IT Developer Specialist

Lead the design, development and delivery of technology-enabled applications, products and services. Oversee the delivery of technical solutions and ensure that the delivered solution meets the business requirements, design requirements and technical specifications. Provide coaching and mentoring to junior Developers. What you do Planning and execution: Lead the conceptual design development, ensuring that the solution is viable and designed appropriately to solve the business case; provide support for the facilitation and review of estimates. Work closely with ScrumMaster for Agile projects are appropriately supported with strong technical leadership; and similarly provide technical leadership for all waterfall (SDLC) project efforts. Project process support: Provide / coordinate estimates for the development components required for the solution and oversee design efforts across capabilities / systems; provide support to Project Managers to ensure design / build activities remain within project schedule / budget; act as a technical advisor to the Project Manager, QA lead and/or business; facilitate escalation and resolution of technical issues during the development of the solutions; responsible for leading technical vendor work, delivery review and acceptance. Communication: Responsible for assessing and communicating status of development activities based on summaries from Systems Analysts, other Developers; may include vendors and other solution participants. Facilitate the maintenance and progression of development standards and currency of solution frameworks. Design, document, code and conduct unit tests and de-bugging of software solutions and components; apply enterprise standards, application patterns and development best practices in solutions development / delivery. Highly self-directed at designing and implementing timely, quality solutions. Provide inputs in establishment of development standards and process. Evalauate new solutions / tools / methodolgies and provide feedback. Own and ensure maintenance of technical solution diagrams and models; present solution alternatives as needed to all levels of organization. Decompose complex problems into manageable work items for delivery of others. Provide technical direction and solutions regarding coding and design. Go-to person for peers and development team members. Mentor / coach other technical team members. Assess and recommend IT capability improvements for applications, including: Implementing, logging and monitoring at appropriate levels and driving upgrades to currently supported software. What you bring 8 years experience: Capabilities such as JavaEE, Spring integration and batch, MVC JSP debugging, JavaScript development, AJAX development, WebService development, SOAP and WSDL, XML, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SQL development, extensive debugging 11 years experience preferred: Capabilities such as IBM MQ, WebSphere, Spring Batch, Spring IOC and Spring AOP, Linux/Unix background, C++ Four-year degree preferred: Software Engineering, Information Systems, or similar discipline Locations 3 days/week hybrid in Minneapolis, MN About Allianz Technology Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 12,000 employees located in 51 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry. We oversee the full digitalization spectrum - from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. D&I Statement Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life. Join us. Let's care for tomorrow. You.IT Nearest Major Market: Minneapolis