The Lead Software Engineer utilizes web and cloud technologies, APIs, and third-party software development frameworks to build and support application solutions. Provides lead support for design and development to one or more application development teams and leads a team of local or outsourced software engineers to build and support business application solutions. This role will be responsible for Commission and Distribution Support System technologies for our life insurance and annuities businesses and partners.

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
  • Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies.
  • Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions for system level architecture solutions.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies; mentor other team members in design/coding standards. 
  • Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
  • Lead analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions.
  • Participate on committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines.
  • Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions.
  • Lead web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees.
  • Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
  • Prepare presentations and lead development meetings.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Commissioning and Distributed Support System technologies
  • Prior experience in the life insurance and annuities or financial services domains
  • Knowledge of on-prem, cloud-based, and mainframe systems
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience
  • Five years of Core Java or .NET experience
  • Expertise in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)
  • Three years of experience and expertise in database design techniques and philosophies (e.g. RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model)
  • Understanding of NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB)
  • One year of development experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)
  • Experience with build and deployment tools - (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax)
  • Experience in developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark)
  • Three years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)
  • Experience with Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework,  IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper)
  • Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a Ci/CD pipeline
  • Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax)
  • Advanced understanding of software development and research tools
  • Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
  • Ability to work as part of a team and independently
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Technical communication skills
  • Problem-solving and technical communication skills
  • Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines
  • Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
  • Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies
  • Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions for system level architecture solutions
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies; mentor other team members in design/coding standards
  • Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
  • Lead analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions
  • Participate on committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines
  • Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions
  • Lead web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees
  • Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables
  • Prepare presentations

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with PPlus (Performance Plus)
  • Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
  • Understanding of big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture
  • Understanding of data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL.
  • Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry

Compensation

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations.**

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $100,000 - $132,000 annually. This range is an estimate, based on potential qualifications and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Working Conditions

  • Office environment
  • Work outside of normal business hours may be required
  • Moderate travel

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