Staff Software Engineer

You are a driven and motivated problem solver ready to pursue meaningful work. You strive to make an impact every day & not only at work, but in your personal life and community too. If that sounds like you, then you've landed in the right place.

You are a driven and motivated problem solver ready to pursue meaningful work. You strive to make an impact every day & not only at work, but in your personal life and community too. If that sounds like you, then you've landed in the right place.

The Hartfordâs MLC IT Team is seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented and results-driven Staff Software Engineer (Remote) to build and support various invest assignments. He/She will have end-to-end accountabilities across MLC IT that require integrations with the Policy Administration system.  

Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate strong technical leadership skills, excellent partnership with stakeholders and partner teams, willingness to understand existing processes and systems, solid technical acumen, experience in delivering quality technical solutions and ensure the systems are stable, performant, and secure.

Primary responsibilities of the position are the following:

• Responsible for End-to-End solution (designing, building and maintenance of the assets) involving multiple platforms and business solutions within Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring integrations, JPA, and AWS.
• Provide technical leadership in Scrum Teams by enforcing the vision of the application architecture and safeguard the integrity of the application environment, in alliance with architects and other tech leads
• Function as the go-to technical leader for the software applications supported, requiring depth and breadth of knowledge in technologies, applications, integration, interfaces and business domain
• Understand and implement the overall technical vision for projects, programs, or systems, keeping in mind cross-functional impacts, integration across the organization and architecture rationalization
• Proactively address technical issues and risks that could impact schedule and/or budget
• Collaboration with teams to identify opportunities for integration across tools used in the life cycle, including agile, test automation, platform configuration management, and drive efficiencies.
• Mentor team members (including Sourcing Partners) to enforce development guidelines and best practices
• Work closely with stakeholders to design and document automation solutions that align with the business needs and also consistent with the architectural vision
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• High level of independence but is also a team player
• Ability to provide concise, transparent communications about potential risks, mitigations and business impacts in a timely manner.
• Build and implement capabilities for continuous integration and continuous delivery aligned with Enterprise DevOps practices.
• Accountable for team development and pipeline tool decisions.
• Accountable for Software engineering practices e.g. Source code management, branching, issue tracking etc., followed for the product
• Ability to understand technology trade off risks and rewards for the best customer value delivery.
• Takes ownership to drive innovation for effectively leveraging technology to solve the customer problem.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years of experience in application software solution development and execution skills for introducing evolving architecture-based solutions like Cloud, SaaS, and new UI frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies, such as, Java Web Services, JMS, JSP, XML, JSON, JDBC etc.
• 1+ year of experience with containerization and experience in cloud infrastructure environments like AWS and various AWS resources like Lambda, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, Cloud Formation, Route 53, S3, AWS Load Balancing (ALB), SQS, SNS etc.
• 1+ year experience in File Formatting API such as Aspose.