**Job Description:** We are seeking Engineering Leader with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. They will work alongside business stakeholders, product owners, and developers to build customer facing apps for different business units. **Responsibilities:** + Execute product architecture decisions with the Solution Architect, ensuring alignment with Product D&T Leader + Work with Solution Architect and Product Owner to align product-level roadmap and acceptance criteria with strengths and opportunities within the existing architecture + Collaborate with Solution Architect in identifying existing and new reusable, scalable components to incorporate in the product architecture + Coach team engineers, QA and production support in best practices, such as conducting regular code reviews and pair programming sessions, to ensure clean, scalable code + Identify, manage, and resolve team-level dependencies, impediments, and risks + Monitor and manage technical debt, ensuring it is documented, prioritized, and addressed as part of the team’s backlog + Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle + Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies. Qualifications • 15+ years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications, • Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2) • BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent • Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JMS ,Kafka. • Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices • Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture • Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment. • Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required. • Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility. • Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries. Core Technical Skills: · Java/J2EE Technologies (JSP, Servlets / filters / Interceptors, JNDI, JMS) · Spring Boot / Micro services · REST and SOAP Based web services · IBatis/Hibernate/SQL/Oracle · REST API, Postman, Swagger, OAuth · WebSeal · AWS/ECS · Jenkins/CI CD · Junit , Mockito or Easy Mock, TDD · Git · Markup Languages like XML and JSON · Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery a plus · Front End frameworks like React/NextJs a plus **Location:** This position can be based in any of the following locations: Chennai, Gurgaon **Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday** Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com .