Company Overview
Solera Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLH), is the world's leading provider of software and services to the automobile insurance claims processing industry. The Solera companies leverage each other to develop and deliver the latest technologies, market intelligence and best practices to over 165,000 customers in 70 countries.
Solera’s platforms drive efficiency at every stage of the vehicle lifecycle, providing essential data and services around vehicle history, electronic titling, service and maintenance, collision repair estimation and valuation, fraud detection, parts procurement, vehicle disposal, insurer re-underwriting, and more. Our customers include the world’s leading insurance organizations, as well as over 160,000 repair facilities, dealers and others across the owner lifecycle, who use our solutions to digitally improve their business and the experience for their customers.
Each of Solera's core brands has a strong history of leadership, innovation and industry "firsts." They include: ABZ (in the Netherlands), Audatex (in over 45 countries), AudaExplore (in the U.S.), AUTOonline (in Europe and Latin America), Hollander (in North America), HPI (in the U.K.), Informex (in Belgium), Inpart (in Brazil and Mexico), Market Scan (in the Netherlands) and Sidexa (in France).
Our corporate vision is simple, yet powerful. We will continue to find innovative ways to:
- Provide high-ROI products and services that drive efficiencies in our markets.
- Expand strategically with our customers into new geographies.
- Methodically grow stockholder value through disciplined financial and operational management.
- Provide fulfilling career opportunities for our associates (our greatest assets).
- Offer discernible value to our industry due to our vast store of knowledge, our cutting-edge skills, our system-wide innovative spirit, and our worldwide network of visionary leadership teams.
Our Guiding Principles help our entire organization achieve these organizational goals and are integral to our current and future success.
To support Solera's Mission, we are currently seeking highly motivated candidates interested in the position of:
The mission of the SMR group is to position Solera as the global thought leader and premier provider of
Comprehensive, end-to-end Automotive Service, Maintenance and Mechanical and Collision Repair (SMR) solutions. It is the global Centre of Excellence for Operations, as we leverage our core assets of 40+ years of proprietary and historical Data, deep relationships with OEMs, Insurers, expertise in the aftermarket industry, and the understanding of the leading automotive technologies to create unique, cutting-edge analytics and predictive solutions.
Our solutions will add significant value to our customers: Insurers, OEMs, and vehicle owners, contributing to Solera's target of capturing the global SMR business goals as part of Mission 2020.
In this role, the candidate will report to the Platform Development Manager. He/She will have the following missions:
- Perform system analysis, design, development and implementation of enterprise software and scalable solutions in a high transaction environment. Manage development team and projects.
- Work collaboratively with Customers, Upper Management, Development Managers, Architecture, QA, Operations and other Software Developers in producing quality software products utilizing best practice methodology and technology.
- Use industry best practices to implement challenging and new software and provide support to existing applications.
- Work independently and as a team member.
- Manage development teams on/off-shore or outsourced.
- Technically manage projects from conception to delivery.
- Participate in tool selection and design decisions.
- Collaborate with different development teams located at international locations.
- Create professional technical specifications and documents.
- Work in a team of software engineers and data specialists.
- Introduce software and data improvements, allowing the company to outperform competitors.
- Continuously suggests improvements and optimizations of processes, tools and solutions.
- Competitive basic salary + bonus
- Contract of employment, full time
- Medical care for you and your family
- Life insurance package
- Professional trainings to boost your development
- Career Development opportunities tailored to the individual
- Opportunity to be a part of an evolving and growing business
Must have:
- Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
- Experience working in a team of software engineers and data specialists.
- Experience and ability managing development teams.
- Proven ability to technically manage projects from conception to delivery.
- Participate in tool selection and design decisions.
- Collaboration with different development teams located at international locations.
- Ability to create professional technical specification and documents.
- Experience in various SDLC agile and lean methodologies like Scrum and XP.
- Introduce software and data improvements, allowing the company to outperform competitors.
- Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
- Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
- Analytical thinking.
- Ability to work under time pressure.
- Advanced knowledge on Java Standard edition and Java EE.
- Good understanding of Design patterns.
- SQL and ORM knowledge
- Experience with Oracle databases.
- Experience with version control tools.
- Experience with testing methodologies, tools and libraries (JUnit).
Good to have:
- Experience with Ant & Maven.
- Experience with Jira.
- Experience with Continuous integration servers (Jenkins or others).
- Knowledge on Web services based on CXF, JAXB and REST.
- No SQL Database knowledge.
- Customer focus.
- Team player with a focus on the big picture and overall success of the customers, the SMR team, and Solera.
- Passion and commitment to quality.
- Ability to work in a fast paced team-oriented environment (80's and 20's) where change is constant and needs to be managed.
- Must be performance driven, detail, and results oriented.
- Extremely flexible when it comes to travel.