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W2- Please no C2C at this time, client cannot offer sponsorship.
Job Summary:
The Solutions Lead role is a high-visibility technical and implementation leadership role to support software solutions that serve our employees, distribution partners and policyholders. You will be ensuring that our key insurance platforms have a roadmap as products, standards that are followed both internally and externally and align features and capabilities with business objectives. You will work directly with key stakeholders internally and a team of contractors and a managed service provider(s). Addressing technical debt is a key component. This role includes designing, writing, coding, testing, and analyzing new and existing software programs and applications. This position will require a close collaboration with external partners ensuring proper 24/7 support, SLA guidelines and roadmap strategy is in place in a proactive approach. Ability to influence is key as you navigate existing and future needs within a set of constraints. Having experience as a development manager will help, as well as working in a managed service environment. This is a role that will lead and influence several technological functions so full stack experience will be helpful.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Leadership 60%
Management of external partners from strategic planning down to delivery and support with a proactive approach.
Defining solution and implementation plans in collaboration with enterprise architecture.
Directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications.
Planning and documenting technical specifications for features or system design.
Liaise with IT Team to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
Generate statistics and write reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process.
Collaboration between Development, QA, DevOps to ensure a SDLC that delivers scalable, performing, quality deliverables to our partners.
Mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determined software quality standards.
Excellent communication is a must as you will be presenting and influencing in all directions internally and externally, with some highly technical colleagues, and external business partners who are more interested in outcomes rather than technical details.
Software Development 15%
Consistently design, write, translate, code, test and monitor software programs and applications according to specifications and the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging.
Project Coordination and Support - 25%
Align external partner deliverables and support with the internal team capacity, velocity and delivery ensuring predictable dates and support for live services.
Collaborate with internal project management team in conceptualizing and development of new software programs and applications.
Assist in the definition, development, and documentation of software s business requirements, objectives, deliverables, and specifications on a project-by-project basis in collaboration with internal users and departments.
Assist in defining software development project plans, including scoping, scheduling, and implementation.
Analyze and assess existing business systems and procedures.
Required / Desired Knowledge, Experiences and Skills:
Requirements:
10+ years experience.
Excellent communication and business acumen skills with the ability to communicate to all levels within the organization.
Strong experience with Spring Boot, JEE, IoC / DI, JPA, Hibernate.
Strong experience with AWS services and infrastructure (AWS SQS, SMS, Lambda, API Gateway / Portal, Route56, EBS, Fargate, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.).
Strong practitioner of Agile methodology applications to SDLC.
Prior experience interviewing end-users for insight on functionality, interface, problems, and/or usability issues.
Experience with JBoss 7.0 or Wildfly, JMS, HornetMQ, RabbitMQ.
Excellent understanding of design patterns, coding methods and best practices.
Hands-on experience developing test cases and test plans.
Understand principles and best practices of RESTful development.
Databases: MSSQL, MySQL/Aurora, NoSQL / DynamoDB.
Leverage JavaScript Frameworks like React.JS, ExtJS.
Knowledge of the CICD, Pipelines, Maven, GIT, versioning, and release management best practices.
Working knowledge of Linux and Windows.
Preferred:
Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
Ability to setup and maintain MongoDB clusters.
Education/Certifications:
Requirements:
High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED) required.
Preferred:
Bachelor s Degree in computer science, information systems or related field preferred.