Java Technical Lead

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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