Technical Lead

Who We Are – MassMutual Romania

MassMutual Romania is a technology partner of MassMutual, a leading financial services company in the U.S., with a more than 170-year legacy. Established in 2020, the Romanian company is building an in-house team passionate about technology and innovation. We have expertise in software development, data science, and a wide range of technologies. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, and team members across the country, MassMutual Romania develops technological solutions that help MassMutual deepen its digital capabilities and accelerate its growth in a digital-first world.

Job Description

Our ideal Technical Lead participates in and leads the delivery of high-quality technical applications and service components using the newest technologies, tools, and patterns. The ideal candidate will also have an awareness of legacy technologies used by the applications and have the ability to upgrade/update code/interface/data management systems. The ideal candidate will be able to communicate well with team members, internal customers, business stakeholders, and can present complex technical topics to the team and business partners. This person will have some technical leadership experience and/or ability, so they can coordinate the work of others and collaborate with other technical leads and/or developers globally.

The Team

You'll be an integral part of our esteemed Corporate Technology Team, focused on Investment Management. Our mission is to build reliable solutions by utilizing our Investment Management applications and platforms. You will be part of a team that is technical, highly motivated and excels at working in a fast-paced and always evolving environment with agility and resilience. The team engages in business as usual (BAU) initiatives as well as major projects.  When needed, they collaborate with vendor resources and infrastructure teams.   

The Impact

The Technical Lead is responsible for the architecture, design, and integration of solutions/platforms, as well as being the lead technical resource on one of the IM Tech teams.  You must have the ability to collaborate with others on the team, solution/enterprise architects, and business representatives to provide/deliver technical solutions, even technologies that are new to our company.  You must be able to participate and/or conduct the sizing or estimation of work. This role supports strategic investment initiatives within the areas of Portfolio Management, Investment Operations, Derivative Operations, Quantitative Research and Development, Investment Accounting, and ensures recommended solutions are aligned with business and MassMutual IT strategies while adhering to relevant technology standards. 

Responsibilities

• Application delivery, support and maintenance in a DevOps/Agile delivery model.
• Conduct technical troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational support for production code
• Drives continuous improvement and efficiency beyond own scope of responsibility.
• Contribute to and review test strategy and test plans
• Understand the system architecture and translate into efficient designs that are scalable, maintainable, and re-usable, ensuring that designs are aligned with business and technical strategy
• Contribute to and review estimates for development and testing work
• Participate in / lead design review sessions
• Clarify and resolve design related issues with developers
• Highlight potential and actual issues effectively and work through to the appropriate resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
• 8+ years of experience with designing and implementing complex technical solutions
• 8+ years of experience with backend and frontend development
• 2+ years of investment management experience (asset liability management, and risk management across multiple asset classes, public and private, including derivatives) with an understanding of systems and data management
• Experience with data-centric architecture, multi-dimensional time series, and techniques to guarantee robust data integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and understand critical business features that drive value and translate those into solid technical solutions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to interact with business and technical personnel effectively and confidently, at all levels in the organization.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring skills.

Preferred:

• Experience coordinating and reviewing work with offshore team members.
• Experience and deep understanding of tools including containers, CI/CD - GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Helm, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, etc. and emerging technologies.
• Deep understanding of various design and architectural patterns including Service-Oriented Architecture/microservices/cloud-based architectures.
• Strong UI development experience using AngularJS/Angular or React, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery.
• Experience with Python and Java development.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical design documentation.
• Experience with batch job scheduling software.
• AWS Developer and/or AWS Solutions Architect certifications strongly desired.
• Investment or financial services domain knowledge is a plus.
• Able to integrate different systems/APIs/services to provide technical solutions.
• Experience gathering technical requirements and helping other team members understand requirements/solution.
• Work with architects/leaders as needed to solve the problem.
• Exceptional data analysis experience working with large data sets and multiple sources of data. Expert user of excel and proficient with SQL/Oracle query tools.
• Strong quantitative orientation, analytical skills, a high level of intellectual curiosity, tolerance for ambiguity and seasoned judgment.
• Must be able to explore multiple solutions to a problem and present and defend solutions based on an analysis of facts and an understanding of client needs.
• Strong understanding and adherence to IT SDLC and operational best practices.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and Agile concepts, including tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Desire to learn and ability to apply learnings to business issues.
• Self-managed and motivated professional with strong leadership skills.