Lead Engineer - IT

Guardian

5 - 10 years

Chennai

Posted: 22/11/2024

Job Description

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:

Required Skills:
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  • AWS , preferably AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Knowledge of following AWS services required - EC2, S3, VPC, Security Groups, Route53, Code Deploy, IAM, Cloud watch, Cloud trail, ECS, EKS
  • Strong expertise in Jenkins
  • Building CI/CD pipelines and application deployments. Strong expertise in
  • Infrastructure Automation (Terraform / AWS Cloud Formation)
  • DevOps tools and understanding of web applications.
  • Strong expertise in Jenkins
  • Configuration Management with Puppet(preferred) / Ansible.
  • SCM (GIT)
  • Build tools (Ant, Maven)
  • Artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory)
  • Scripting (Python/ Groovy/ Shell/ PowerShell)
  • Container Management (Kubernetes/ Docker / AWS- ECS or EKS)
  • Working knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Windows)
  • Basic knowledge of network infrastructure for e.g.  TCP/IP, DNS, Firewall, router, load balancer etc.
  • Excellent communication, problem solving and customer service skills.

Location:

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

Chennai

About Company

Guardian Life is a U.S.-based mutual life insurance company offering life, disability, and dental insurance products. The company focuses on helping individuals and businesses secure financial protection through its range of insurance solutions, with a strong commitment to customer-centric services.

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