Systems Analyst 3

Sammons Financial Group•West Des Moines, IA

About The Position

Senior Engineer — Core Services We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own and evolve Sammons Financial Group's Core Services platform — a collection of Java Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs that serve as the standardized interface to the Enterprise Information Hub (EIH). You'll design, build, and steward domain-driven data access APIs (Party, Policy, Activity, Arrangement, Accounts, Pending Business) and data persistence services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across all environments. You'll provide technical leadership on complex, cross-domain initiatives, setting patterns that are adopted across teams.

Requirements

Java & Spring Boot: Deep experience building production microservices with Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Spring MVC; strong understanding of REST API design (OpenAPI/Swagger), pagination, filtering, and error handling.
Kubernetes & Containers: Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized services in Kubernetes (AKS preferred); familiarity with Helm charts, KEDA auto-scaling, health probes, namespace strategies, and pod lifecycle management.
API Gateway & Security: Experience with Azure API Management (APIM), OAuth 2.0/JWT authentication (Okta), subscription-based rate limiting, row-level security patterns, and secrets management (HashiCorp Vault).
CI/CD & Automation: Azure DevOps pipelines for build, test, and deployment; environment promotion strategies (DEV → TEST → STAGE → PROD); automated testing gates (unit, integration, contract, load).
Data & Persistence: Strong familiarity with Snowflake (Hybrid Tables, Dynamic Tables, views, RBAC) and/or SQL; understanding of data storage patterns, schema evolution, and data service design for read and write operations.
Performance & Reliability: API SLO management (latency p95 < 500ms, 99.9% availability), caching strategies, connection pooling, circuit breakers, retry/backoff patterns, and DR/BCP planning.
Observability: Application-level monitoring, structured logging, distributed tracing; usage and cost telemetry; alerting and SLO dashboards.
Security: Encryption at rest/in transit (TLS 1.3), tokenization, network policies, private endpoints, secret rotation, SSO/MFA, and audit logging.
College Degree in the field of computer science, information science, management information systems
Minimum 8 years' IT development experience or equivalent
Effective verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate with business partners and other IT staff
Problem solving skills sufficient to perform research and recommend a proposed solution to problems
Able to work on multiple tasks and meet established deadlines
Able to effectively direct and coordinate the work of other team members on a project without having HR management responsibility for them
Knowledge of computer programming languages as required for the system
Criminal background check required.

Nice To Haves

Insurance (preferably life & annuity) background is a plus, including understanding of producer/agent models, policy lifecycle, and regulatory considerations.

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family, including Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA & FSA options, and term life insurance.
Competitive compensation with a performance-based incentive program tied to clear goals and individual and/or company success.
Invest in your future with our 100% company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), plus automatic enrollment in our 401(k).
Work–life balance that means something. Friday afternoons off year-round, generous paid time off, and paid holidays.
Commit to your growth with paid development time, tuition reimbursement, and professional development opportunities across industry, individual, and leadership programs.
Make an impact beyond the workplace through volunteer time off, and our company nonprofit matching gift program, supporting the causes that matter most to you.
An ownership culture that inspires; join a connected, values-driven workplace where employees take accountability, support one another, and are empowered to do their best work—together shaping our future shared success.

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