Senior Software Engineer – API & Cloud Integrations; Java, AWS

Job Description Summary

Enterprise Technology is a global organization within Transamerica that provides dedicated application support and builds the technology infrastructure that powers all of Aegon’s business units. The Senior Software Engineer works with web and cloud technologies, APIs, and third‑party frameworks to build and support application solutions, advises development teams, and mentors junior engineers. The role requires strong problem‑solving skills, a curiosity for new technologies, and the ability to collaborate in agile teams across multiple regions.

• Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies.
• Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead larger team design sessions for system level architecture solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies and mentor other team members in design/coding standards.
• Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
• Support analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end‑to‑end solutions.
• Utilize third‑party software development frameworks, open‑source libraries, and APIs to develop basic application solutions.
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
• Assist with preparing presentations and may lead development meetings.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience.
• Three years of Core Java experience.
• Strong knowledge of coding platforms/frameworks (JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, SOA, Dependency Injection, Core Architecture).
• Two years of experience and proficiency in database design techniques and philosophies (RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model).
• Experience with No
  
  SQL database technologies (MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB).
• Understanding of cloud services (AWS/Azure) utilizing supporting tools (EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs).
• Experience with build and deployment tools (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, NUnit, Ajax).
• Knowledge of developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sage Maker, Spark).
• Two years of experience with integration and service frameworks (API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices).
• Knowledge of Microservices and REST based API development (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, OData, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, Auto Mapper).
• Knowledge with continuous integration/deployment tools (Jenkins, Docker, Containers, Open Shift, Kubernetes, container automation) in a CI/CD pipeline.
• Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax).
• Advanced understanding of software development and research tools.
• Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Technical communication skills.
• Problem‑solving and technical communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines.

• Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations.
• Understanding of big data and real‑time streaming analytics processing architecture.
• Experience with agentic coding platform like Kiro and Copilot.
• Understanding of data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL.
• Technology or platform certifications (AWS, Microsoft).
• Knowledge of the financial services industry.

• Office Environment.
• Work outside of normal business hours may…