Lead II - Enterprise Solutions UST West Des Moines, IA Full-Time

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Accountabilities:

• Provide holistic technical leadership across all areas of Operations IT, with a focus on delivering information and solutions that are timely, accurate, reconciled and complete.
• Assist in the development of internal policies and procedures (standards, controls and metrics) as a member of Athene’s Tech Lead Community of Practice.
• Analyze application performance and trends, working with the different teams to ensure our applications remain scalable and the performance meets critical SLAs.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Technical Services team on solution design and delivery.
• Coordinate project work for technical team members on assigned projects.
• Design and maintain data quality checks including code inspections, unit testing, regression testing and documentation.
• Document software architecture and flows.
• Lead root cause analysis for major incidents and problems to ensure solutions are identified to prevent problems from reoccurring, as requested by the applications teams.
• Mentor and coach Developers, ensuring compliance with technology standards and best practices.
• Provide feedback to the Operations IT application owners on developer’s coding and skill deficiencies and help with defining training and development.
• Work across the various Operations IT product teams to ensure logging and monitoring is properly designed and functioning for our critical business applications.
• Create technology roadmaps for strategic applications including systems migration, system integration and incremental adoption of new technology.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 7+ years' required, 10 years' preferred, experience as a contributing and lead member of successful enterprise projects with at least 6 years of software development experience, utilizing Python, Java and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
• 5+ years of experience coding SQL with proven experience of optimizing SQL.
• 3+ years of using DevOps tools like Bamboo, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes.
• Advanced knowledge in enterprise software patterns, cloud technologies, containerization, API design and integration and data science skills.
• Experience with Agile Scrum development methodologies.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform.
• Background in Insurance/Annuities or Actuarial Science is required.
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience.

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