Senior Cloud Developer

Job Title: IT - Senior Cloud Developer

Location: Remote

Duration: 06 Months Contract to Hire

Job Description:

Serve as a subject matter expert & provide technical leadership while partnering with the Annuities business, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development (Build), and Infrastructure teams on building new AWS hosted API's You will be responsible for collaborating with PSIT and Enterprise Architecture to set the platform strategy direction on the design & development of applications systems while demonstrating an understanding of the broad implications & financial impacts of proposed solutions on operational & infrastructure support.

• Identifies potential application solutions by understanding complex business/technical problems and opportunities.
• You will also work with various teams to implement solutions to achieve Business and IT strategies and goals You will have the opportunity to architect and re-architect applications in an Event-Driven/Service Oriented/Cloud environment.
• Be on the leading edge of the development of applications as Lincoln moves forward in its Cloud Transformation.
• Analyzing, problem-solving, researching and challenging the norm to drive innovation and drive great technology solutions.
• Networking across teams to design, develop, and deploy the technology and architecture necessary to deliver quality business solutions. Activities include business case development, solution planning, business process modeling, logical system design, system procedures development, and estimating.

Must-haves:

• 5-7+ Years' experience in application development that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position (Required)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Associate and/or AWS Certified Developer
• Associate certifications
• Experience with applying software design/development practices, tools, and languages on a diverse set of platforms including distributed (e.g., JEE, EJB, Servlets and JMS, JSF, web services (SOAP and Restful), WebSphere, RAD/Eclipse, UDB and Oracle, Hibernate/Spring Boot Technologies/Java Stream, Micro services) platform preferred.
• Proficient in Core Java concepts including Collections, Exception Handling, Generics, multi-threading, data structures, algorithms, application integration, APls, and Event-Driven architecture patterns.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience with DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, and automated deployment pipelines, security scanning and automated functional testing using Gitlab and other tooling.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, or related field preferred; however, equivalent professional experience considered
• Work experience in end-to-end development and migrating the application to Cloud using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) availing various services of AWS like EC2, S3 & Lambda.

Nice-to-haves:

Agile, SCRUM and Kanban experience

Fundamental knowledge of integrations to mainframe (e.g., CICS, COBOL, DB2).