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Transamerica · 5 months ago

Specialist Software Engineering – Actuarial Systems Lead

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$125K/yr - $160K/yr

6+ years exp

Transamerica is a financial services company that has been helping people plan for their financial futures for over a century. The Specialist Software Engineer will focus on designing and developing web and cloud technologies to support the Financial and Actuarial systems, providing technology leadership and guidance in architectural design and development.

Financial ServicesImpact InvestingInsurance

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead analysis and complex architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions; translate architectural guidance into detailed technical design

Lead committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines

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 large team design sessions

Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies

Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts

Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions

Lead web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees

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

Prepare presentations and lead development meetings

Qualification

Core Java.NETCloud servicesDatabase designMicroservicesNoSQL databasesDistributed computingAPI developmentFrontend frameworksAnalytical skillsTechnical communicationProblem-solvingTeamwork

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience

Six years of Core Java or .NET experience

Expertise in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)

Five years of experience and expertise in database design techniques and philosophies (e.g. RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model)

In-depth knowledge of NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB)

Three years of development experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)

Expertise in build and deployment tools - (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax)

Expertise in developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark)

Five years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)

Expertise with Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper)

Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and 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 and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization

Problem-solving and technical communication skills

Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines

Preferred

Master's degree

Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations

Experience with big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture

Experience with data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL

Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)

Knowledge of the financial services industry

Benefits

Pension Plan

401k Match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Disability Insurance

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Employee Discounts

Career Training & Development Opportunities

Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.

Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).

Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars

Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.

Adoption Assistance

Employee Assistance Program

College Coach Program

Back-Up Care Program

PTO for Volunteer Hours

Employee Matching Gifts Program

Employee Resource Groups

Inclusion and Diversity Programs

Employee Recognition Program

Referral Bonus Programs

Company

Transamerica

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Transamerica is a private holding company that provides services for various life insurance companies and investment firms. It is a sub-organization of Aegon.

Founded in 1904

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

5001-10000 employees