Back End Software Engineer

About the position

Highest level technical resource focusing on highly visible, complex and critical business priorities. Forecasts and establishes plans for defining, delivering, enabling and supporting significant information technology components into the organization architecture. Sets direction and guides teammates through complex requirements, procedures, and processes to optimize system performance and efficiencies, balancing technical and organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the highest level technical expert, resolving problems of systems integration, compatibility, performance potentially across multiple platforms; provides feasibility analysis on potential projects.
• Builds and maintains systems based on applications architectures to improve business processes and in alignment/support of critical business strategies.
• Assesses the business and organizational implications of key application technology alternatives for wide-impact initiatives to recommend appropriate strategic action.
• Facilitates continuous process improvements within team.
• Determines organizational impact of software maintenance issues and develops overall strategy to address them.
• Integrates activities with business units and collaborates to ensure project costs and schedules are properly estimated and controlled.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or a directly related field, Master's Degree preferred.
• Eight + years of software engineering and development, including five years in technical leadership.
• Significant experience in large-scale integrated online RDBMSs across multiple hardware and software platforms.
• Significant experience in new computing architectures and implementation of networked computing structures.
• Significant experience across multiple platforms/technologies including mainframe, OO programming experience, including Java and C++.
• Experience developing NT, Unix, and/or Windows based applications, strong component, process and data modeling skills.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan - with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan - employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off - including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time - 40 hours per calendar year