Job Summary
The Technical Lead - FAST Policy Admin is responsible for leading software engineering, solution architecture, and technical delivery across policy administration platforms, enterprise integrations, data ecosystems, and customer-facing applications. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in Java, Angular, Spring Boot, TypeScript, MuleSoft, REST APIs, and enterprise integration, along with experience in FAST Policy Administration or comparable insurance platforms. The Technical Lead drives architectural decisions, technical roadmaps, modernization initiatives, production issue resolution, and engineering best practices within complex distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery across policy administration platforms, enterprise integrations, data ecosystems, and customer-facing applications.
• Design and develop solutions using Java, Angular, Spring Boot, TypeScript, MuleSoft, REST APIs, and ETL/data integration technologies.
• Define and guide enterprise integration architecture, including API-led connectivity, service orchestration, event-driven architectures, messaging patterns, XML/JSON transformations, and system interoperability.
• Integrate enterprise applications across APIs, messaging, ETL, data platforms, mainframe systems, and downstream applications.
• Perform end-to-end impact analysis across dependent systems, identifying upstream and downstream impacts, technical dependencies, integration touchpoints, and enterprise-wide implementation considerations.
• Design and integrate solutions across policy administration systems, customer servicing platforms, correspondence systems, operational data stores, data warehouses, reporting environments, reinsurance systems, mainframe applications, and downstream enterprise consumers.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and determine appropriate solution placement across FAST configuration, integration platforms, and downstream/data platforms.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Define technical roadmaps, technical enablers, modernization strategies, architectural improvements, and technology investment priorities.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, automated testing strategies, containerized deployments, Kubernetes, GitHub, and modern software delivery practices.
• Use AppDynamics, Kibana, centralized logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting tools to maintain application reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cross-platform production issues involving FAST, APIs, integration middleware, databases, correspondence platforms, reporting systems, data services, and downstream consumer applications.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, to improve requirements analysis, technical design, code quality, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity.
• Drive platform modernization, technical debt reduction, observability, automation, and supportability improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment.
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, enterprise application development, solution architecture, and technical leadership within complex distributed environments.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end solution delivery across enterprise applications, integrations, and data ecosystems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Angular, Spring Boot, TypeScript, MuleSoft, REST APIs, ETL/data integration, and enterprise application integration.
• Experience with FAST Policy Administration or comparable insurance policy administration platforms.
• Expert understanding of enterprise integration architecture, including API-led connectivity, service orchestration, event-driven architectures, messaging patterns, XML/JSON transformations, and system interoperability.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications across APIs, messaging, ETL, data platforms, mainframe systems, and downstream applications.
• Demonstrated ability to perform end-to-end impact analysis and identify system dependencies and integration considerations.
• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub, DevSecOps practices, automated testing, containerized deployments, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with AppDynamics, Kibana, centralized logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting tools.
• Experience resolving complex production issues across distributed applications, integration middleware, databases, and downstream systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity across the software development lifecycle.
• Strong technical leadership, architecture, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to define technical roadmaps, modernization strategies, and architectural improvements.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in the Life Insurance or Financial Services domain.
• SAFe Agile experience, including PI Planning, feature refinement, technical enablers, and cross-ART dependency management.
• FAST Policy Administration implementation, configuration, integration, release, and production support experience.
• Experience with Snowflake, Kafka/event-driven architecture, XML/JSON, data mapping, reporting architectures, and enterprise data flows.
• Experience with mainframe technologies such as COBOL and DB2, or integration with mainframe-based systems.
• Experience driving platform modernization, technical debt reduction, observability, automation, and supportability improvements.
• Experience applying AI-enabled engineering capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
