Consultant - IT

Job Description

Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management • Understand the project's Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution. Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting • Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s). • Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project. • Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues. • During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality. • Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly. • Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status. • Participate in project review meetings. • Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules 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 peopleskilled 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 Senior 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 12+ 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 Location: This position can be based in any of the following locations: Gurgaon For internal use only: R000106710