Technical Consultant

The Company: true

The Location:

GA, US

The Division:

Job Id: 6687

Position: Technical Consultant

Location: 1932 Wynnton Rd., Columbus, GA 31999

Duties :

• Lead and mentor technical and project team members at the business function level.

• Operate as a project leader on a limited number of projects and may work on other projects as a member of the team providing advanced technical expertise.

• Work on small, large complex and enterprise-wide projects that require the highest level of expertise; participate on project teams, systems and data analysis, design, development, integration, and enhancement activities, as well as related maintenance and more complex production support.

• 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 and/or Software Systems Engineers 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; provide continuous support to internal and external clients who are experiencing problems with server hardware, operating systems, core infrastructure applications and related utilities, maintains mainframe operating systems or major subsystems, and associated software and hardware products; handles unresolved support issues across multiple areas of expertise.

• 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 mainframe and/or 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; develop new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes.

  Minimum Requirements :

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

• Must have 6 years of progressive experience in software development or technical consulting positions with the following:

• Experience and understanding of multiple programming languages, systems, as well as data design and project management methodologies.

• Leading medium-size projects of 3 -12 months in duration.

• Full Development Life Cycle for Software

• Utilizing experience with:

• Development Methodology & Procedures

• Data Analysis

• Development Software Architecture

• Design Specifications

• Adobe

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Azure DevOps

• OverOps

• Dynatrace

• Angular

• Data Modeling

• WebMethods

• Command level CICS

• DB2

• Websphere

• SQL & Relational Databases

• Source Control

• Web Service Development

• SSIS/ETL/Business Objects

• Distributed Platform Processing

• Docker containerization

• Java

• JavaScript

• JSON

• Microservice style architecture

• RabbitMQ

• Source Control

• Spring Framework

• UML

• XML

• XSL

• XSLT

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

• Salary Range: $118,290 - $150,000

  Apply online https://careers.aflac.com/ or email resume to Adam Atkinson, Associate Counsel, Aflac, aatkinson@aflac.com