Hybrid Sr. Consultant IT presso Guardian Life

Job Description:

We are seeking Engineering Leader with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. They will work alongside business stakeholders, product owners, and developers to build customer facing apps for different business units.

Responsibilities:

• Execute product architecture decisions with the Solution Architect, ensuring alignment with Product D&T Leader
• Work with Solution Architect and Product Owner to align product-level roadmap and acceptance criteria with strengths and opportunities within the existing architecture
• Collaborate with Solution Architect in identifying existing and new reusable, scalable components to incorporate in the product architecture
• Coach team engineers, QA and production support in best practices, such as conducting regular code reviews and pair programming sessions, to ensure clean, scalable code
• Identify, manage, and resolve team-level dependencies, impediments, and risks
• Monitor and manage technical debt, ensuring it is documented, prioritized, and addressed as part of the team’s backlog
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications,

• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2)

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent

• Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JMS ,Kafka.

• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices

• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture

• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.

• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.

• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.

• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.

Core Technical Skills:

· Java/J2EE Technologies (JSP, Servlets / filters / Interceptors, JNDI, JMS)

· Spring Boot / Micro services

· REST and SOAP Based web services

· IBatis/Hibernate/SQL/Oracle

· REST API, Postman, Swagger, OAuth

· WebSeal

· AWS/ECS

· Jenkins/CI CD

· Junit , Mockito or Easy Mock, TDD

· Git

· Markup Languages like XML and JSON

· Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery a plus

· Front End frameworks like React/NextJs a plus

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday