Full Stack Tech Lead

General Summary

For more than 60 years the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and SAG-Producers Pension Plan (the Plans) have provided health and retirement benefits to thousands of entertainment professionals and their dependents across the globe. The Plans are currently undergoing a major transformation focused on evolving our operations toward a participant-inspired experience.

We are seeking a Technical Project Lead with 8 years of experience in Java EE, Spring Framework, and related technologies. The ideal candidate will have balanced experience (50% front-end and 50% back-end) and preferably exposure to healthcare, pension, or related domains. This role is responsible for designing and developing technical solutions for IT projects, mentoring developers, overseeing technical teams, and ensuring all deliverables meet or exceed customer expectations.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and hands-on leadership throughout all phases of the development lifecycle
• Mentor team members and resolve technical challenges while ensuring alignment with business and project goals
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, architectural principles, and best practices
• Support and advocate for Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD methodologies
• Design and architect complex, secure, scalable, and high-performance software systems
• Develop and document system architectures to ensure consistency and maintainability
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 8 years designing and developing multi-tier enterprise applications using Java EE and Spring
• 5 years developing web and enterprise applications across the full Java technology stack
• 5 years building SOA-based and RESTful services using Java, Spring, Hibernate
• 5 years developing front-end applications using React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Strong expertise in Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• Experience with MariaDB/MySQL, Kafka, ESB/API Gateways, and event-streaming platforms
• Experience performing technical assessments of existing systems
• Experience with testing frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Jasmine, Karma
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Database programming using SQL with MySQL and Oracle
• Ability to convert user stories into technical tasks
• Experience with deployment strategies for distributed and multi-tier applications
• Ability to create UML diagrams and flowcharts using Visio or similar tools
• Pension domain experience is a strong plus
• Experience with BPM and ECM
  
  

Competencies

• Customer Focus – Gains insight into customer needs; identifies opportunities that benefit the customer; builds and delivers solutions that meet customer expectations; establishes and maintains effective customer relationships.
• Decision quality – Makes sound decisions, even in the absence of complete information; relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions; considers all relevant factors and uses appropriate decision-making criteria and principles; recognizes when a quick 80% solution will suffice.
• Ensures accountability – follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same; acts with a clear sense of ownership; takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures; establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results; designs feedback loops into work.
• Communicates effectively – Is effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels; attentively listens to others; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; provides timely and helpful information to others across the organization; encourages the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.
• Instills trust – follows through on commitments; is seen as direct and truthful; keeps confidences; practices what he/she preaches; shows consistency between words and actions.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to translate complex business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Capable of completing projects with minimal supervision
• Strong collaboration skills with a positive, empathetic, and solution-oriented mindset
• Proven experience working in fast-paced Agile/Scrum environments
• Experience managing and collaborating with onshore and offshore teams
• Excellent analytical, critical-thinking, and interpersonal skills
  
  

Physical Requirements

The physical demands listed below are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions. A request for a reasonable accommodation should be made in writing and delivered to HR.

Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.

All employees of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and SAG-Producers Pension Plan are “at will.” This means that both employees and the Plans have the right to terminate employment at any time, with or without advance notice, and with or without cause.

Notice

SAG-AFTRA Health Plans and SAG-Producer Pension Plans provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you are a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with LA county local ordinances.