About Us

Colonial Surety Company is an insurance company licensed for business in every state, listed by the U.S. Treasury as an approved surety, and rated “A Excellent” by A.M. Best Company. Our distinct, digital product platform has recently expanded to include important liability coverages for small and mid-size businesses.

Founded in 1930, we use our experience—plus technology—to give busy people and businesses easy, affordable and digital access to a growing portfolio of bond and insurance products. We have an ambitious vision for impact and growth—and invite a diversity of motivated achievers to come, learn, work, create, grow—and succeed—with Colonial.

Position Summary

Our SQL Engineer will jump right into the action, working with data to solve business challenges, while building and maintaining the infrastructure to continuously improve processes and answer emerging questions. In addition to statistical expertise, our curious and creative Data Engineer will have great communication skills—and a passion for making data understandable and actionable to all business units, propelling ambitious growth.

Please note: All work is conducted on-site in our corporate office. This is not a remote position. Our personnel policy requires all staff to wear business attire, to include wearing suite and tie and clean shaven for males. Females must dress in business attire, to include suits business dresses, etc. Our work hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm. Please only apply if you can meet these position requirements. No exceptions will be made to this policy at this time.

Job Functions, Essential Duties, And Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain new and existing applications, systems, custom reports, and database structures.
• Participate in requirements analysis, along with business analysts, and business users.
• Design and develop various modules, and work with other developers and other IT staff as required.
• Develop and design database schema, SQL queries and turning, stored procedures, and SSIS packages.
• Develop, create, and support Data Factories pipelines, data flows, data frameworks configurations, and code repositories.
• Work with a data team to provide support with data optimization.
• Production and End User Support Activities.
• Assist and support other programmers in development procedures, techniques and coding assignments.
• Create and update System documentation and Design specifications.
• Apply industry software development standards and best practices.
• Research and recommend new and existing technologies to meet business needs, including creating prototypes, design documents, and solution designs.
• Estimate effort involved in completing various development tasks.
• Report activities and progress to the management on a weekly basis.

Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in designing/developing software applications (full stack);
• Minimum 4 years working experience in Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS
• Proficiency in SQL Database development, including performance tuning
• Experience in working with web development technologies (MVC, MVVM, MVP, RestAPI, SOAP, XML)
• Experience in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with knowledge of Agile and / or Waterfall methodology
• Good knowledge of Object Oriented design
• Experience in developing/deploying web applications
• Knowledge of system security and service oriented architecture
• Ability to work with business analysts and business users
• Knowledge in data warehouse, ETL, data modeling
• Working knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Java programming is a plus
• Microsoft Access (development and/or administration) is a plus

Personal Skills Needed to be Successful at Colonial Surety Company

• Comfort with - and enthusiasm for - working in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to organize and prioritize work while accomplishing goals under tight time constraints
• Ability to communicate professionally
  
• Strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building, customer service, empathy, and resilience
• Ambitious, proactive, and detail-oriented
• Ability to learn quickly and retain information
• Willingness to work hard, maintain a positive attitude, and overcome challenges
• Solution-oriented, problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritize according to current and changing business goals
• Conviction, integrity, honesty, and maturity in all situations
• Positive approach and enthusiasm to learn, retain and grow professional skill sets to take on
  more responsibility and demonstrate value with the intent to gain higher levels of opportunity
  within the business structure

Compensation and Benefits

Colonial Surety offers:

• A competitive starting salary based on experience, with achievement based opportunities for annual bonuses and increases.
• Opportunities for professional advancement. We value big thinking tied to practical, collaborative execution in a structured and growth oriented company.
• Ongoing mentoring from senior staff and periodic opportunities to attend industry seminars and workshops.
• Starting on the first day of hire, all Colonial employees can begin participating in our excellent Major Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance plans.
• A modern, professional, suburban office space, concentrated work day (8:30-5:30) and business-attire environment.
• We enjoy a professional, collegial and positive work atmosphere, sharing camaraderie and rooting for individual and collective success.