Position: Mainframe Architect
Location: New Jersey
Job Description:
The Role at a Glance:
Our client’s Annuity IT team is growing, and we are bringing on a Senior Solutions Architect to help with our technical transformation within this organization.
Background Details:
As one of our top clients continues in its technology transformation, Our client’s Annuity IT team has been leading the way. This opportunity for a senior level application architect, will be responsible for providing architectural oversight, governance, and technical leadership for all facets of Application Development for the Annuities IT organization.
Must-haves:
1. 8+ years professional application development experience with 4+ years’ experience architecting, designing, and developing applications
2. Experience with applying software design/development practices, tools, and languages on a diverse set of platforms including mainframe (e.g., CICS, COBOL, DB2) and distributed (e.g., J2EE, EJB, Servlets and JMS, JSF, web services, WebSphere, RAD/Eclipse, UDB and Oracle) platform preferred.
3. Experience with application integration, APIs, and Event-Driven architecture patterns
4. Experience with Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, and automated deployments
5. Ability to interview, facilitate meetings, and document requirements with the customer asking the right questions to drive system requirement and solutioning needs. Ensure technical system requirements are documented, understood, adequately detailed to drive overall solution.
6. Strong analytic, problem-solving, and research skills required, and individual must be willing to challenging the norm to drive innovation and drive great technology solutions.
7. Experience networking across teams to design, develop, and deploy the technology and architecture necessary to deliver quality business solutions. Activities include business case development, solution planning, business process modeling, logical system design, system procedures development, and estimating.
8. Provide input to the definition of functional and non-functional requirements and work with the team to ensure quality objectives are met for both functional and non-functional requirements. Need to possess strong understanding of testing concepts related to functional, non-functional, performance and capacity planning.
9. Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, or related field preferred; however, equivalent professional experience considered
Nice-to-haves:
· AWS Cloud certifications
· Agile, SCRUM and Kanban experience
· Understanding of various Annuities business processes and systems and understanding of existing LFG Annuities application portfolio