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Great American P&C IT Services is currently seeking an Emerging Technology (ET) Engineer to join an evolving ET Organization! This is a rare opportunity to get into a group on the “ground floor” and help shape the way GAI delivers cutting edge technology solutions to our business units. If you have a passion for technology, a desire to stay current with industry trends, then read further – this is the role for you!

The ET Engineer is a mission critical member of the ET organization, responsible for making next generation technology come to life! You will be working as part of a pod structure, iterating over the latest and greatest industry trends, showing value through Proof of Concepts (PoCs), comparative analysis, data science and your creative wisdom. You well help your pod breakdown, sometimes nebulous concepts from features into user stories, producing working software, white papers, market research and data. You will partner closely with the ET Product Owner, Scrum Master and other ET Engineers, quickly demonstrating value and iteratively gathering feedback from key stakeholders. Opportunities that you will execute could be things like AI/ML & Cognitive tech, Computer Vision, Hyperautomation, Smart Contracts, IoT, Chatbots, InsurTech software and much more – the sky is the limit!

The Emerging Technology organization is Great American’s indispensable, future forward technology partner. Delivering next generation value.

The ideal candidate for this position will have the skills and experience necessary to:

• Dig deep into industry trends and emerging technologies, creating, demonstrating the art of what’s possible

• Be endlessly curious, finding new and innovative ways to apply technologies to solve for new and existing business problems.

• Assist in Identification of plans to operationalize, integrate, and scale emerging technologies across the enterprise.

• Design, build, test solutions with the highest degree of quality

• Assess and evaluate the feasibility, applicability, and value for each emerging technology.

• Gather insights and create awareness around the various emerging technologies that we should watch and assess in the marketplace.

• Create well defined user stories as children of a feature with appropriate acceptance criteria

• Create and co-lead Sprint Demo content, preparing delivery for Pilot & Scale

Qualifications:

• Training and/or strong focus on science and/or technology

• Hands on software delivery experience

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Strong relationship and team building, collaboration skills

• Exposure and implementation to supporting AI/ML languages (e.g. Python, R)

• Exposure to databases, distributed vs. Cloud computing

• Exposure to Agile Frameworks

• Understanding of overall software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) and associated methodologies

• Genuine curiosity and passion for all things technology to apply the industry trends into an Enterprise environment.

• Strong communication skills: verbal, written, listening to various levels across the organization

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