Principal Software Engineer

Position: Principal Software Engineer

Location: 1 Aflac Parkway, Columbus, GA 31907

Duties:

• Define architectural guidelines and best practices
• Lead software development initiatives from conception to deployment
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align software solutions with business objectives
• Introduce and train teams in advanced programming languages and tools
• Ensure cloud readiness and optimal performance of all applications
• Lead and mentor technical and project team members at the business function level
• Lead the project team in analyzing the requirements and providing accurate and detailed estimates for the designing, building, testing and deployment phases of the project
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to various technical teams
• Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Senior Infrastructure Technical staff to evaluate and recommend technology advancements and business solutions for assigned projects and/or applications
• Support the implementation and testing of cross-functional systems, ensuring system meets the needs of client and business
• Proactively monitor projects and/or existing production applications and core infrastructure by looking for ways to improve the applications and its availability
• Handle unresolved production support issues across multiple areas of expertise; analyzes the current architecture
• Provide design recommendations, develop application and custom integration solutions, including major enhancements and interfaces; write complex design specifications
• Provide leadership to support ongoing maintenance of client server applications or tools, depending upon previous involvement with projects
• Facilitate and ensure on-time completion of performance, load, functional and other categories of testing and application vulnerability testing efforts and resolution of issues including developing new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes

Minimum Requirements:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field.

• Must have at least 6 years of progressive experience in IT positions performing the following duties:
  
  • Applying experience with the Wynsure/eWAM full development cycle, Wynsure production support, and specific expertise in Wynsure Enrollment domain including Wynsure Service Layer Integration (SLI) APIs, Wynsure Event-Driven-Architecture (EDA), Wynsure Data Migration, and Wynsure Optimizations.
  • Experience in supporting an Enterprise scaled Production environment for Wynsure, including troubleshooting thru logs and crash dumps.
  • Utilizing experience with:
    
    • Wynsure technology: GOLD (enhanced variant of C++), eWAM, wMigrate, Wyseman, OQL
    • Web Services, SQL Server, ETL, Transact SQL (writing complex stored procedures, triggers), Powershell, IIS.
    • API and Integration including WebServices, REST, SOAP, XML, JSON. 

• Position may be eligible to work hybrid/remotely but is based out of and reports to Aflac offices in Columbus, GA. Must be able to travel to Columbus, GA regularly for meetings and reviews with manager and project eams within 24-hours' notice.

• Salary Range: $130,500- $170,000

Recruitment:

• Apply online https://careers.aflac.com/ or email resume to Adam Atkinson, Associate Counsel, Aflac, [email protected].