Solutions Lead

Qualifications

This role is a Engineer 3 / Solutions Lead Developer.

• RESTful API Development: Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining RESTful APIs, including defining API contracts.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Experienced with event-based systems, particularly Kafka or Rabbit
  
  MQ.
• Containerization: Skilled in developing containerized applications using Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
• UI Development: Proficient in front-end development with modern frameworks, especially Vue.js.
• Data Management: Proficient in SQL for querying, optimizing, and managing data across multiple databases, including DB2, SQL Server, etc.
• Integration with Cloud Services: Experience deploying applications to AWS Cloud Front and understanding cloud architecture for frontend applications;
  Experience in Azure is a plus.
• Code Quality: Strong focus on writing maintainable and test code, following SOLID principles.
• Technology Exploration: Motivated to research and adopt new technologies through diligent investigation.
• Documentation: Capable of writing clear and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Demonstrates a commitment to teamwork and fosters a collaborative work environment among engineers, infrastructure teams, and stakeholders;
  Comfortable with pair programming, peer reviews, and working in cross-functional teams.
• Agile Methodologies: Experienced in Agile environments, including using tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• User Story Creation: Proficient in writing clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria, and use cases that reflect user needs and guide development.
• Adaptability and Flexibility: Willingness to adapt to changing project requirements and priorities, and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment while maintaining focus on delivering quality work.
• Learning Agility: Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies, frameworks, and tools, and apply them effectively in projects.
• Autonomous Working Style: Capability to work independently, especially when requirements are vague, demonstrating initiative and resourcefulness.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex systems.
• Effective Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, share ideas, and document processes.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Promotes a culture that values diverse ideas and opinions, listens courageously, and remains curious.

• Operates as a core team member with other engineers on one of 8 teams within the Agile Scaled Framework within the IS Operation, supporting our Emerging & Strategic Solutions business segment. (See Team Descriptions below)
• Lead the end-to-end development, testing, and integration of modern applications and systems that enhance capabilities for products and services across ESS, aligning with enterprise growth initiatives.
• Facilitate brainstorming sessions to generate innovative solutions, developing high-performance applications, APIs, and data solutions that drive technological advancement.
• Adapt to various roles, whether as an individual contributor, leader, teacher, or mentor, fostering a collaborative and versatile team environment.
• Build a deep understanding of business objectives and challenges within ESS, proactively delivering solutions that meet and exceed expectations.
• Continuously assess and optimize applications, balancing performance and scalability to deliver impactful, sustainable results.
• Contribute to our tech modernization efforts for Institutional Annuity products to enable doubling of sales by 2027 in alignment with our enterprise initiative to generate 8% returns to fuel 8% growth.
• Delivery of 85% of committed story points in an iteration.
• Stories will meet all acceptance criteria.
• The percentage of re-opened bugs due to incomplete or incorrect fixes should be < 5%.
• The number of defects found in production that were previously marked as fixed during testing < 1%
• Measure the percentage of lines, branches, and methods covered by unit tests should be 80-90%.
• Delivered code should be covered by automated integration/interaction/end-to-end tests following our standards.
• Code and documentation should be consistent, clear, and concise and must be understandable, test, and maintainable adhering to our defined standards.
• Actively contribute to Agile team processes, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, fostering a collaborative environment where ideas can be shared freely, and feedback is welcomed for continuous improvement.
• Will be responsible for providing timely and effective technical assistance during off-hours as part of on-call rotation.
• Follow security policies, standards and expectations
• Follow communication expectations and contingency plans
• Leverage communication platforms (Microsoft Teams, Jira, email) to ask questions, raise issues, and share updates
• Escalate blockers with impact assessment immediately.
• Proactive in identifying potential…