Software Engineer III

About the Job

Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 165+ years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients. To help guide the collaborative effort, we are in search of a Software Engineer III to join our team.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Software Engineer III who is passionate about developing solutions that meet business needs, is a quick learner, enjoys daily interaction with business and technology teams, and is comfortable learning new technologies and platforms while working in a fast-paced environment. This role is part of our Engineering Solution Delivery team that supports our Managed Investments department.

• Assess and provide solutions to system-wide architectural problems.

• Utilize working relationships across teams within their division.

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and guidelines.

• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues that may arise during the development and deployment of software projects.

• Actively contribute to the git repositories, delivering high-quality code.

• Has an evolving understanding of system-wide architectural challenges.

• Recommends efficiencies to current established development and continuous integration practices.

• Translate raw data into usable business information to achieve business value.

• Practice Agile methodologies, analyze project requirements, and establish relationships with data owners and experts.

• Collaborate across remote/virtual channels with peers, teams, and stakeholders in the organization. 

• Contributes to technical discussions and decision-making processes within the team.

• May take on a mentoring role and provide guidance and support to junior technical talent

What You'll bring to the Role

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

• 2-4 years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages, and practices with a strong focus on Snowflake development and administration.

• Demonstrate critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning.

• Demonstrate resourcefulness and flexibility: willing to plan, do, check, and adjust.

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively address and overcome challenges arising from ambiguities, devising robust solutions to ensure successful outcomes.

• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions to completion, ensuring accountability and successful project outcomes.

• Business domain knowledge in finance and/or institutional investments

• Able to communicate technical solutions to audiences with varying degrees of technical acumen.

• Experience developing solutions using agile methods and working on a geographically distributed Scrum/Agile team.

• Willingness to actively participate in hands-on development activities, contributing to the coding and implementation of solutions.

• Bring new ideas and creative problem-solving skills to the team.

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake features such as Snowpipe, Streams, Task Orchestration, ELT using Snowflake SQL, and data sharing.

• Proficiency in SQL, with the ability to write, optimize, and troubleshoot complex queries.

• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python for data processing and automation tasks

• Familiarity with dbt data transformation tool development and best practices.

• Experience in AWS services and integrating Snowflake with cloud-native services.

• Experience with DevOps tools and processes to build and deploy applications: Git version control system, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)

• Experience with front end development in modern technologies like REACT, JavaScript, Node JS, Streamlit.

• Experience with workload automation tools like Control-M and Airflow.

• Familiarity with data governance tools like Collibra, Axon, Alation.

• Familiarity with Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau.

Skills you'll have

Business Application: Utilizes both business acumen and technology expertise to translate business requirements/capabilities into technical solutions, and applies technical knowledge of a product/platform/application to align it with a particular line of business (LOB) based on the organization's technology needs and business goals.
Cloud Technology: Applies knowledge of cloud service platforms and delivery models to support, develop, adopt, secure, implement and evaluate end-to-end cloud solutions delivery and data storage instead of through traditional physical servers in a back office.

Release Management: Utilizes knowledge of leveraging CI/CD tools to automate the build and deployment of applications.

Software Development: Creates and maintains applications, frameworks, and other software components via designing, programming, testing, and bug fixing; writes and maintains source code for all processes in the software development life cycle and facilitates the automation and orchestration of disparate systems. Leverage TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) methodologies to ensure unit, integration, and end-to-end testing with appropriate level of coverage is met.
Software Problem Solving: Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies experience and expertise to apply best practices, explore the “art of possible”, and deliver blueprints for the most effective and efficient solutions. Detects and removes existing and potential errors in software code or a system that can cause it to behave unexpectedly or operate incorrectly. Leverages common software tools/debuggers and logical thinking for root causing issue.

LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$94,640.00

Pay Range - End:

$175,760.00

Geographic Specific Pay Structure:

Structure 110:

$104,090.00 USD - $193,310.00 USD

Structure 115:

$108,850.00 USD - $202,150.00 USD

We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.

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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.