This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA's family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 11 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-IT Applications Developer IV

Develops, implements and assesses specific new and emerging technologies, platforms, and services.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Assessing the technical viability of emerging products and technologies.

• Working with developers and infrastructure specialists to test and evaluate new technologies.

• Participating in the development of business cases and obtaining approvals for capital expenditures.

• Monitoring and analyzing new technology product performance and resolving issues regarding potential improvements or modifications to complex situations, as needed.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

8IC

Summary

Sr Engineering (DCAT Engineering) is a Builder role with 8+ year of experience of Digital Engineering domain.Partner with Product Managers, Analysts and business partners in design and develoment for DCAT Engineering Solutions. The role requires close collaboration with Infrastructure, Cyber and Data teams as needed.

Location Charlotte or Iselin

Role: Hybrid Flex

Responsibilities

Understand business needs and design appropriate technical solutions to meet those needs.

Provide inputs to planning, estimation, scheduling, prioritization and coordination of technical activities related to system development.

Ensure system alignment to Enterprise Architecture policies and best practices; ensure that process methodologies are followed in system development.

Manage day to day technical challenges and communicate to project manager any risks or issues associated with the development activities.

Mentor development staff in effective solutioning for tough technical challenges.

Required Skills

End-to-end technical ownership, coordinating with different technical roles

Fluent in Digial tech stack

Fluent in enterprise architecture

Strong understanding of software architecture concepts in building a variety of applications, including web sites, web services, and batch processing systems.

Champion of Agile software development methodologies.

Champion of unit testing, test driven development and other forms of automated testing.

Strong understanding of advanced software development concepts such object-oriented design and development, multi-threading, thread safety, exception handling and logging, asyncronous operations, etc.

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Passionate about technology and solving problems with technology.

Technologies:

CIAM Engineers: Ping Suite (PingFederate, PingAccess, Ping Directory), Transmit. Security Protocols : OAuth 2.x, SAML, LDAP, Java, Spring, Containers (Openshift/EKS)

API Engineers: API Gateways (like Kong), ServiceMesh (like Istio), API development and security by default, FDX Standards

Cloud Engineers: Hyperscaler Cloud certified AWS or GCP, Cloud native builds and migrations in AWS with knowledge on various AWS platform capabilities, K8 Container technologies (like Openshift or EKS), CDN Knowledge (like Akamai), Caching Technologies (like Redis)

Languages and Framework :Java, Spring Framework (SpringMVC, Spring Security, Spring Boot and Spring Batch, etc..), Open API, REST

Cloud Tech & Moinitoring : AWS, GCP, Dynatrace, Teraform

Database : Oracle, PL/SQL, Mongo, other database technologies.

JSON, XML, XSL, XSLT, XSD, JAXB.

HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, React, AngularJS, other JavaScript libraries.

Distributed source control systems such as Git.

Gradle or similar build automation tools.

jUnit and mocking frameworks.

Enterprise Development with Automated Builds, Deployment, Testing

Start Date: 14-Apr-2025

End Date: 31-Mar-2026

Travel Required: No

Anticipated Posting End Date:

2025-03-28

Base Pay Range: $53.18/hr. - $85.57/hr.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

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