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We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.\nUltimately, weappreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providingtools and solutions that make it easier to get there.\nWho We Are\nWe believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.\nToday, we’repart of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’simportant to them.\nWe’reempowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.\nWhat We Do\nTransamerica is organized intothree distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprisedof life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long termcare, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.\nTransamerica employs nearly 7,000people. It’spart of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services groupservingapproximately 23.9 million customersworldwide.*For moreinformation, visit transamerica.com.\nJob Description Summary\nThe Specialist Software Engineer sets the technical direction for the design, development, and operational hardening of business-critical backend services built on C# and the .NET Framework. This role is the organization's authority on multi-threaded Windows Service design, service stability and recovery, and the diagnosis of complex production issues. The Specialist takes ownership of inherited, high-risk services and brings them to enterprise standards for reliability, observability, recoverability, and auditability - establishing the patterns, standards, and reference designs that raise engineering quality across teams.Job Description\nResponsibilities\nSet the technical direction and lead the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operational support of business-critical Windows Services using C# and .NET Framework 4.8. \nServe as the organization's subject-matter expert for multi-threaded application design, establishing patterns and resolving the most complex issues involving Monitor, volatile, Interlocked, ManualResetEvent, synchronization, and thread lifecycle management. \nLead diagnosis and resolution of high-impact production issues involving concurrency, service stability, performance, memory usage, and resource contention; define systemic improvements that prevent recurrence. Drive issues to documented root cause rather than mitigation by restart. \nDesign and establish self-managing service patterns: startup pre-flight validation before a service reports healthy, master-orchestration and worker-thread models, heartbeat monitoring and dead-thread recovery, failure thresholds with controlled escalation, and documented, visible blocked states in place of silent hangs. \nDefine the transaction-integrity model for data entering our systems - received, persisted, then processed - with dead-letter handling and recoverable, replayable processing so that in-flight work is never lost. \nProvide technical authority for SQL Server design and performance, including execution-plan analysis, indexing strategies, isolation levels, concurrency, and deadlock prevention, detection, retry, and resolution. Establish connection-resiliency and bounded-memory data-access standards. \nEstablish data-access architecture and engineering standards using LLBLGen or comparable object-relational mapping frameworks. \nDefine deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operational practices for Windows Services using Windows Event Log, Service Control Manager, InstallUtil/ProjectInstaller, and related tooling. Design application-owned observability - queryable health, backlog and queue-depth visibility, and end-to-end traceability for L3 support. \nCreate and govern technical standards, reusable patterns, reference designs, runbooks, and documentation for complex application and service changes across multiple teams or initiatives. \nInfluence product, architecture, engineering, and support stakeholders to align technology decisions with reliability, scalability, maintainability, security, cost, and business outcomes. \nLead design and code reviews for the highest-risk work, raise engineering quality across teams, and mentor senior developers and other technical professionals. \nEvaluate and resolve ambiguous, cross-functional technical challenges with significant operational or business impact, making authoritative recommendations to technology leadership. \nAnticipate technology risks and modernization needs, define multi-year improvement strategies, and lead adoption of new tools and frameworks with minimal oversight. \n Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience. \nSix years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial, demonstrable depth in C# and the .NET Framework (4.x). This role is primarily legacy service engineering, not greenfield. \nDeep, hands-on multithreading and concurrency expertise: thread lifecycle management, synchronization primitives (Monitor, lock, volatile, Interlocked, ManualResetEvent/AutoResetEvent), and the diagnosis of deadlocks, race conditions, and resource contention. \nProduction experience building and operating Windows Services (ServiceBase, Service Control Manager, InstallUtil/ProjectInstaller, OnStart/OnStop lifecycle correctness, Windows Event Log). \nProven track record diagnosing and permanently resolving intermittent production failures - service hangs, memory exhaustion, and stability issues - with clear root-cause analysis. \nFive years of experience with SQL Server at an advanced engineering level: transactions, isolation levels, concurrency, deadlock prevention/retry/resolution, execution-plan analysis, indexing, and connection resiliency. Strong understanding of relational design techniques and philosophies (RDBMS, normalization, star/Kimball for reporting). \nExperience establishing data-access standards with LLBLGen or a comparable ORM (Entity Framework or similar). \nExpertise with core engineering tooling: Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, SQL Server Management Studio, NUnit (or comparable), and build/deployment pipelines. \nStrong design discipline: service-oriented architecture, dependency injection, OOD/OOP, and clean separation of concerns. \nAbility to operate independently from a problem statement with minimal direction, make and document sound engineering decisions, verify work against requirements, and leave code and documentation more maintainable than found. \nAttention to detail and results orientation with a strong customer and operational-reliability focus. \nAnalytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to present technical information to all levels of the organization. \nAbility to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines, both as part of a team and independently. \n Preferred Qualifications\nMaster's degree. \nKnowledge of the financial services or insurance industry (ACORD, commissions, or regulated audit requirements). \nExperience operating under formal change management and L3 production support models. \nExperience with observability tooling (AppDynamics, Splunk, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch) and a clear understanding of why application-owned instrumentation remains necessary. \nExposure to messaging and integration technologies (MQ, Kafka, API gateways, FTP/SFTP/NDM) and delivery-guarantee/dead-letter patterns. \nExposure to cloud services (AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines). \nTechnology or platform certifications (e.g., Microsoft, AWS). \nFamiliarity with REST/API development (ASP.NET Web API) and modern frontend frameworks is a plus but not central to this role. \n Working Conditions\nHybrid-Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)\nWork outside of normal business hours may be required\nModerate Travel 10 to 25%\nThis job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.\nCompensation\nThe Salary for this position generally ranges between $141,00 - $165,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.\nAdditionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.\nApplicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.\nThis is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, PA; Cedar Rapids, IA; Denver, CO). Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.\nEnterprise Technology is a global Aegon/Transamerica organization that enables the business to move quickly and deliver the best possible outcomes for clients, while keeping their information safe and secure.\nWith more than 1,000 employees across the UK, US, Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, and Hong Kong, Enterprise Technology is a diverse, global team. 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