Tech Lead/Java Developer

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:

Voya is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Tech Lead / Java Developer with Mobile experience to join our dynamic team. As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible end to end design, development, testing and implementation for the Digital Portfolio. Delivery includes Architecture, Design, Technical Risk Management, Incident, Problem & Change Management, and performance management.  Guides Application Systems solutions design through the life cycle of a set of work. 

The Contributions You’ll Make:

• Ensures proper coordination of software application design, development, testing, quality assurance, configuration, installation, and support to ensure smooth, stable, and timely implementation of work requests and issue resolution.
• Hands on coding/development for front end digital applications (including mobile app) and back-end JAVA batch applications.
• Provides technical and application portfolio risk management.
• Has accountability for the technical delivery of work for a defined portfolio.
• Ensure delivery and planning of extensive application development and maintenance.
• Partner with architects and shared services teams to ensure Voya standards, software development practices, and compliant designs are met.
• Identify opportunities for new services, continuous improvement, and cost reduction and manage related change requests.
• Manages the day-to-day operations (e.g. application maintenance, stability, innovation, development, incident, change & problem management)
• Ensure compliance with Voya policy and SLAs.
• Review performance results and determine when application maintenance support levels need to be changed. 
• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance.
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
• Experience with UI/UX design principles, version control systems, API development and integration, cross platform development and performance optimization.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering and development with the ability to code in Java, J2EE, Java API & JavaScript
• 5 years in technical leadership, supporting Digital Retirement Services Digital Portfolio
• Experienced developing with mobile frameworks (React Native).
• Experience with SQL, Linux, Windows, Cloud, Oracle.
• Demonstrated expertise working across multiple platforms/technologies.
• Experience with business analysis within a Digital Portfolio.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or a directly related field, Master’s Degree preferred.

Technical Knowledge in the following areas is critical:

• Cloud Technologies
• App and Web Servers
• Web Technologies – Java, JSP, Servlet, Java API, HTML, Java script, Maven, C#, .NET, ASP .NET Web services
• Framework – Struts, Spring MVC, EJB, CCF
• Middleware Platforms
• DevOps technologies
• Security tool - Veracode
• Monitoring tools
• Database – Oracle, SQL server
• Mobile Platforms – React Native

Preferred Skills

• Hands on extensive experience in Salesforce platform, particularly in Service, Sales and Financial Cloud

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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.

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.

Learn more about Critical Skills

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.