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## Lead Software EngineerApplylocations: Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Denver, Colorado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 8 Days Agojob requisition id: R20062103**Job Family**IT - Development**About Us**At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.**Who We Are**We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.**What We Do**Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.\* For more information, visit transamerica.com.**Job Description Summary**The Lead Software Engineer utilizes web and cloud technologies, APIs, and third-party software development frameworks to build and support application solutions. Provides lead support for design and development to one or more application development teams, and leads a team of local or outsourced software engineers to build and support business application solutions.**Job Description****Responsibilities*** Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.* Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies.* Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions for system level architecture solutions.* Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies; mentor other team members in design/coding standards.* Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.* Lead analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions.* Participate on committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines.* Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions.* Lead web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees.* Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.* Prepare presentations and lead development meetings.**Qualifications*** Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience* Five years of Core Java* Expertise in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)* Three years of experience and expertise in database design techniques and philosophies (e.g. RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model)* Understanding of NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB)* Four year of development experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS) utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)* Experience with build and deployment tools - (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax)* Experience in AI SDLC and AWS AI services* Three years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)* Experience with Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, Swagger, Odata, AutoMapper)* Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a Ci/CD pipeline* Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (Angular, React, Vue.js, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS)* Advanced understanding of software development and research tools* Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus* Ability to work as part of a team and independently* Analytical and problem-solving skills* Technical communication skills* Problem-solving and technical communication skills* Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines**Preferred Qualifications*** Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations* Understanding data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL.* Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS)* Knowledge of the financial services industry. Insurance knowledge will be preferred.**Working Conditions*** Office Environment* Work outside of normal business hours may be required* Occasional Travel <10%*This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.* **Compensation**The Salary for this position generally ranges between $111,000- $140,000 annually. ***Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including***qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, PA; Cedar Rapids, IA; Denver, CO). Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position. #J-18808-Ljbffr