Consultant - IT

Guardian Life Insurance; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life Insurance seeks a Technical Lead with deep hands‑on engineering experience to design, develop, and deliver scalable enterprise applications. You will guide multiple development teams, own solution design, and ensure architecture alignment across APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms.

The role emphasizes leading technical direction, building robust, secure systems, and driving CI/CD adoption while collaborating with Product Owners and cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Architect and design end‑to‑end full‑stack solutions across frontend and backend systems.
• Review engineers’ PRs and mentor on coding standards, scalability, and best practices.
• Collaborate with UX/design to ensure consistent, responsive UI/UX patterns.
• Design and develop scalable, secure APIs and backend services.
• Build and maintain high‑performance React/Next.js applications.
• Lead development of server‑side rendering and SEO‑friendly web apps.
• Manage deployments across Dev, QA, UAT, Production.
• Define and implement CI/CD pipelines for web apps.
• Provide production support on rotation/on-demand basis.
• Ensure high test coverage (unit, integration, UI).
• Guide test automation via AI.
• Champion coding standards, architectural guidelines, best practices.
• Promote AI-assisted development practices for quality and productivity.
• Evaluate new frontend/backend technologies and frameworks.
• Design security, scalability, high availability solutions.
• Work with cross-functional teams on complex initiatives.
• Overlap time zones with US East coast teams as required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design end‑to‑end full‑stack solutions across frontend and backend systems.
• Review engineers’ pull requests and mentor them on coding standards, scalability, and best practices.
• Collaborate with UX/design teams to ensure consistent, intuitive, and responsive UI/UX patterns.
• Design and develop scalable, secure APIs and backend services.
• Build and maintain high‑performance React/Next.js applications.
• Lead development of server‑side rendering and SEO‑friendly web applications.
• Manage application deployments across environments including Dev, QA, UAT, and Production.
• Define and implement CI/CD pipelines for web applications.
• Responsible for production support on a rotational/on‑demand basis.
• Ensure high test coverage (unit, integration, and UI tests).
• Guide test automation via AI.
• Lead the adoption of coding standards, architectural guidelines, and best practices.
• Champion the adoption of AI‑assisted development practices.
• Evaluate and recommend new frontend/backend technologies and frameworks.
• Design solutions for security, scalability, and high availability.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to deliver complex technical initiatives.
• Work shift: overlap with US East coast teams.

Skills

12+ yrs exp

Team leadership

Java Spring Boot

React Next.js

SSR/SSG

RESTful APIs

Microservices

AI-assisted dev tools

Cloud AWS

Docker Kubernetes

CI/CD

Code quality & security

Observability tools

SQL NoSQL databases

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

ChatGPT

Job description

Job Description:

Job Profile Summary

We are seeking a Technical Lead with strong hands‑on engineering experience in designing, developing, and delivering scalable enterprise applications. This role requires deep technical expertise across full‑stack development, API‑driven architecture, cloud‑enabled delivery, automation quality practices, and engineering leadership to ensure reliable, secure, and high‑performing solutions.

The Technical Lead will provide technical direction, own solution design, guide development teams, review engineering deliverables, and collaborate closely with Product Owners, architects, developers, QA engineers, and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate business needs into robust technology solutions. The role is accountable for architecture alignment, code quality, API and integration design, CI\/CD adoption, production readiness, and continuous improvement across delivery teams.

Key Skills

• At least 12+ years of engineering experience
• Strong communication skills, with passion for quality and attention to detail and ability to lead a team of 7 Engineers across Development & Test Automation
• Experience working across teams and driving alignment across multiple stakeholders
• Significant experience with Java (Spring Boot preferred), React JS , Next JS.
• Strong knowledge of server‑side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and API‑driven development
• Significant experience designing and building scalable RESTful APIs and microservices
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar platforms to support code generation, refactoring, test creation, debugging, documentation, and developer productivity.
• Ability to use AI coding assistants responsibly, including validating generated code, following secure coding practices, maintaining code review discipline, writing effective prompts, and protecting confidential information.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design.
• Experience building applications from concept/design → architecture → development → production deployment
• Strong understanding of design patterns and architectural approaches such as MVC, MVVM, layered architecture, microservices, and event‑driven architecture
• Experience with authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT, SSO)
• Good in cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of CI\/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Use/Integrate with Observability tools – App D, Splunk etc.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies (SQL/NoSQL – PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git)

Domain Experience (Added Advantage)

Experience working with US Insurance domain (Group Benefits, Billing, Claims, Enrolment, etc.)

Familiarity with platforms or business processes related to MetLife, Sun Life or similar insurers will be a strong advantage Understanding of regulatory, compliance, and customer experience aspects in insurance systems

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Architect and design end‑to‑end full‑stack solutions across frontend and backend systems
• Review engineers’ pull requests and mentor them on coding standards, scalability, and best practices
• Collaborate with UX/design teams to ensure consistent, intuitive, and responsive UI/UX patterns
• Design and develop scalable, secure APIs and backend services
• Build and maintain high‑performance React/Next.js applications
• Lead development of server‑side rendering and SEO‑friendly web applications
• Manage application deployments across environments including Dev, QA, UAT, and Production
• Define and implement CI\/CD pipelines for web applications
• Responsible for production support (PROD support) on a rotational/on‑demand basis, ensuring system stability and quick issue resolution
• Ensure high test coverage (unit, integration, and UI tests) and enforce quality gates.
• Ability to guide and influence test automation via AI.
• Lead the adoption of coding standards, architectural guidelines, and best practices
• Champion the adoption of AI‑assisted development practices using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, and similar platforms to improve code quality, automation, refactoring, documentation, productivity, and engineering consistency
• Evaluate and recommend new frontend/backend technologies and frameworks
• Design solutions for security, scalability, and high availability
• Work closely with cross‑functional teams to deliver complex technical initiatives
• Work shift: Work in overlapping time zones with US teams on the East coast as required

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai, Gurgaon