Software Engineer III

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.

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.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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.

LI-Hybrid

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.

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.

If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.