Senior Appian Software Engineer

Job Family IT - Development About Us At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment—one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. Who We Are We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them. We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good—for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms. What We Do Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include: 1. World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors. 2. Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions. 3. Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs. Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. For more information, visit transamerica.com. Job Description Summary The Senior Appian Software Engineer utilizes web and cloud technologies, APIs, and third-party software development frameworks to build and support application solutions. Provides support for design and development to an application development team, and advises a team of local or outsourced software engineers to build and support business application solutions. Job Description Responsibilities - Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment. - Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies. - Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead larger team design sessions for system level architecture solutions. - Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies and mentor other team members in design/coding standards. - Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts. - Support analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions. - Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to develop basic application solutions. - Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables. - Assist with preparing presentations and may lead development meetings. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience. - Three years of Core Java or .NET experience. - Strong knowledge of coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture). - Two years of experience and proficiency in database design techniques and philosophies (e.g. RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model). - Experience with NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB). - Understanding of cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various supporting tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs). - Experience with build and deployment tools (e.g. Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax). - Knowledge of developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark). - Two years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices). - Knowledge of Microservices and REST-based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper). - Knowledge with continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a CI/CD pipeline. - Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax). - Advanced understanding of software development and research tools. - Attention to detail and results-oriented, with a strong customer focus. - Ability to work as part of a team and independently. - Analytical and problem-solving skills. - Technical communication skills. - Problem-solving and technical communication skills. - Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines. Preferred Qualifications - Appian Developer certifications. - Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations. - Understanding of big data and real-time streaming analytics processing architecture. - Understanding of data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source-to-target mappings and ETL. - Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft). - Knowledge of the financial services industry. Working Conditions - Hybrid-Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays). - Work outside of normal business hours may be required. - Occasional Travel