Job Description – Technical Lead

Newark, NJ

$180,000-$190,000 base plus Bonus 

Job Classification:

Technology - Software Development/Quality Engineering

Our Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency. 

The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join the Global Technology organization, you’ll unlock a challenging and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

We are on a journey to transform its technology landscape from older, custom built applications to newer, cutting edge software. As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will be a Tech Lead on a Scrum team. You play a key role in design through implementation, using innovation to drive new solutions and strong Technology skills to deliver business functionality with Quality. If you enjoy the challenge of working in a fast paced, dynamic environment and have a passion for software engineering and technical leadership, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership on a Scrum team and coordinate with other tech leaders across teams
• Collaborate with Architect and drive alignment to Technology strategy in Scrum team
• Develop for APIs, services, and file feed components
• Work on an agile team understanding business needs, performing analysis, and transforming them into testable components
• Employ industry best practices to deliver world-class solutions. Ensure developed solutions remain compliant with all applicable standards
• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines
• Drive code quality through development of automated tests
• Research problems with a strong sense of ownership and develop solutions to address the problems
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and how they can be applied to us
• Enable change, help accelerate innovation
• Demonstrating experience with taking intelligent risks and leveraging a ‘test and learn’ mentality
• Committed to a spirit of authentic partnership – to colleagues both internal and external to the organization
• Conduct component testing and integration testing
• Ensure that software standards, non-functional requirements and quality targets are met

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Excellent problem-solving techniques
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance 
• Clear, professional communications (listening, oral and written communications) 
• Strong relationship building and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated track record as a team player
• Experience working on agile Scrum teams
• A successful candidate will possess 5 years of experience with the following:
• Experience in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology
• Experience implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns
• Experience with Web service technologies such as REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
• Experience in JAVA/J2EE services using Spring Boot, Spring CLI, Node.JS, Maven, Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Experience with relational databases
• Working knowledge of branching techniques and usage of Github, Bitbucket or Subversion required.
• Working knowledge of AWS, ECS, EC2 instances, and AWS Services such as Cloudwatch, CodeDeploy.
• Exposure to monitoring and logging techniques
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases and BPM tools is desired but not required.
• Experience in Product or Business configuration on the FAST platform or other configuration based software desired but not required
• Understanding of Life or Annuities insurance products a plus