Company Summary

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. First American maintains and curates the industry’s largest property and ownership dataset with over 7 billion document images. Our major platforms and products include: DataTree®, FraudGuard®, RegsData™, TaxSource™ and ACI®. The First American Data & Analytics division boasts more than 20 patents and remains at the forefront of innovation - leveraging technology and data to deliver best-in-class decisioning solutions. Fueled by our industry-leading data and using our technology and proprietary process, our solutions provide lenders, real estate and title companies with actionable insights - enabling them to make better, increasingly automated, decisions.

Job Summary

Software Engineer will translate functional requirements into system requirements while developing applications for First American, these are typically web based applications developed by adhering to coding standards and guidelines by following a continuous Build-Integrate-Test (Agile) approach. Software Engineer will have Understanding the software development lifecycle and has knowledge of the overall application development space combined with a basic understanding of the business and domain. Role will build basic code assigned modules and features using available stacks and knowledge of programming languages generally under supervision, will apply standard trouble shooting and debugging concepts to achieve speed and efficiency. Software Engineer will understand the Agile manifesto and ceremonies, will design and develop basic DB solutions, work with Configuration Management tools to enforce CM practices and processes. Role is required to adhere to the QA standards defined by the organization and will work with a deep understanding of performance bottlenecks, production infrastructure, interfaces and dependencies of the product.

Competencies:

• Understands and meets stated needs & requirements of the stakeholders, brings contextual nuances in deliverables and work output to truly partner with all concerned stakeholders.
• Monitors own work to ensure delivery within the desired performance standards. Understands the importance of delivery within expected time, budget and quality standards and displays concern in case of deviation.
• Takes initiative to develop own technical / behavioral skills; reflects and learns from experiences of self and others.
• Is receptive to new ideas and different perspectives, Questions routine/ procedures that do not seem efficient and can be improved.
• Adapts to other cultures and unfamiliar situations, thinks on the feet & displays sense of urgency for completion of deliverables.
• Encourages teamwork and collaboration by promoting openness and dialogue, facilitates participation of self and other team members in organizational decisions and motivates other team members and drives pride and positivity in work. Exhibits professionalism in conduct of work and respects others’ views.
• Displays excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills required to interact with colleagues including customer, onshore counterpart, supervisors, team members, business analysts and business teams.

  Technical Skills:

• At least 2.5 years of experience in Handling GIS/Spatial Data In MSSQL/PostGreSQL/FME Software applications

• At least 1 years of experience developing web and desktop GIS applications.

• Strong knowledge in MSSQL (Spatial Queries, procedure, function, CRUD operations, Comparisons, Joining etc…), SQL Spatial, PostGreSQl GIS

• Strong knowledge of GIS tools especially FME/QGIS/GDAL/ESRI tools (ARC Map/ArcGIS)

• Experience developing GIS solutions using C#.NET and mapping SDKs including experience in using Visual Studio.

• Good Knowledge of GIS & spatial data analysis.

• Good Knowledge of Regular Expression and Data Matching.

• Light database administration, performance tuning, ability to quickly identify bottlenecks.

• Good to have Java, Python, Java Script Reactive Programming

• Roles and Responsibilities:

• Will be responsible for implementing ETL design, data on-boarding, transformation, and pipeline processes leading to production of final data files for our customers. Attention to detail, ability to manage multiple parallel tasks and experience in handling production processes for large spatial data sets are distinct advantages.

• Design, code, test and execute applications used to support GIS data

• Light database administration, performance tuning, ability to quickly identify bottlenecks.

• Work effectively in a team to develop high quality GIS solutions

• Develop new GIS web-based applications and maintain and enhance existing.

• Spatial data management and MSSQL

• Code reviews and Peer reviews.

• Coordinate with the Manager / Lead on current programming tasks.

• Collaborate with other developer to design and implement GIS solutions.

• Contribute to technical design documentation.

• Work independently when required.

• Continuously learn and improve skills.

• Attention to detail is essential and all tasks must be carried out to the highest standard.

• Educational Qualification and Experience:

Minimum of 15 years of formal education - Graduate / Post Graduate in Computer Science / Information Technology.

Professional work experience of 3 to 5 years.

FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.