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Get To Know The Opportunity:
Voya Financial is a leading health, wealth, and investment company. We deliver innovative solutions to Voya’s Retirement, Employee Benefits, and Investment Management businesses. Voya is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Java focused Application Support Consultant to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for ensuring 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. You will work closely with our experienced development team, contributing to the overall success of our solutions. This Application Support Consultant supports the Application Maintenance IT Manager and Director and is accountable for the tactical Application Maintenance delivery for the Digital portfolio. Application Maintenance delivery includes Technical Risk Management, Incident, Problem & Change Management oversight and performance management, Process Management and Vendor Management. Guides Application Systems solutions design through the life cycle of a set of work. Partners with teams supporting Application Development and Application Maintenance such as Quality Assurance, Release Management and Shared Services in order to maintain a stable portfolio and support model.

Profile Description:

• Hands on development/coding for break fixes and minor enhancements for a suite of applications
• 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.
• 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 maintenance and currency efforts in partnership with project management.
• Coordinates with the Application Development Project team and application maintenance team.
• Partner with architects and shared services teams to ensure Voya standards, software development practices, and compliant designs are met.
• Review support documentation for Operational IT governance and ensure it is up to standard.
• 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.
• Seeks to achieve the highest value service from vendors and evaluates vendor performance based on vendor metrics.
• Review and validate service level report accuracy and escalate concerns/discrepancies.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience

• Hands on extensive experience in a Java development environment. Able to code in Java, Java API, JavaScript, C#, Spring, Angular.
• Basic knowledge in SQL, Linux, Windows, Cloud, Sybase, Oracle.
• Basic knowledge or experience of ‘no code/low code’ platforms is a plus
• Websphere knowledge and experience is a plus
• 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 in Application Management and incident response.
• Knowledge on production support and production incident trouble shooting skills.
• ANDBachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or a directly related field, Master’s Degree preferred.
• Eight + years of software engineering and development or Operations, including five years in technical leadership, preferably within a Digital Application Portfolio.
• Ability to embrace, adapt and lead through change, fosters effective partnerships, and drive effective collaboration with peers and vendor resources.
• Expertise in new computing architectures and implementation of networked computing structures
• Demonstrated expertise working across multiple platforms/technologies
• Ability to effectively communicate in both technical and business terms
• Knowledge on ITSM process and tools such as ServiceNow
• Experience with Devops and CICD pipelines
• Experience with business analysis within a Digital Portfolio.
• Ability to multitask, meet tight deadlines, shift and adjust work effort based on critical priorities and SLA’s.
• Technical knowledge in the following areas is critical:
• Cloud Technologies, App and Web Servers, Web Technologies, Middleware, messaging, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL, DB1), security tools such as Veracode

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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.

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