Job ID: H12989 - Java Technical Lead
Must be Hybrid in Hartford, CT, Charlotte, NC or Columbus, OH
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 6 month renewable contract and needs to meet Client full-time conversion policies. Those dependent on a work permit sponsor now or anytime in the future (ie H1B, OPT, CPT, etc) do not meet Client requirements for this opening.
Top 3 Must Haves:
- Java (8+ years): enterprise back-end development, service design, code quality and reviews.
- Technical Design & Data Modeling (5+ years): simplify complex legacy models; design extensible, product-agnostic data structures.
- AWS & Cloud-Native Engineering (3 5+ years): cloud services, security/IAM, CI/CD, observability; building scalable APIs/microservices.
Key Responsibilities
Technical & Design Leadership
- Provide technical oversight, technical designs and documentation, and hands-on engineering for the Policy Booklet Generation module within the broader policy administration platform.
- Assess and simplify the current application architecture, identifying areas of redundancy, inefficiency, and technical debt.
- Develop technical designs at application level for a scalable, modular, and maintainable Policy Document Management module that is aligned with Solution Architecture Conceptual designs and Enterprise Architecture standards & patterns.
- Design an extensible data model and framework capable of supporting multiple employee benefits product types.
- Define integration patterns, API specifications, and interface contracts with upstream/downstream systems.
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional development team, providing guidance on engineering best practices and coding standards.
- Drive technical decision-making across the development lifecycle, ensuring solutions meet performance, reliability, and security requirements.
- Oversee the implementation of new software components and refactoring of legacy components.
- Conduct code reviews and architecture reviews.
- Partner with product managers, business analysts, solution architects and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs.
- Analyze existing data structures, content translation rules engines, and document templates to propose an optimized, simplified design.
- Introduce approaches for modern document configuration, versioning, composition, and rendering.
- Lead efforts to decouple content, rules, and formatting for easier maintenance.
- Implement strategies for centralizing content and metadata.
- Ensure seamless integration with policy admin components such as product configuration and document management.
- Ensure seamless integration with The Hartford s enterprise document generation engine (PDA) and document repository (Documentum).
- Define and enforce standards for data governance, metadata structures, and API interactions.
- Promote modernization technologies such as microservices, micro-frontends, cloud deployment models, and automation pipelines.
- Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and engineering leadership to align on technical strategy.
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and roadmaps to leadership.
- Partner with QA and DevOps to ensure robust testing and deployment processes.
- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ in a technical lead or architect role.
- Experience designing large-scale enterprise applications, preferably in insurance or financial services.
- Expertise in data modeling, architectural simplification, and legacy modernization.
- Hands-on experience with API development, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
- Experience with document generation frameworks and content management systems.
- Strong communication and leadership capabilities.
- Experience with policy administration systems or document generation modules.
- Knowledge of rules engines, metadata-driven architectures, or dynamic content assembly.
- Familiarity with domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of employee benefits product structures and regulatory requirements.
- Java Certifications such as:
- Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 11 Developer or Java SE 17 Developer
- AWS Certifications such as:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- Architectural or engineering certifications, such as:
- TOGAF 9/10 Certification
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