Mutual Opportunities
Developer in Investment Management Technology
Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; New York, New York
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
The Opportunity
Our ideal technology lead participates 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/interfaces/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 MassMutual. 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/Development, Investment Accounting, and ensures recommended solutions are aligned with business and MassMutual IT strategies while adhering to relevant technology standards.
- Application delivery, support, and maintenance in a DevOps/Agile delivery model
- Experience with data-centric architectures, 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.
- Strong knowledge of the investment management industry, asset liability management, and risk management across multiple asset classes, public and private, including derivatives
- Candidates must combine an attention to detail with the ability to see the big picture.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively using verbal and written methods to all levels of an organization.
- Proficient with development tools
- Capable of applying knowledge to handle all but the most complex problems independently.
- 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
The Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or similar technical field of study
- 3+ years of experience development of software applications
- 2+ years of software development experience (preferably with SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud deployment and services
- 2+ years of back end / front end development concepts/technologies
The Ideal Qualifications
- 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
- Strong UI development experience using AngularJS/Angular or React, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery
- Strong experience in .NET core development, object-oriented programming, and T-SQL
- Experience creating and maintaining technical design documentation
- Experience using a DevOps delivery model
- Experience with batch job scheduling software
- AWS Developer certifications strongly desired
- Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker.
- Self-managed and motivated individual with strong leadership skills.
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
- Works with minimal oversight and proactively communicates status and risks to project leadership.
- Ability to work well in a team environment.
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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment. The job description includes the main duties of this position, which may evolve over time. You may be required to perform other duties not listed.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Salary Range: $144,800.00-$190,000.00
Hiring Process
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By the numbers*
- 88% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to bring forth new ideas - 86% of employee respondents say MassMutual cares about and supports the well-being of their employees
*Source: 2024 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Benefit details can be found here.
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