Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft D365

Senior Software Engineer

• Microsoft Dynamics 365

Individual Markets Business Technology Services at Guardian is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for maintaining Microsoft D365 F&O platform for our Agency Accounting.

This position will play a key role in delivering integrated solutions and services that meet business initiatives, accounting activities, process improvements, and strategic objectives, by translating business requirements into technical system requirements for development by third party vendor.

This role will serve as a point of contact for production support, D365 configurations, and troubleshooting which will require strong problem-solving skills, managing root cause analysis and issue resolution.

You Will:

• You will be responsible for serving as an intermediary between Guardian and our Agency Accounting Third-Party Vendor.

• You will manage the D365 F&O Sandbox & Production environments as pure SaaS platform and facilitate all development work through a Third-Party Vendor.

• You will work with business owners to analyze, define, and translate business requirements into technical specifications and user stories. Requirements could include but not limited to:

• Data Mapping

• Data configuration

• UI/Business configurations (Screen/Workflows)

• Product mapping/configurations

• Business & System rules

• You will partner with technical teams on projects to design and implement workflows, reports, customizations, extensions, integrations, and data conversions with D365 Finance.

• Participating and documenting design sessions with clients to ensure business process requirements translate into technical requirements, including user stories, use cases, design specifications, business process, data flows and acceptance criteria.

• Perform D365 administrative tasks and set up (configurations) for users, security, email, licenses, batches, and active directory.

• Provide in-depth and sophisticated analyses with interpretive thinking to define problems, develop innovative solutions and influence strategic functional decisions

• You will identify project tasks required to support a successful implementation, including performing impact analysis, verbally communicating complex issues, validating production readiness, and communicating implementation statuses.

• Provide technical support with incident response, problem resolution, disaster recovery and continuity of operations events.

• Provide guidance to project team members on technical aspects of D365 Finance.

• You will provide leadership in technical problem solving by applying insight derived from a highly developed skill and knowledge base and coordinate impacts and dependencies across application teams.

• You will perform Unit testing as needed

• You will proactively find opportunities for technology to improve business processes

You Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in

• Computer Science, Information technology, Management Information Systems, Finance, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in the Microsoft eco-system with a combination of 2-4 D365 F&O or AX 2012 R2, R3 full lifecycle implementations in Finance, preferred

• Experience with the following modules

• Accounts payable, General ledger, Cash and bank management, Accounts receivable, Organization administration, System administration, Data import export framework, recommended

• 2+ years of experience in Life insurance industry preferably in Accounting space.

• In-depth knowledge of software development lifecycles including Agile development and testing.

• Experience with AOT development workspace.

• SQL Server knowledge to perform queries.

• Knowledge of MS Life Cycle Services (LCS) and Dynamics F&O release management protocols and procedures, preferred.

• Understanding of Microsoft best practices for environment configuration and code implementation.

• Understands software development lifecycle methodology (SDLC)

• Experience with SAFe Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodology

• Must be able to think strategically and evaluate short-, medium-, and long-term options

• Excellent written and verbal communications, including presentation creation and delivery, organization, analytical, planning skills.

• Excellent team collaboration skills, with the ability to build consensus, influencing across all levels in the organization, to include experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes within the Individual Markets 'arena', multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment.

• Experience with Management reporter, a 3rd Party reporting tool is an added advantage

• Solid understanding of MS project, MS Office Suite, and Visio is a plus

• Ability to travel up to 10%

Location & Travel:

• Hybrid Remote

• 2 Days a week at a Guardian location in Holmdel, NJ, Bethlehem, PA or New York, New York.

Salary Range

$76,050.00 - $124,935.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you'll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian's Purpose - to inspire well-being - we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.

Health Care

• Choice of [high deductible/copay] medical plans* with prescription drugs, including coverage for fertility and transgender inclusive benefits

• Dental plan

• Vision plan

• Health care accounts - flexible spending, health reimbursement, and health savings accounts

• Critical illness insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

• Company-paid Life and Disability insurance plus voluntary supplemental coverage

• Accident insurance

Retirement and Financial

• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match, plus an annual age/service-based Company contribution and an annual profit-sharing contribution, if applicable

• Complimentary 1:1 financial guidance with a licensed Fidelity representative

Time Off and Remote Work

• Flexible work arrangements (part in-person/part remote)

• Unlimited paid time off for most roles plus time off for volunteering, jury duty, voting, and bereavement

• Personal holidays for colleagues to use in recognition of religious, cultural, or civic days

• Paid parental leave and paid family and medical leave policies

Emotional Well-being and Work-Life

• Emotional well-being, mental health, and work/life resources powered by Spring Health

• Wellness programs, including fitness program and equipment reimbursement

• Child, adult, and elder back-up care support through Bright Horizons

• Adoption assistance

• College planning

• Tuition reimbursement

• Student loan assistance

• Commuter benefits in select metropolitan areas

Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact applicant_accommodation@glic.com.