Java Tech Lead 3

Location: Hartford CT 06155 (Hybrid)

Duration: 06 Months

Pay Rate: $61.00 - $71.00/Hour on W2

Roles & Responsibilities:

Technical Lead to lead the design and development of the Policy Booklet Generation module within a policy administration system. Responsible for reviewing and simplifying an overly complex architecture streamlining and extending the data model to support multiple employee benefits products defining integration patterns and APIs and providing hands-on technical leadership (design reviews code reviews mentoring) through delivery.

Technical & Design Leadership
Provide technical oversight technical designs and documentation and hands-on engineering for the Policy Booklet Generation module within the broader policy administration platform.
Assess and simplify the current application architecture identifying areas of redundancy inefficiency and technical debt.
Develop technical designs at application level for a scalable modular and maintainable Policy Document Management module that is aligned with Solution Architecture Conceptual designs and Enterprise Architecture standards & patterns.
Design an extensible data model and framework capable of supporting multiple employee benefits product types.
Define integration patterns API specifications and interface contracts with upstream/downstream systems.

Delivery Leadership
Lead and mentor a cross-functional development team providing guidance on engineering best practices and coding standards.
Drive technical decision-making across the development lifecycle ensuring solutions meet performance reliability and security requirements.
Oversee the implementation of new software components and refactoring of legacy components.
Conduct code reviews and architecture reviews.
Partner with product managers business analysts solution architects and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs.

Modernization & Simplification
Analyze existing data structures content translation rules engines and document templates to propose an optimized simplified design.
Introduce approaches for modern document configuration versioning composition and rendering.
Lead efforts to decouple content rules and formatting for easier maintenance.
Implement strategies for centralizing content and metadata.
System Integration & Standards
Ensure seamless integration with policy admin components such as product configuration and document management.
Ensure seamless integration with The Hartfords enterprise document generation engine (PDA) and document repository (Documentum).
Define and enforce standards for data governance metadata structures and API interactions.
Promote modernization technologies such as microservices micro-frontends cloud deployment models and automation pipelines.
Stakeholder Collaboration
Collaborate with solution architects product owners and engineering leadership to align on technical strategy.
Communicate technical decisions trade-offs and roadmaps to leadership.
Partner with QA and DevOps to ensure robust testing and deployment processes.

Required Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
8 years of software engineering experience with 4 in a technical lead or architect role.
Experience designing large-scale enterprise applications preferably in insurance or financial services.
Expertise in data modeling architectural simplification and legacy modernization.
Hands-on experience with API development microservices and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
Experience with document generation frameworks and content management systems.
Strong communication and leadership capabilities.

Java (8 years): enterprise back-end development service design code quality and reviews.

Technical Design & Data Modeling (5 years): simplify complex legacy models; design extensible product-agnostic data structures.

AWS & Cloud-Native Engineering (3 5 years): cloud services security/IAM CI/CD observability; building scalable APIs/microservices.

Preferred Skills
Experience with policy administration systems or document generation modules.
Knowledge of rules engines metadata-driven architectures or dynamic content assembly.
Familiarity with domain-driven design event-driven architectures and CI/CD.
Understanding of employee benefits product structures and regulatory requirements.
Java Certifications such as:
- Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 11 Developer or Java SE 17 Developer
AWS Certifications such as:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
Architectural or engineering certifications such as:
- TOGAF 9/10 Certification