Principal Engineer, Engineering Enablement

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Independently designs and implements Global IT Infrastructure solutions utilizing diverse technologies and processes to deliver new capabilities. Leads multiple, highly complex projects on the deployment or upgrade of RGA technology utilizing internal and external resources across multiple disciplines. Functions as lead and mentor for technical team members on technology strategies and configuration. Requires depth or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field.

Principal Duties:

• Design, implement, and maintain the organization's application systems and/or IT infrastructure.

• Provide an architectural framework for information system development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts.

• Understand user and process requirements and ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables.

• Work closely with developers and engineers to develop road maps for applications, align development plans, and to ensure effective integration among information systems and the IT infrastructure.

• Monitor technological advancements to ensure that solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and company standards as well as emerging business requirements.

• Understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the environment, and evaluate the impact of changes or additions. Analyze systems and perform usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, and meet security requirements.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS)

Work Experience:

• 10+ Years in IT architecture, production support, or related systems experience

Skills & Abilities:

Required:

• Proficiency in multiple tools of the full stack covering frontend frameworks, databases and deployments

• Proficiency in a variety of modern programming languages

• Proficiency in a variety of modern automation tools and frameworks

• Experience with containerization

• Experience with load testing

• Experience with relational/NoSQL

• Experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud provider

• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies

• Advanced knowledge of database and hosting architectures (PostgreSQL, mongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle)

• Highly advanced knowledge of scripting languages (Shell scripting, Python, Power BI, PL/SQL, Perl)

• Expertise monitoring IT systems and integrations.

• Willingness and ability to travel to global locations to support regional initiatives.

Preferred:

• Advanced experience with workload virtualization including application containerization.

• Advanced experience with database and data platform

• Advanced experience with enterprise network management.

• Advanced experience with information security concepts and platforms.

• Advanced experience with application performance monitoring.

• JavaScript/Java/Groovy/Go/C#/.Net/Python

• Docker/Kubernetes

• NodeJS

• PostgrSQL/Mongo/Elastic/Oracle

• Terraform/Ansible

• Shell

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

Compensation Range:

$123,500.00 - $184,050.00 Annual

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