At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

What's The role?

As a Senior Software Engineer in Finance & Risk, you'll be enhancing our Sourcing & Procurement and Financial Planning & Analysis experience and helping shape the future of our financial platform. We work in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, embrace out-of-box thinking, instill engineering excellence, and focus on the highest priorities. We strive to foster safe spaces for our teams to share bold ideas, embrace experimentation and continuous learning. As a member of our engineering team, you will be finding innovative ways to develop resilient, sustainable, secure, and scalable solutions to create an exemplary experience for our user base while utilizing agile practices. You should have experience creating user interfaces and solving big data challenges with cloud-based solutions that mine data and combine it with modern analytic tools. Prior experience supporting vendor applications like IBM Planning Analytics is a plus. Bring Your Best!

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrates technical leadership to team and leads technical development and transformation
• Leads collaboration with third-party vendors
• Can solve complex problems independently with minimal supervision
• Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department.
• Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.
• Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.
• Develops new integrations with APIs and incorporate event-driven design
• Strong requirements gathering and ability to document
• Incorporates automation and unit test code quality
• Exhibits appetite for continuous learning and improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 4-5 years professional experience required
• 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices
• Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning
• Experience developing solutions using agile methods
• Mentor for the team and department
• Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms
• Strong communication skills capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
• Manages own time to meet objectives
• Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

Technical Skills:

• AWS Cloud Developer/Admin Certification
• AWS Glue
• Lambda
• Python (w PySpark & vscode)
• Kafka
• NodeJS
• Kotlin
• SQL
• AWS Aurora Postgres
• DB2 UDB
• GitHub/Terraform
• Kubernetes, Docker, SonarQube,
• Bruno / APIs
• Informatica
• PowerBI
• Airflow
• CTRL-M
• Erwin
• IBM Planning Analytics
• ServiceNow
• Snowflake

Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start: $102,060.00

Pay Range - End: $189,540.00

Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location.

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.