Java Tech Lead 3

Must haves: 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. Delivery Leadership • 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. Modernization & Simplification • 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. System Integration & Standards • Ensure seamless integration with policy admin components such as product configuration and document management. • Ensure seamless integration with The ’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. Stakeholder Collaboration • 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