Platform Engineer III

Aflac, Incorporated

4d•$95,000 - $145,000

About The Position

The Platform Engineer III supports the architectural design and maintenance of Aflac’s SAP platform environment, including COTS, SaaS, and ERP components distributed across systems. The role ensures the platform meets organizational policies, procedures, and security standards; plans software upgrades, patching, and plugin installations; monitors performance; resolves problems; and manages component capacity. It also designs, tests, develops, configures, and maintains integrations and platform applications to meet company requirements, following platform security and coding standards for resilience, data, and security. The engineer reviews business requirements to determine appropriate solutions, including configuration, coding, and debugging; works with cross-functional departments to communicate status and technical proposals; and deploys and configures applications for company needs. The role provides architectural support, leads medium projects, and guides and mentors junior team members. This position may be hybrid or remote depending on the employee’s distance from Aflac offices in Columbus, Georgia, or Columbia, South Carolina. Hybrid employees within 50 miles of either office are expected to work onsite at least 60% of the work week; employees farther away work remotely from within the continental United States, with occasional office visits possible based on business need.

Requirements

SAP ABAP programming experience.
SAP FS-RI experience.
SAP FS-CD experience.
Advanced experience with software configuration and modern programming languages.
Ability to troubleshoot challenging problems across the platform and its hardware and software components.
Proven experience with Scrum and DevOps methodologies.
Ability to guide and mentor junior team members.
Ability to lead medium projects.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or other related experience.
At least 4 years of experience in SAP release practices and environments, or other related experience.
An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Certification related to the platforms supported.

Responsibilities

Provide support for architectural design and maintenance of the SAP platform environment, including COTS, SaaS, and ERP components.
Implement, audit, and adhere to policies, procedures, and security standards to ensure compliance with organizational requirements.
Plan software upgrades, patching, and plugin installations according to established policies and procedures.
Monitor platform performance, resolve problems, and manage component capacity issues.
Design, test, develop, configure, and maintain integrations to platform applications.
Follow platform security and coding standards for resilience, data, and security.
Review business requirements and deploy suitable solutions, including configuring, coding, and debugging.
Work with cross-functional departments to communicate status and technical proposals.
Deploy and configure platform applications to meet company needs.
Design, configure or customize, test, and maintain platform applications to meet company requirements.
Lead medium projects and guide and mentor junior team members.
Perform other duties as required.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Prescription drug coverage.
Health care flexible spending account.
Dependent care flexible spending account.
Aflac supplemental Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity policies offered at no cost to employees.
401(k) plans.
Annual bonuses.
Opportunity to purchase company stock.
11 paid holidays annually.
Up to 20 days of PTO to be used for any reason.
State-mandated sick leave, if eligible.
Other leaves of absence, if eligible, including adoption and parental leave.