Sr. Full Stack Technical Lead

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SAG-AFTRA Health Plan | SAG-Producers Pension Plan
Burbank, CA, United States
  • Insurance
  • FullTime

General Summary For more than 60 years the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and SAG-Producers Pension Plan (the Plans) have provided health and retirement benefits to thousands of entertainment professionals and their dependents across the globe. The Plans are currently undergoing a major transformation focused on evolving our operations toward a participant-inspired experience.

The Senior Technical Lead is a strategic, hands-on engineering leader responsible for guiding complex enterprise solutions from concept to delivery across multiple workstreams. This role partners closely with Business Systems Analysts (BSAs), product owners, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs. The Senior Technical Lead provide leadership and oversees onshore and offshore development teams, ensuring high quality delivery across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, including data migration, business rules, workflow automation, system integrations, and platform modernization.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Lead with 8+ years of experience in Java EE, Spring Framework, and related technologies. The ideal candidate will have balanced experience (50% front-end and 50% back-end) and preferably exposure to healthcare, pension, or related domains.

This role is responsible for designing and developing technical solutions for IT projects, mentoring developers, overseeing technical teams, and ensuring all deliverables meet or exceed customer expectations.

Essential Job Responsibilities

  • Ownership of multiple concurrent project streams
  • Strong business-facing and consultative role
  • Leadership across distributed (onshore/offshore) teams
  • Expertise in end-to-end delivery, not just development
  • Ability to drive architecture, strategy, and execution simultaneously

Technical Leadership & Architecture

  • Provide end-to-end technical leadership across the SDLC for multiple concurrent initiatives, with accountability for execution quality, implementation readiness, and delivery coordination. Translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable, secure technical solutions.
  • Lead detailed solution design and implementation planning for complex systems, integrations, workflows, and data flows in alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Define and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices.
  • Conduct technical assessments of legacy systems and propose modernization strategies.
  • Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools aligned with business and technical goals.

Project & Delivery Leadership

  • Lead and coordinate multiple project streams simultaneously, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery.
  • Partner closely with BSAs, architects, and business leaders to shape solution approach, validate feasibility, and align delivery sequencing across complex initiatives.Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery by coordinating with cross-functional teams
  • Manage and Identify dependencies, risks, propose mitigation strategies, and ensure smooth execution across distributed teams.
  • Guide Technial leads and teams in translating business requirements into technical tasks and guide teams through implementation.
  • Lead and align onshore, offshore, and vendor-supported teams across multiple workstreams, while coaching leads and senior team members to drive consistent delivery.Drive estimation, sprint planning, and execution in Agile environments.
  • Serve as the senior escalation point for complex technical delivery risks, integration issues, and implementation blockers.
  • Partner with leadership and other teams on prioritization, resource planning, sequencing, and technical delivery tradeoffs for major initiatives.

Hands-On Engineering

  • Provide hands-on leadership for the most complex components, integrations, and perform critical POC’s and frameworks.
  • Provide senior technical oversight on complex solution issues. Review code, troubleshoot issues, and guide teams through technical challenges.
  • Ensure high standards of quality through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous integration.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 10+ years designing and developing multi tier enterprise applications using Java EE, Spring, and modern frameworks.

  • 8+ years building web and enterprise applications across the full Java technology stack.

  • 6+ years developing SOA based and RESTful services using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate/Redis.

  • With strong experience in:

  • Micro Front-end frameworks with React, Angular, or Vue.js

  • Event-driven architecture (Kafka or similar platforms)

  • API Gateways and ESB integrations

  • Experience with workflow engines, business rules engines (e.g., Drools), and BPM/ECM platforms.

  • Experience with MariaDB/MySQL, Oracle, Kafka, ESB/API Gateways, and event streaming platforms.

  • Strong understanding of data migration strategies, ETL pipelines, and data modeling.

  • Proficiency with testing frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Jasmine, Karma.

  • Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.

Competencies

  • Customer Focus — Gains insight into customer needs; identifies opportunities that benefit the customer; builds and delivers solutions that meet customer expectations; establishes and maintains effective customer relationships.

  • Decision quality — Makes sound decisions, even in the absence of complete information; relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions; considers all relevant factors and uses appropriate decision-making criteria and principles; recognizes when a quick 80% solution will suffice.

  • Ensures accountability — follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same; acts with a clear sense of ownership; takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures; establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results; designs feedback loops into work.

  • Communicates effectively — Is effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels; attentively listens to others; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; provides timely and helpful information to others across the organization; encourages the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.

  • Instills trust — follows through on commitments; is seen as direct and truthful; keeps confidences; practices what he/she preaches; shows consistency between words and actions.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Database programming using SQL with MySQL or Oracle

  • Ability to convert user stories into technical tasks

  • Experience with deployment strategies for distributed and multi-tier applications

  • Ability to create UML diagrams and flowcharts using Visio or similar tools

  • Pension domain experience is a strong plus

  • Experience with BPM and ECM

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

  • Exceptional ability to translate business needs into technical architecture and actionable engineering plans.

  • Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence, mentor, and guide diverse engineering teams.

  • Proven success managing onshore/offshore teams and delivering complex multi stream projects.

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non technical stakeholders.

  • Highly organized, proactive, and capable of driving initiatives with minimal supervision.

  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a solution oriented mindset.

  • Ability to thrive in fast paced Agile/Scrum environments and adapt to evolving priorities.

Physical Requirements The physical demands listed below are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions. A request for a reasonable accommodation should be made in writing and delivered to HR.

Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.

All employees of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and SAG-Producers Pension Plan are “at will.” This means that both employees and the Plans have the right to terminate employment at any time, with or without advance notice, and with or without cause.

Notice SAG-AFTRA Health Plans and SAG-Producer Pension Plans provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you are a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with LA county local ordinances.

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