Job Description:
Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management

Understand the project’s Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution.

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting

Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s).
Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project.
Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues.
During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality.
Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly.
Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.
Participate in project review meetings.
Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules

Design:

Create a detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) with possible alternate solutions.
Ensure that LLD design meets business requirements.
Submit the LLD design for review.
Fix the detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) for the comments received from team.

Development & Support

Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the functional specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.
Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.
Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.
Perform peer reviews of code to ensure it meets coding and efficiency standards.
Act as the primary reviewer to review the application code created by software engineers to ensure compliance to defined standards. Recommend changes to the code as required.

Testing & Debugging

Attend the Test Design walkthroughs to help verify that the plans and conditions will test all functions and features effectively.
Perform impact analysis for issues assigned to self and software engineers.
Actively assist with project- and code-level problem solving, such as suggesting paths to explore when testing engineers or software engineers encounter a debugging problem, and escalate urgent issues.

Documentation

Review technical documentation for the code for accuracy, completeness, and usability.
Document and maintain the reviews conducted and the unit test results.

Process Management

Adhere to the project and support processes.
Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.
Shows responsibility for corporate funds, materials and resources.
Ensure adherence to SDLC and audits requirements.
Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies.

Qualifications:
Responsibilities:

Acts independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications.
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
Individual should have a proven delivery track record of on time delivery
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
Individual must be independent and not require a lot of direction. They should have a positive attitude and be a good team player.
Individual should have maturity in assessing the urgency of an issue and understanding proper escalation along with anticipating issues and risks.
Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
Responsible for conducting software analysis, programming, testing and debugging
Provides unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications.

Qualifications

5 to 8 years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications,
Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2)
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JMS ,Kafka.
Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices
Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture
Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.

Core Technical Skills:

Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai

Guardian Life Insurance Company Looking for Lead Engineer – IT at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

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