Software Development Consultant (Java, APIs/Springboot/Oracle)

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Software Development Consultant (Java/APIs/Springboot/Oracle)

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced expert-level developer to provide leadership for development teams and co-ordinate with business partners, product owners and other technology stakeholders and ensure successful execution of software projects, meeting client expectations and driving innovation in engineering practices for Voya Financial’ Workplace Solutions Technology team. This role is responsible for driving and leveraging technology/platforms/engineering to enable the organization's future-state business capabilities, which can enable business processes or practices that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

Profile Description:

• Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives.
• Creates solution options adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap and minimizing technical debt.
• Designs and Develops solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains like customer engagement, data insights, customer servicing, and financial transactions.
• Responsible for all aspects of API design from product-centric thinking including scalability, reliability, and monitoring.
• Hands-on development of critical components and proof-of-concepts.
• Ensure security related to non-functional requirements are factored in solutions for APIs, applications, platforms, and databases
• Ensure adherence to regulatory and data privacy requirements/guidelines for systems and data.
• Monitoring the project progress and identifying potential risks.
• Improves overall design by tracking emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements.
• Continue to enhance business and technology domain knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
• Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of initiative, independent judgment and building the consensus with multiple teams.
• Monitors the Development progress and identifying potential risks, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
• Knowledge of client-server networking and database management concepts, Web server, application server administration and web applications deployment experience.
• Experience on middleware / application server and other relevant technologies including Oracle / Microsoft, JBoss, JRun, and Tomcat.
• Hands-on experience in Java Programing, Spring Boot framework, Restful APIs and data structures.
• Participate in process analysis, design, implementations and Post implementation activities.
• Acts as a technical SME, prepares technical specifications and design specifications. 

Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or information systems; master’s degree a plus
• 8+ years of software engineering and development, including minimum five in a tech lead role
• 5+ years’ experience with web services/micro-services/API standards (like Open API specification) and related technologies (HTTP(s), REST, JSON, WS*) with leverage API frameworks –Java, SpringBoot, GraphQL, and Node JS; batch/ETL and stre