Software Engineer III

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

In Managed Investments we are reinventing ourselves, reinforcing our core values while embracing modern practices and groundbreaking technologies, to enable our business to grow at an outstanding rate. We are looking for phenomenal people to help drive this transformation and shape our future. We are looking for a Software Engineer III to join our team. Our team is responsible for developing and supporting the investment data platform to provide streamlined and governed access to trusted data. The team handles integration to third-party vendors and/or internal data stores as needed so that the back-end implementation is not exposed to consumers. Technologies used by the team include Snowflake, DBT, AWS, Kubernetes.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

1. Build and maintain an investment data platform running on Snowflake data cloud
2. Enable cloud modernization at scale by developing, releasing, and maintaining repeatable patterns
3. Apply engineering best practices to analyze, design, develop, deploy and support software solutions.
4. Recommends efficiencies to current established development and continuous integration practices.
5. Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues that may arise during the development and deployment of software projects.
6. Conducts thorough code evaluation to ensure compliance with established coding standards and best practices
7. Has an evolving understanding of system-wide architectural challenges.
8. Contributes to technical discussions and decision-making processes within the team.
9. May take on a mentoring role and provide guidance and support to junior technical talent.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent degree or experience
2. 2-4 years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices
3. 2-4 years of professional software engineering, debugging, analysis, and software documentation experience
4. Strong understanding of engineering principles, design and best practices.
5. Intermediate proficiency in one or more web development languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, React)
6. Basic understanding of SQL
7. Intermediate understanding of public cloud and associated technologies (AWS, Docker, K8s, Containerization).
8. Intermediate understanding of data quality and data concepts
9. Basic understanding of data integration patterns and tooling
10. Clearly articulate design choices
11. Evolving analytical and critical thinking skills.
12. Experience with Agile methodologies/DevOps environment
13. Self-motivated and able to independently execute a plan

Preferred Qualifications

1. Production experience with Snowflake and DBT or other cloud data technologies
2. Production experience or familiarity with AWS serverless patterns, CI/CD using GitLab, K8s, and deployment using terraform concepts
3. Understanding of investment management business domain is a plus

Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start: $90,930.00

Pay Range - End: $168,870.00

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. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. 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. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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