Software Development Consultant (Java, APIs/Springboot/Oracle)

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Get to Know the Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced expert-level developer to provide leadership for development teams and co-ordinate with business partners, product owners and other technology stakeholders and ensure successful execution of software projects, meeting client expectations and driving innovation in engineering practices for Voya Financial’ Workplace Solutions Technology team. This role is responsible for driving and leveraging technology/platforms/engineering to enable the organization's future-state business capabilities, which can enable business processes or practices that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

What You'll Contribute::

• Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives.
• Creates solution options adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap and minimizing technical debt.
• Designs and Develops solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains like customer engagement, data insights, customer servicing, and financial transactions.
• Responsible for all aspects of API design from product-centric thinking including scalability, reliability, and monitoring.
• Hands-on development of critical components and proof-of-concepts.
• Ensure security related to non-functional requirements are factored in solutions for APIs, applications, platforms, and databases
• Ensure adherence to regulatory and data privacy requirements/guidelines for systems and data.
• Monitoring the project progress and identifying potential risks.
• Improves overall design by tracking emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements.
• Continue to enhance business and technology domain knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
• Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of initiative, independent judgment and building the consensus with multiple teams.
• Monitors the Development progress and identifying potential risks, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
• Knowledge of client-server networking and database management concepts, Web server, application server administration and web applications deployment experience.
• Experience on middleware / application server and other relevant technologies including Oracle / Microsoft, JBoss, JRun, and Tomcat.
• Hands-on experience in Java Programing, Spring Boot framework, Restful APIs and data structures.
• Participate in process analysis, design, implementations and Post implementation activities.
• Acts as a technical SME, prepares technical specifications and design specifications. 

Minimum Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or information systems; master’s degree a plus
• 8+ years of software engineering and development, including minimum five in a tech lead role
• 5+ years’ experience with web services/micro-services/API standards (like Open API specification) and related technologies (HTTP(s), REST, JSON, WS*) with leverage API frameworks –Java, SpringBoot, GraphQL, and Node JS; batch/ETL and streaming data integration technologies, Data API's, data privacy, and compliance
• Understanding of cloud technologies in Azure Cloud – Data Factory, Batch, Databricks, streaming via EventHub, Data Lake Storage, Spark etc. – to design modern data analytics platform to support Data Visualization, Traditional Reporting, Advanced Analytics and Operational Data Stores
• Expert level experience data strategy including hands on development skills and experience.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps concepts.
• Thorough understanding of data analysis, business principles, and operations
• Expert level knowledge of existing, new, and emerging technologies and being able to apply them to new business designs and business models.
• Expert level experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• Understanding of financial services industry domains – Retirement, Workplace Solutions, Group Benefits, Wealth Management will be big plus for this role.
• Demonstrate problem-solving capability.
• Ability to clearly communicate / present technical information – technology and business leaders.

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$97,160 - $152,880 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

Learn more about Voya benefits (download PDF)

Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.