Software Development Consultant, Java/Angular/Azure

Purpose

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future. We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities.

About the role

This is for the highest-level technical resource focusing on highly visible, complex, and critical business priorities. Forecasts and establishes plans for defining, delivering, enabling, and supporting significant information technology components into the organization architecture. Sets direction and guides teammates through complex requirements, procedures, and processes to optimize system performance and efficiencies, balancing technical and organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the highest-level technical expert, resolving problems of systems integration, compatibility, performance potentially across multiple platforms; provides feasibility analysis on potential projects.
• Builds and maintains systems based on applications architectures to improve business processes and in alignment/support of critical business strategies.
• Affirms the business and organizational implications of key application technology alternatives for wide-impact initiatives to recommend appropriate strategic action.
• Facilitates continues process improvements within team.
• Determines organizational impact of software maintenance issues and develops overall strategy to address them.
• Integrates activities with business units and collaborates to ensure project costs and schedules are properly estimated and controlled.
• Identifies and defines the Programming standards to the development team.
• Manage, guide, build and groom the dev resources in the team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Eight+ years of software engineering and development, including five years in technical leadership.
• In-depth analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Enthusiastically working in a collaborative setting with existing team members.
• Be able to work independently.
• Significant hands-on experience across multiple platforms/technologies including Java, JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, REST/JSON, Event driven technologies, performance tuning RDBMS.
• Significant experience in large-scale integrated online RDBMSs across multiple hardware and software platforms.
• Significant experience in new computing architectures and implementation of networked computing structures.
• Extensive experience in understanding and implementing industry Web Security standards including SSO, SAML, JWT, OAuth, OWASP etc.
• Two to four years of experience with building applications in Azure.
• One to two years of experience building feature-rich customer facing web applications using Angular and other Javascript frameworks.
• Good understanding of SCRUM/agile methodology.
• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Masters’ Degree preferred.
• Financial Services Industry experience is a plus.

Technology Stack

• Java / Spring Framework/ Spring Boot/ REST/ JSON / Open API
• OpenShift (preferred), ARO, Azure or other Cloud platform
• Angular
• GitHub
• 12 factor principles
• CI/CD – Jenkins
• Monitoring Tools
• Databases – Oracle and cloud native

Pay

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities. The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Benefits

Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
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Critical Skills

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law. Reasonable Accommodations Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.