Technical Leader

Job description

TRANZACT is a leading direct-to-consumer insurance services business, specializing in the distribution of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Life & Supplemental insurance policies.

Our focus is on leveraging our highly skilled team of over 3,000 professionals to deliver innovative solutions for our insurance carrier partners and provide consumers with a best-in-class experience.

We work with some of America's largest insurance brands to attract, educate and connect with consumers.

Our diverse team of analysts, writers, engineers, designers, business leads, data scientists and sales professionals all work together to create thoughtful, data-driven and effective marketing, technology, sales and servicing strategies.

These efforts have resulted in TRANZACT earning recognition and winning awards from some of the biggest names in the industry.

About the Team

We're looking for a creative, talented Technical Leader to join our Finance and Administration Engineering Team.

We are an agile development team that fully embraces the DevOps culture.

You will lead the effort of building highly scalable solutions and applications to support Tranzact's line of business over the years to come.

How the Position Works

As the lead of Software Engineering team(s) in a domain, you will report to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and manage team(s) of Software Engineers who develop and maintain solutions that support TRANZACT's post sale operations.

The Technical Leader is a highly motivated individual with solid technical knowledge and experience in Software development.

You will be key in leading the team and the domain core solutions to the next level using your knowledge of software engineering best practices and your tenacious approach to learn the business and improve the team's processes and deliverables.

Good communication is a must as you will need to work with the rest of the domain leaders and operations teams to integrate and roll out your platform's deliverables.

The specific responsibilities include:

• Leading the agile teams to design and implement features to realize the platform's vision and roadmap.
  
  
• Managing, mentoring and providing technical leadership on the day-to-day tasks and priorities of the platform team.
  
  
• Apply your experience and knowledge of software engineering best practices to ensure our applications are secure, robust, scalable and maintainable.
  
  
• Continually improve our platforms, identifying opportunities, prioritizing payment of technical debt and refactoring the codebase to grow and evolve with current technology, and end-user needs.
  
  
• Evolve the team's processes and practices to improve non-technical responsibilities like end-user support, documentation, maintaining architectural decisions, etc.
  
  
• Promote a culture of technical innovation, enabling teams to solve complex challenges with creative and efficient solutions.
  
  
• Collaborate with domain owners to ensure their business objectives are met through technical strategies and solutions.
  
  
• Serve as a mentor and thought partner to engineering leaders, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence within the organization.
  
  

What you need to be successful

• Extensive experience in software development, architecture, and delivery management, with a focus on modern practices like Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD.
  
  
• At least 4 years of experience leading Agile teams.
  
  
• Good understanding of Domain Driven Development, TDD, Clean Code, Design Patterns and SOLID principles.
  
  
• Good understanding of building .NET applications, C# as a primary programming language.
  
  
• Commitment to communication and transparency; regularly contributing to team ideation.
  
  
• An outgoing, positive and assertive personality.
  
  A self-starter who works well with peers and others but is not afraid to speak up.
  
  A naturally curious and tenacious problem solver.
  
  
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences in English.
  
  
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
  
  
• Help the team to build resilient technical infrastructures and processes to support high-quality delivery at scale.
  
  
• Strong ability to build trust with the Domain Owner and align technical solutions with business objectives.
  
  

When you become part of TRANZACT, you join a team of passionate people who push for excellence, follow through on commitments, and love to succeed together.

Our culture rests on a simple principle – Be Real – that means being genuine, keeping your word, and having the courage to make tough decisions.

Our Be Real values resonate and are meaningful to us.

We are entrepreneurial, fast paced and empower our people.

We know how to make things happen and know that our people are always the source of our success.

At TRANZACT we promote inclusion and job insertion without distinction based on disability, gender, orientation, gender identity and expression, place of origin or any other reason protected by national legislation.

The company respects diversity and does not tolerate acts of discrimination in its processes.

As a company, we believe in equal opportunities and inclusion.

Consequently, this job opening is applicable to people with disabilities (in accordance with what is stated in Law No

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