Tech Lead-- Solution Architect
Solution Architect – Tech Lead
Boston, Full-Time
Enterprise Technology and Experience Inforce Services
Do you want to be part of a team that encourages your growth, supports your ambitions and makes it a priority for you to reach your goals? Is helping people part of who you are? At MassMutual, we help millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection and plan for the future. We do this by building trust with our customers by being knowledgeable problem solvers and prioritize their needs above all else. We Live Mutual.
If this sounds like a fit, we’re looking to hire a Solution Architect to join our Inforce Services team.
Why we need you.
We’re growing and our clients deserve the best. As a solution architect you’ll have an opportunity to drive the design and development of strategic capabilities enabling large scale digital transformation and reduction of legacy technology footprint. In this role, as well as all roles within MassMutual, you will demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to be inclusive, a strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most difficult situations. We also highly value strong communication skills, a passion for learning, leadership traits, resilience and self-awareness.
What success looks like
- Rapid development of new, strategic technology capabilities
- Improved customer experience through deprecation of legacy infrastructure
- A highly-effective and engaged global technology workcell that innovates and produces results
What your days and weeks will include.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership on large scale technology projects
- Lead others by driving the implementation of development activities, both individually and as the technical lead of a small team of developers.
- Work collaboratively with architecture leadership, product owners, and other stakeholders to understand high-level requirements and develop software architecture and design.
- Create and drive the detailed planning, scheduling and execution of development plans to meet business goals and schedules.
- Maintain architectural principals and coding standards across the code and project lifecycles.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues.
- Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools.
- Display courage through creativity and “outside the box” thinking to complex, idiosyncratic technology challenges
The skills that make you a great fit.
- Bachelor's degree
- Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship now, or in the future.
- 8+ years of experience.
- Database experience e.g. MySql, Oracle, NoSQL, ETL/ELT, Data Profiling and data migration Integration experience e.g. FTP, Web, RabbitMQ, REST, SSO etc
- Ability to serve as a lead technologist and architectural advisor directly influencing large strategic technology initiatives via your strong technical leadership.
- Ability to perform as a lead technologist to masterfully assess and design applications, systems solutions, and interfaces for multiple systems.
- Skilled with broad, conceptual understanding of the technology architecture trends and directions coupled with demonstrated technical mastery for technologies, frameworks, and/or languages.
- Ability to influence and set technical direction.
- Skilled at contributing and communicating your expert knowledge of applications/systems and concepts to a broader audience.
- Ability to architect end-to-end solutions across distributed, host and business intelligence environments
- Experience with agile/scrum methodology
- Ability to influence teams to a future state while understanding the need to make practical decisions along the way.
- Strong ability to create a following amongst a technical group.
- Knowledge in experience in JavaScript frameworks such as NodeJS, Knockout, Reactjs, automated testing (i.e. NUnit, Jasmine), test automation tools, and automated DevOps pipelines
- Experience with AWS, Git, JIRA environments
- General insurance and financial systems/process knowledge e.g. Distribution, Underwriting, Proposals, Web, Compensation, Admin, Billing, Policy Docs, Claims, Servicing
Preferred:
- Experience with legacy mainframe systems and environments.
- Experience in a start-up environment.