PBT Technical Lead- Jersey City or Whitehouse Station NJ

PBT Technical Lead

Duration: 6 Months (CTH) Location: Whitehouse Station OR Jersey City, NJ - Hybrid

The 'PBT Technical Lead- NextGen' will be responsible to provide technical leadership on end-to-end development & delivery of new insurance products & capabilities enabling new business opportunities and operational efficiencies utilizing DevOps and SAFe Agile on Client.IO Platform and its adoptions with various lines of business.

This role is also responsible for all integrations and interfaces upstream as well as downstream supporting business objectives along with legacy modernization initiatives to Client.IO stack.

This role will require the candidate to technically lead globally distributed development teams to deliver products and services in the most efficient way possible.

This role requires hands-on knowledge of building cloud native applications using open source technologies, strong technical background, design thinking, seamless execution, strong relationship management and effective communication capabilities.

The Sr. PBT NextGen Technical Lead will be accountable for planning, directing and coordinating medium to large scale, moderately complex projects; ensuring that the goals and objectives are accomplished with high quality, within established time frames and meet customer and/or business needs.

The Sr. Technical Lead will design and implement products for continuous delivery of features and capabilities aligned with business priorities.

You will be responsible for the application design and problem solving, and will be accountable for building secure and scalable solutions

You will be hands-on with projects, getting deep into design and code

Mentor Junior Engineers

Lead end-to-end development, implementation and integration of new insurance products, packages utilizing Client.IO Platform.

Partner with Product Manager/Owner, BA, Developers and enterprise teams to define and deliver optimum application and solution architecture to meet current and future underwriting and policy admin platform needs.

Lead high level design, review code and implementation by the development teams.

Communicate regularly in accordance with agreed upon communications plan.

Prepare technical documentation and deliver formal presentations for sprint and system demos.

Leverage agile-based operating model across multiple Scrum teams.

Able to multi-task across different product implementations.

Manage production workloads and act as an SME for L3 issues.

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or another related field.

Overall, 10 years of IT experience.

At least 3-5 year's experience in Insurance domain (P&C) with implementations in new business and renewals business processes.

At least 3 years of cloud native application development using docker, Kubernetes

Experience in Causality & Property lines platform/systems implementation is preferred

Experience in technology stack such as Java, Spring Boot, Camel, Camunda, Drools, XML, CSS, XSLT, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Unqork, Prometheus, Grafana etc.,

Deep, hands-on knowledge of Microservices & API Mgmt., Cloud Platforms such as Microsoft Azure and DevOps process is required.

Good knowledge of Data & Analytics technologies such as Data Lakes, Business Intelligence Tools, Predictive Models, 3rd Party Data.

Experience in development of REST based APIs using Open API specification and/or creating specifications w/swagger

Experience in configuring DevOps continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines

Perform complex troubleshooting of critical problem tickets, resolving defects in existing production software and provide root-cause analysis

Hands-on experience working with code quality and code coverage tools/frameworks

Understanding of how to secure web apps and APIs using OpenID/OAuth2.0 standards.

Experience in caching technologies and search is a plus

Ability to motivate team members and effectively delegate responsibilities to ensure timely delivery.

Excellent written/verbal skills and demonstrated ability to meet commitments under pressure.

Has demonstrated the ability to work well with others

An excellent communicator and collaborator across multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders.

Must be a self-starter, work without supervision.

Ability to take full ownership of work and show initiative as needed.

Strong analytical skills and influence skills to achieve results.

Strong ability to identify, understand and communicate business needs and complex technical concepts in simple, concise and crisp manner to technical and non-technical audiences.

Models company values; demonstrates high integrity; meets commitments.

Demonstrates sense of urgency and accountability; sets priorities and acts on key issues.

Demonstrates bias to be proactive rather than reactive.

Team player mentality; prioritize organizational performance.