Developer in Investment Management Technology

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The Opportunity

Our ideal technology lead participates and leads the delivery of high-quality technical applications and service components using the newest technologies, tools, and patterns. The ideal candidate will also have an awareness of legacy technologies used by the applications and have the ability to upgrade/update code/interfaces/data management systems. The ideal candidate will be able to communicate well with team members, internal customers, business stakeholders, and can present complex technical topics to the team and business partners. This person will have some technical leadership experience and/or ability, so they can coordinate the work of others and collaborate with other technical leads and/or developers globally.

The Team

You'll be an integral part of our esteemed Corporate Technology Team, focused on Investment Management. Our mission is to build reliable solutions by utilizing our Investment Management applications and platforms. 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. The team engages in business as usual (BAU) initiatives as well as major projects. When needed, they collaborate with vendor resources and infrastructure teams.

The Impact:

The Technical Lead is responsible for the architecture, design, and integration of solutions/platforms, as well as being the lead technical resource on one of the IM Tech teams. You must have the ability to collaborate with others on the team, solution/enterprise architects, and business representatives to provide/deliver technical solutions, even technologies that are new to MassMutual. You must be able to participate and/or conduct the sizing or estimation of work.

This role supports strategic investment initiatives within the areas of Portfolio Management, Investment Operations, Derivative Operations, Quantitative Research/Development, Investment Accounting, and ensures recommended solutions are aligned with business and MassMutual IT strategies while adhering to relevant technology standards.

• Application delivery, support, and maintenance in a DevOps/Agile delivery model
• Experience with data-centric architectures, multi-dimensional time series, and techniques to guarantee robust data integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and understand critical business features that drive value and translate those into solid technical solutions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to interact with business and technical personnel effectively and confidently, at all levels in the organization.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring skills.
• Strong knowledge of the investment management industry, asset liability management, and risk management across multiple asset classes, public and private, including derivatives
• Candidates must combine an attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively using verbal and written methods to all levels of an organization.
• Proficient with development tools
• Capable of applying knowledge to handle all but the most complex problems independently.
• Conduct technical troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational support for production code
• Drives continuous improvement and efficiency beyond own scope of responsibility.
• Contribute to and review test strategy and test plans
• Understand the system architecture and translate into efficient designs that are scalable, maintainable, and re-usable, ensuring that designs are aligned with business and technical strategy
• Contribute to and review estimates for development and testing work
• Participate in / lead design review sessions
• Clarify and resolve design related issues with developers
• Highlight potential and actual issues effectively and work through to the appropriate resolution

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or similar technical field of study
• 3+ years of experience development of software applications
• 2+ years of software development experience (preferably with SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud deployment and services
• 2+ years of back end / front end development concepts/technologies

The Ideal Qualifications

• Experience and deep understanding of tools including containers, CI/CD - GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Helm, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, etc. and emerging technologies
• Deep understanding of various design and architectural patterns including Service-Oriented Architecture/microservices
• Strong UI development experience using AngularJS/Angular or React, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery
• Strong experience in .NET core development, object-oriented programming, and T-SQL
• Experience creating and maintaining technical design documentation
• Experience using a DevOps delivery model
• Experience with batch job scheduling software
• AWS Developer certifications strongly desired
• Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker.
• Self-managed and motivated individual with strong leadership skills.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
• Works with minimal oversight and proactively communicates status and risks to project leadership.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.

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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status. If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.