Lead Software Engineer, Actuarial Technology Solutions

Position Overview

As a Lead Software Engineer at RGA you will be responsible for designing and implementing modern integrated software solutions in a complex Actuarial Technology product suite. A high degree of collaboration with cross functional IT teams is critical to ensure Actuarial Tech Solutions are secure, scalable, performant, resilient, high quality and cost effective. Your expert large scale software design, experience, passion and leadership will guide the solution development process from concept to reality. You will be a key influencer building a strong agile software product engineering team to deliver on commitments with emphasis on risk management and course correction. The role is also expected to leverage and contribute to robust technology policies, procedures, standards, and controls. As a key technology leader at RGA, you MUST be a champion and strong example towards our culture of innovation, collaboration, high performance and results orientation empowered towards continuous sustainable improvement.

Provides expert technical skills combined with strong leadership skills to articulate architectural direction and solutions to both product stakeholders and the development team. This is a full stack Sr. engineer with strong team leadership skills, deep proficiency in general programming languages, frameworks and deployment methodologies who creates API-based applications from concept to finished product with a cloud-first emphasis. Builds and encourages a collaborative environment while promoting architectural standards of the organization.

Significant experience consuming, producing, and analyzing very large datasets via parallel computing technologies is an absolute must have requirement

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of developers; oversees development team quality of work, timelines, and project risks without supervision.
• Designs, develops, tests, deploys and supports API-based systems focusing on industry best practices with a cloud-first emphasis.
• May supervise or manage four or fewer employees, and responsible for team's performance; coaches and mentors team members.
• Seeks continuous quality improvements for supported products.
  Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• Bachelor's degree of Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software development experience

Preferred:

• Master's degree and/or LOMA certification

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Required:

• Proficiency in multiple tools of the full stack covering frontend frameworks, databases and deployments
• Proficiency in a variety of general programming languages
• Proficiency in Test-Driven Development
• Experience with a variety of database technologies
• Proficiency in containerization
• 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
  Insurance and/or reinsurance industry knowledge
• Experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud provider

Preferred:

• AWS Tech stack and related certifications
• JavaScript/C#/Python
• Functions-as-a-Service (Lambdas or equivalent technology)
• Containerization and Container Orchestration (ECS or equivalent technology)
• PostgreSQL & AWS Aurora
• Terraform
• Bash
• Snowflake
• EMR or other Apache Spark processing solution

Company Overview

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA) is one of the largest global providers of life reinsurance, with offices around the world. RGA delivers expert solutions in individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting, and product development. Our mission is to enhance our clients' prosperity by supporting their financial and risk management capabilities.

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.