DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team and work cross-functionally with developers to coordinate complex project delivery.
• Build, coach, and grow the team, and strive to continually improve efficiency of how things are done.
• Own and review work you're doing for accuracy, quality, performance and completeness.
• Represent your team; its technology and project status in project and leadership meetings
• Work with operations and support teams to ensure high quality production systems.
• Utilize sound judgment and strong technical leadership to drive decisions through consensus and influence change.
• Drive optimal solution design collaborating with architects and cross-functional teams.
• Work with product stakeholders to establish software requirements.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, business and technical analysts, developers, QA, and other IT team members to understand business & technical requirements that drive the analysis, design, and creation of quality technical solutions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• A firm knowledge of Java and related tools such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Maven
• A firm knowledge of C# and .Net Framework.
• Hands on experience using and developing REST APIs using micro services architecture.
• Working knowledge of distributed enterprise architecture.
• Strong understanding of Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Swagger (API documentation).
• Solid understanding of relational databases (such as MS SQL Server, MySQL and Aurora) concepts.
• Scripting experience (preferably Python) is preferred.
• Ability to comprehensively understand data sources, elements and relationships in both business and technical terms.
• Critical thinker with the ability to solve problems independently.
• A desire to build tools and applications to automate work.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong sense of self-motivation, organization and attention to detail; strong analytical skills.
• Communicate quickly and effectively; vertically and horizontally through the organization.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum is desired.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/JOB EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology/Systems, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of relevant experience around design and development of distributed enterprise applications.

OTHER JOB EXPERIENCES DESIRED

• Insurance industry experience a plus, but not required.
• Experience with cloud computing APIs (Amazon Web Services preferred).
• Experience with cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services like Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, ECS, and RDS preferred)
• Interest in emerging platform-as-a-service / distributed application frameworks such as ECS, Spring, ElasticBeanstalk and Docker.
• Prior experience of Microsoft Stack of technologies.