i.e. Junit, Mockito, MockMVC) and integration tests.
• Experience developing API documentation with tools such as Swagger.
• Well versed with IntelliJ and Visual Studio.

Skills:

• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with professionals from a range of technical and non-technical backgrounds.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal skill.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and Agile development environment.
• Enthusiastic, disciplined, organized, and self-motivated.
• Good team player 

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related discipline or 7 years of related work experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Market Competitive Salary.
• Comprehensive benefits package including company paid time off, health benefits, and 401k plan with company contribution.

Work Conditions

• Hybrid work environment with option that splits time working remotely and at corporate headquarters located in Tampa, FL.
• Required to work flexible hours and/or weekends.