Senior Lead Application Developer

## Senior Lead Application Developer Apply locations:
Georgia time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 26 Days Agojob requisition :
R-084:022026##
** Join Our Team
** In 2025, USA Today recognized Primerica as a Top Workplace USA for the fifth year in a row, and Newsweek named Primerica one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for the second consecutive year. In 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named Primerica as a Top Workplace for the eleventh consecutive year, and Forbes recognized Primerica as one of America’s Best Employers for Women for the fifth year in a row.

In addition, for the tenth time Primerica has been voted a Best Employer by Gwinnett Magazine. Primerica is a great place to work!## ## About this Position The Senior Lead Developer will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions within a mainframe environment while supporting evolving technological needs. This role focuses primarily on mainframe application development, integration, and operational excellence, with a preference for candidates who also bring exposure to modern development stacks.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working across legacy and contemporary systems, ensuring reliability, security, and continuous improvement.## ## Responsibilities & Qualifications
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* Duties and Responsibilities:

*** Designs, codes, unit tests, debugs, and implements complex solutions across financial systems using approved tools and technologies, including legacy mainframe platforms and modern development stacks (e.g., Python, Pega, distributed services, etc).
* Owns complex coding efforts, technical designs, and technical decision-making for high-risk or high-impact work.
* Produces technical specifications, flow diagrams, and proof-of-concepts to evaluate solution options and technical feasibility.
* Ensures source control, build, and deployment activities follow established standards and approved processes.
* Provides selective technical review for critical or high-risk work items, to ensure compliance with SDLC, secure coding, performance, and financial control standards.
* Serves as a technical escalation point for complex production and delivery issues, conducting root-cause analysis and recommending corrective actions.
* Participates in on-call production support rotations as required, focusing on issues exceeding routine support capabilities.
* Mentors onshore/offshore developers by providing technical guidance and knowledge transfer.
* Partners with the Offshore Liaison to clarify requirements, resolve technical issues, and reinforce standard development and documentation practices.
* Reviews selected deliverables to ensure alignment with approved designs and business requirements
* Acts as a technical authority across all financial systems, maintaining deep knowledge of cross-application behavior, data flows, integrations and processing dependencies.
* Serves as the primary point of consultation for complex functional or technical questions related to financial systems, including impacts across upstream and downstream applications.
* Provides guidance during project planning, issue resolution, audits and modernization efforts by evaluating system-wide implications and risks.
* Maintains accurate technical documentation and operational procedures
* Identifies recurring issues, support trends, and operational inefficiencies through incident analysis, and production metrics.
* Escalates high-risk or aging work with documented impact and recommendations.
* Partners with the Team Leader propose technical, process, or tooling improvements that improve delivery efficiency and reduce operational risk while maintaining system stability.
* Protects the company’s authority to do business by complying with legal and ethical standards, policies and procedures
* Follows all applicable Information Technology Management Policies
* Supports audit and compliance activities by ensuring technical artifacts, change records, and system documentation are complete, accurate, and aligned with SDLC and change‐management requirements.
** Required Education**:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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* Required Skills:

*** Strong hands-on experience with:…