AWS)

The Hartford•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. Hartford’s Employee Benefits IT Team is seeking a highly motivated, experienced IT professional who is responsible for leading engineering teams to successfully drive the transformation of Employee Benefits application landscape. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, that will be part of an EB IT team partnering with value stream business to drive and achieve outcomes on a multiyear transformational program. Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate strong technical and leadership skills, excellent partnership, proven experience in delivering quality technical solutions as well as setting and executing on a strategic technical vision to ensure the systems are stable, performant, secure and scalable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Math, or any Engineering
10+ years of hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies, such as, Java Web Services, JMS, JSP, XML, JSON, JDBC etc. Along with experience with Web Services (SOAP and Rest) using Java Springboot or Apache Camel.
5+ years software architecture and systems design experience
Infrastructure as Code experience, like CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, etc.
Strong software development knowledge
Strong technical knowledge of AWS relating to application development and certifications are plus.
Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership.
Proven ability to work with cross functional teams and translate requirements between business, project management and technical projects or programs.
This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week
Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.
The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS Flink is a nice to have.

Responsibilities

Develop applications with Java and J2EE technologies, use Micro Services, JMS, XML, JSON, JDBC etc. Along with experience of Web Services (SOAP and Rest) using Java Springboot or Apache Camel.
Identifies, drives and leads in the implementation of standards and best practices on how we deploy applications in AWS.
Designs reusable architectures and services that can be leveraged by agile teams across the program to improve development velocity.
Ability to design and implement new software architecture patterns in Cloud that are scalable, secure and cost efficient, adhering industry standards such as multi region support with fault tolerance and data replication strategies.
Use shift left approach to do security, testing and performance in dev cycle.
Full stack Engineering Mindset Very good experience with Sonar, unit testing frameworks, using copilot (GEN AI tools) for app development, infrastructure development.
Develops Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation templates, YAML files, build specifications, and Python Lambda functions to have a completely automated build and release process for all AWS resource infrastructure and code artifacts.
Highly knowledgeable with hands on experience of Amazon Web Services including but not limited to Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, RDS, DMS, CDC, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Service Catalog.
Working knowledge of software development practices including DevOps and CI/CD tool chains ( GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, K8s etc.)
Implements proactive monitoring and observability to predict and detect abnormal system behaviors, with timely alerts avoiding system impacts.
Mentor junior Cloud and Software Engineers.
Present new ideas to leadership and present on topics to improve the learning of others.
Communicate clearly and professionally both in speech and in writing.