TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, AURA(St Louis Area )

Company: Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated
Location: Saint Louis
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

Leads, defines and owns the technical vision for AURAs Digital Services Team with a cloud-first approach. Ensures IT capabilities are designed, built and deployed using technology best practices while ensuring cost effectiveness in delivery and total cost of ownership. Develops and owns technology roadmaps with emphasis on driving out complexity and ensuring the company can scale efficiently and effectively as it grows. Works with the various IT leaders and associates to define technology architectures to meet the business needs.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates technology approach to requested new systems or enhancements while minimizing total cost of ownership.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends, technology advancements and open source direction, and plays a lead role in developing the skills and knowledge of other technical resources within RGA.
• Helps define and communicate RGA technology standards
• Serves as a liaison between the development team and various IT stakeholders.
• Seeks continuous performance improvement in technology solutions and ensures security of information
• Creates and implements effective metrics and monitoring processes
• Coaches and mentors colleagues with less experience
• Supports strategic planning and maintains alignment of projects with RTP's strategic direction and application architecture
• Participates in agile ceremonies (grooming, retrospectives, planning, SCRUM, etc.)
• Performs coding assignments, as needed
• Performs other duties as assigned
  Education and ExperienceRequired: -- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of development experience including automation
  • Proficiency in multiple tools of the full stack covering frontend frameworks, databases and deployments
  • Proficiency in a variety of modern programming languages
  • Proficiency in a variety of modern automation tools and frameworks
  • Experience with containerization
  • Experience with load testing
  • Experience with relational/NoSQL
  • Experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud provider
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to lead small teams or projects
  • Advanced ability to solve complex problems, drawing upon creativity, experience, and multiple sources of information
  • Advanced communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex or difficult information Preferred:
    • Master's degree and/or LOMA certification Technical Requirements
      • JavaScript/Java/Groovy/Go/C#/.Net/Python
      • Docker/Kubernetes
      • NodeJS
      • Cucumber/Geb/ProtractorJs/Selenium drivers
      • PostgrSQL/Mongo/Elastic/Oracle/
      • Terraform/Ansible Shell

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