Lead Applications Developer

Company: Marsh and McLennan
Location: Austin
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Marsh is seeking candidates for the following roleLead Applications DeveloperLocation: Austin TX We are Marsh Inc. a global leader in insurance broking and risk management and we are looking for a Lead Applications Developer. You will be responsible for application development of key insurance systems on the new modern technology stack while focusing on quality code, automation and best practices. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT?

• Lead Applications Developer is responsible for developing complex custom software solutions to support Marsh business requirements.
• In this role you will:
• Implement business logic from business requirements and design specification
• Development of key insurance systems using new open source technology stack
• Focus on quality code, automation and good practices
• Contribute to and be part of the Development Center Of Excellence in driving up the quality and value of software development and delivery across the enterprise
• Proactively contribute to our system architecture and stack design, toolset, agile and DevOps approach
• Collaborate closely with Agile Dev team members, Product Owners and business users to deliver business value
• Develop and test software solutions and review code quality
• Automate build, test (unit, functional and performance) and deployment of the code part of the CI/CD pipeline by working closely with Platform Engineer We will count on you to:
  • Lead Applications Developer owns the design of the application and is responsible for the implementation with the development team and ensure the design is properly incorporated into the deliverables
  • Act as technical design authority collaborating with the solution architect to implement the solution
  • Provide application design feedback to the project team on an ongoing basis
  • Review detailed design and code deliverables and ensure quality
  • Assist the Enterprise architects in defining, implementing and overseeing technical standards, policies and tools
  • Provide technical oversight to development teams. Work with technical staff to understand problems with software and develop specifications to resolve them.
  • Responsible for effective application development including integration with other Marsh systems.
  • Responsible for operational effectiveness of the environment; adhere to Marsh Process Framework.
  • Proactively contribute to our system architecture and stack design, toolset, agile and DevOps approach
  • Collaborate closely with Agile Dev team members, Product Owners and business users to deliver business value
  • Automate build, test (unit, functional, security vulnerability and performance) and deployment of the code part of the CI/CD pipeline by working closely with Platform Engineer
  • Mentor developers on both technical topics and with Agile/DevOps adoption
  • Estimate Development efforts for new initiatives; help define and build Development teams by working with stakeholders What you need to have:
    • A degree in Computer Science or related field or have relevant experience
    • 12+ years of development experience in applications/product development using Java and/or MEAN Stack
    • Have experience or working knowledge of:
      • Javascript, Java (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Gradle, REST API s) JSON, XML
      • Web platforms such as NODE, Angular, React, MEAN Stack
      • Microservices such as Spring Boot, API Gateway (Apigee)
      • Agile - TDD (Junit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma) BDD (Cucumber) Pair Programming, Scrum/Kanban
      • DevOps - BitBucket/GitHub, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), Selenium, Sonar, Artifactory, Docker/Kubernetes, Datadog/Splunk, JMeter, Whitehat
      • Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle
      • Cloud - AWS, Private Cloud
      • OS - Linux, VM Architectures
      • Self-starter;
      • Insurance industry experience not required but desirable

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