Java Technical Lead (with Angular)
Cluj-Napoca, Romania & Bucharest, Romania Technology Job ID R16707Who We Are – MassMutual Romania
MassMutual Romania – in partnership with MassMutual in the United States – will help shape a culture of innovation and to create the digital products and technology solutions that help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. Positioning MassMutual for its next 20 million customers and remaining innovative in a digital-first world led to the creation of MassMutual Romania in 2020. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, MassMutual Romania was established to build an in-house team with expertise in application development and support, quality assurance and data science. For 170 years, MassMutual has put its customers at the heart of what it does by providing holistic financial solutions, guidance, and education on their terms. Its long-term strategy helps ensure that policyowners and their loved ones can rely on them to be there when they need them most. If this vision excites you, come join us and become a MassMutual Romania team member. This is a great opportunity to be part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be one of the most important enablers to our success and you can be a part of it.
The Opportunity
Do you want to be part of a team that encourages your growth, supports your ambitions, and makes it a priority for you to reach your goals? Is helping people part of who you are? At MassMutual Romania, we help millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection and plan for the future. We do this by building trust with our customers by being knowledgeable problem solvers and prioritize their needs above all else. We Live Mutual. If this sounds like a fit, come join our team.
You will be joining MassMutual’s New Business and Underwriting Technology team, which consists of product owner/manager, developers, engineers, analysts, testers focused on delivering software solutions through waterfall and agile methodologies. You will be part of a team that is technical, highly motivated and excels at working in a fast paced and always evolving environment with agility and resilience.
As a Technical Lead you will be working in a fast paced fast paced, innovative, and collaborative environment on exciting business and technology directives. You will have end to end ownership across various initiatives across various application platforms. processes. As part of this role, you will be working with variety of stakeholders, contributing and influencing decision-making.
If this vision excites you, we are seeking a Technical Lead to become a MassMutual Romania team member. This is a great opportunity to be a part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be paramount, and you can be a part of this important work.
Responsibilities
Maintain and prioritize the Product Backlog, ensuring that the team is working on stories that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality to business customers
Serve as the Technical liaison to the supported business group by listening to and understanding key business objectives and strategy of the product
Engage and establish effective working relationships with business owners and stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment
Workwith business stakeholders to define and prioritize the Product Backlog refinement, manages road map, and establish intake mechanism
Assess business value and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with product strategy
Provide inputs to ensure user stories clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the development team
Work with team to clarify stories as necessary
Advises Business Stakeholders on decisions impacting product functionality
Participate and prepare for Strategic and Program Planning
Participate in team Demo, Retro, and Inspect and Adapt
Maintain oversight, understands inter-team dependencies, escalate issues, identify potential risks and develop mitigation plans
Lead the team through technical roadblocks, contributing technical development and design skills to the team
Provide technical expertise and leadership to design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and operation of systems and/or applications that support Mass mutual applications/platforms & integrations
Build complex system components integrating appropriate technologies as needed (e.g. creation, processing and consumption of events (Kafka preferred)
Lead the design of event schema, topic design and production and consumption patterns
Expertise in understanding of algorithms and data structures (core SE concepts such as sorting, inserting sort, merge sort etc.)
Provide ongoing product support and maintenance to systems, with proven ability to think critically and componentize issues. Support other team members when debugging
Accountable for enforcing use of SE Excellence principles in the scrum teams being managed.
Writing or reviewing software system documentation and ability to share knowledge is a must
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred
Proven experience as a Solution Architect or similar role in the technology domain
Prior experience as a Tech Lead who can be hands-on and guide a team of technical resources
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About MassMutual®
MassMutual Romania is a technology partner of MassMutual, a leading financial services company in the U.S., with a legacy of more than 170 years. Established in 2020, the Romanian company is building an in-house team passionate about technology and innovation. We have expertise in software development, data science and a wide range of technologies. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, and team members across the country, MassMutual Romania develops technological solutions that help MassMutual accelerate its digital capabilities and enable it for the next stage of growth in the digital-first world.