Senior Technical Lead

Hartford, CT, United States

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team of technology professionals working closely with business partners to identify, design, and deliver technology solutions. This position requires technical acumen, functional expertise, critical thinking, and ability to manage third-party solution providers. This dynamic position includes the entire spectrum of technology delivery, including projects, enhancements, defects, production support, technical design, and consulting.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Accountable for the development and delivery of technical solutions and systems that are cloud based, high performance compute enabled and fault tolerant by design:

Estimates for either project, service requests, and defect work effort

Developing technical specifications

Developing high level and detailed technical designs

Developing high level and detailed technical designs

Adherence to coding standards and guidelines

Adherence to change management and release management requirements

Integration of vendor technology

Detailed development and unit testing schedule

Test and production environment readiness

Model office and production deployments

Production turnover documents

Provides subject matter expertise on

Actuarial systems, including MG-ALFA, MG-Triton, PolySystems

Print solutions software (Solimar) and workload automation tool (Stonebranch)

Assists troubleshooting with Actuarial models environments

Ensures technical design(s) integrate with platform architecture

Design, develop and deploy interfaces for cloud applications

Collaborates with architecture and security teams to ensure code/integrations meet Nassau standards

Works with onshore and offshore technology partners

Responsible for operational readiness for projects

Responsible for executing unit testing and supporting system/user testing

Participate in teams on call rotation responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities College degree, or specialized training / equivalent work experience

Technology experience required:

VB.Net, Python, PowerShell, SQL Server, XML, JavaScript, CSS

Scheduling: Stonebranch

Report Print: Solimar

Actuarial: MG-ALFA, MG-Triton, PolySystems, Actuarial Model development and support

Additional Technical experience beneficial: AWS, JCL, SSIS

Proficiency in Microsoft office products

Requires in-depth knowledge of latest strategic technologies, including AWS cloud and data services (EC2, S3, Lamda, EBS, SNS, SMS, DynamoDB, etc.) to develop, deploy and rewrite applications

Familiar with IT security standards, protocols, and technologies

Effective communication skills

Ability to easily pickup new skills and willingness to roll up the sleeves to face new challenges

Analytical skills including problem solving, work estimates, planning resource requirements

Knowledge of compliance requirements

Familiar with applications, infrastructure, and underlying business processes used to support specific business areas for projects

Experience integrating and implementing complex technical solutions

Ability to provide project direction to employees, contractors, and software vendors

Compensation

Nassau maintains a holistic compensation philosophy focused on competitive base salaries, performance driven incentives, and unique professional development opportunities. The combination of compensation, benefits, and an entrepreneurial culture along with related experiences is key to recruiting and retaining talent. Our compensation system is designed to reward performance, support development and job growth, and compensate individuals relative to their contribution to our organization. The compensation for this position falls within Nassau’s salary band E: $100,000-$120,000.

Visit our Careers page and apply online at www.nfg.com

Based in Hartford, CT, Nassau Financial Group is a growth focused and digitally enabled financial services company with three distinct and closely connected businesses: insurance, reinsurance, and asset management. Nassau was founded in 2015 and has grown to $1.6 billion in total adjusted capital and $24 billion in assets under management.

As part of a young and growing financial services enterprise, our employees are tapping into a new entrepreneurial spirit while they build on a long track record of putting customers first, understanding the evolving income and protection needs, and developing quality products to meet those needs.

Nassau provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.