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Job Summary:
Veterans Sourcing Group, LLC is seeking a Java Developer to lead the design and development of the Policy Booklet Generation module within a policy administration system. The role involves providing technical leadership, simplifying architecture, and ensuring robust integration with other systems while mentoring a cross-functional development team.
Responsibilities:
• 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 Insurance'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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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.
Preferred:
• 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
Company:
Welcome to the Veterans Souring Group company profile. Veterans Sourcing Group (VSG) is a “Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business – SDVOSB”. Founded in , the company is headquartered in New City, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.