Lead Engineer - IT

Group Benefits API Team is responsible for APIs and Integrations supporting Web Applications enabling Guardian’s Group Business. We support our end-to-end Business with APIs for Quote, Policy, Customer, Eligibility and Claims. Group Business intake channels such as Customer-facing portal applications, call center applications, IVR and chatbots are all powered by our APIs and provide unified customer experience.  

Our team is growing, and we are looking for versatile people skilled in Java based technologies, who are driven, who want to make a difference and code with purpose.  

We are passionate about the Customer. We do the right thing, believe people count and go above and beyond for the people we serve.  

You are:  

• An experienced backend Lead Engineer who has experience leading high-performance teams with a track record of delivering quality software with speed to market  

• Highly skilled engineer with strong foundation of Computer Science and Software Development Life cycle concepts  

• An individual who is collaborative and can work across the firm with Enterprise Architects, Business Product Owners, Platform, Security and Production support to enable delivery of a cohesive customer centric product  

You will:  

• Lead an agile team as part of an Agile Release Train  

• Build well-designed, well-engineered, robust, scalable software integration solutions that are Production ready  

• Engineer application integrations using messaging solutions, events, and REST APIs  

• Work closely with the Business Teams and Solution Architecture to ensure alignment with the Product Roadmap and design blueprint  

• Mentor and coach developers and analysts, assign tasks, follow industry standard processes, and perform code reviews  

• Triage end to end system integration issues across various middleware systems and infrastructure  

You have:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field  

• 7+ years of Experience as J2EE Software Engineer  

• Understanding of Agile and SAFE Methodologies     

• Industry experience with implementing Rest APIs, Data Driven Design, Microservices Architecture, Enterprise Integration Patterns and Event Driven Architecture  

• Experience designing user friendly APIs using Open API Swagger Specifications  

• Experience integrating with messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ, IBM MQ  

• Experience with Docker containers and AWS Cloud services S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Redis Cache, Open search.  

• Experience using SQL and NoSQL Databases  

• Apache Camel, Tibco Business Works, MuleSoft or similar EAI framework  

• Experience with Rules engines such as OpenL, Drools or Blaze  

• Experience with version control and CI/CD automation tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins and Maven  

• Experience with API Security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth 2.0, JWT  

• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Zenoss