Software Development Consultant, Java/Angular/Azure — Hartford, CT

Get to Know the Opportunity:

This is for the highest-level technical resource focusing on highly visible, complex, and critical business priorities. Forecasts and establishes plans for defining, delivering, enabling, and supporting significant information technology components into the organization architecture. Sets direction and guides teammates through complex requirements, procedures, and processes to optimize system performance and efficiencies, balancing technical and organizational goals.

Financial domain knowledge is preferred, but more importantly drive to build great software and bring delightful digital experience to our customers. This is an opportunity to immerse you in the latest Java, Angular, Azure and JavaScript frameworks and tools that are relevant to Digital.

The Contributions You’ll Make:

• Serves as the highest-level technical expert, resolving problems of systems integration, compatibility, performance potentially across multiple platforms; provides feasibility analysis on potential projects.
• Builds and maintains systems based on applications architectures to improve business processes and in alignment/support of critical business strategies.
• Assesses the business and organizational implications of key application technology alternatives for wide-impact initiatives to recommend appropriate strategic action.
• Facilitates continues process improvements within team.
• Determines organizational impact of software maintenance issues and develops overall strategy to address them.
• Integrates activities with business units and collaborates to ensure project costs and schedules are properly estimated and controlled.
• Identifies and defines the Programming standards to the development team.
• Manage, guide, build and groom the dev resources in the team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience:

• Eight+ years of software engineering and development, including five years in technical leadership.
• In-depth analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Enthusiastically working in a collaborative setting with existing team members.
• Be able to work independently.
• Significant hands-on experience across multiple platforms/technologies including Java, JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, REST/JSON, Event driven technologies, performance tuning RDBMS.
• Significant experience in large-scale integrated online RDBMSs across multiple hardware and software platforms.
• Significant experience in new computing architectures and implementation of networked computing structures.
• Extensive experience in understanding and implementing industry Web Security standards including SSO, SAML, JWT, OAuth, OWASP etc.
• 2-4 years of experience with building applications in Azure.
• 1-2 years of experience building feature-rich customer facing web applications using Angular and other Javascript frameworks.
• Good understanding of SCRUM/agile methodology.
• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Masters’ Degree preferred.
• Financial Services Industry experience is a plus.

Technology Stack

• Java / Spring Framework/ Spring Boot/ REST/ JSON / Open API
• OpenShift (preferred), ARO, Azure or other Cloud platform
• Angular
• GitHub
• 12 factor principles
• CI/CD – Jenkins
• TDD
• Monitoring Tools
• Databases – Oracle and cloud native

Compensation Pay Disclosure:

$117,880 - $147,350 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

Critical Skills

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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