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Horsham, Pa, Us

Horsham, Pa, Us

Head of Technology for the Life and Annuities Line of Business, reporting directly to the Enterprise CIO. Responsible for delivering on corporate priorities and maintaining the operational stability of our technology systems in the areas of Product, Distribution, Service Operations and New Business.Other duties include, motivating senior leaders, identifying skills gaps and filling as appropriate, establishing positive relationships with business stakeholders and executives to ensure IT is delivering business value.

Horsham, Pa, Us

- Drive software architecture best practice in the AWS cloud using technologies such asLambdas, API Gateway, Glue, IaC, Docker and ECS.- Champion and support both strategic and tactical aspects of application portfolios forFinance, Treasury, Investments, Distribution, and Service Operations.- Ensure teams are following the principles of the agile methodology, DevSecOps, andCI/CD.- Recruit, mentor and lead architects and senior engineers.- Be a thought leader, on key technology solutions to improve business operations.- Continue to drive the development of data platforms and adoption of SaaS solutions tomaximize business value.

Horsham, Pa, Us

- Architected new cloud native data platforms and in-house business applications from theground up for Annuity New Business, Claims, and our Broker Dealer.- Led 10 direct reports and 15 indirect staff, that maintained and enhanced backend dataplatforms and middleware services, aligned across 7 agile project teams.- Worked with cross functional teams and executives to influence positive businessoutcomes.- Served as senior level technical consultant to help guide and staff new technologyinitiatives.

Horsham, Pa, Us

- Architected and designed a financial data platform from the ground up to revolutionizethe way corporate actuaries manage data for reporting and analytics using Scala, Spark,Cassandra, Solr and Domo.- Led a team of 5 software engineers to continue the implementation of the data platform.- Improved the timing of data availability for quarterly financial reporting from Day 7 toDay 2.- Streamlined and shortened the financial quarter and year end close processes by 25%.- Partnered with Asset Management subsidiary to modernize and migrate the hedgingplatform from Excel to a risk modeling software as a service product.

Horsham, Pa, Us

• Technical leader for the Field Core Service, supplying contract, license and appointment data, used to verify an agent's ability to write and service business.• Technical leader for the Gateway Service, supplying policy, field and client data to the insight mobile application.• Developed middleware REST microservices using Java, Spring and Apache CXF.• Architected and designed frameworks that abstract out complication and keep code clean and reusable.• Developed user interfaces, using Google Web Toolkit, that allows the business to slice, dice and query data and display it in a way that is easy to understand.• Mentored junior developers by demonstrating coding best practices and standards.

Horsham, Pa, Us

• Architected, designed and implemented solutions to business needs in Prism, an internal administrative GWT web application created, managed, and built by me and used by the company for day-to-day operations.• Supported and enhanced all external production web applications.• Worked with the business and QA teams to create software requirements and help design test plans.• Enhanced and Mavenized shared Java modules in order to streamline build procedures.• Created and managed application build configurations using Jenkins, Maven, and Ant.

London, England, Gb

• Implemented solutions to assigned project items that fit within the design of the system, and a five-week, waterfall style, development and testing cycle.• Translated business specifications into well-designed Java code that the system could understand.• Supported all internal Java applications in the Retirement Systems department.• Provided development estimates on reported production issues for prioritization in future projects.• Performed confidence testing for major releases occurring twice a year.• Functioned as a project lead during various sprints when necessary.

Yorktown, Va, Us

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Us

Limra And Loma Strategic Leadership Experience Program

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science