Manager Software Engineering

About the role

Job Description: The Manager Software Engineering at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI will lead a scrum team, providing technical design and solution delivery for Wealth Data Application. Act as a technical and people leader for a group of talented software engineers who are evolving and delivering Data assets and services for the Wealth organization. Prioritize work, estimate complex deliverables, manage projects, groom backlog, drive, and define team-level metrics, remove impediments, advance urgent issues, review code, and manage interactions with other development teams within Wealth space. Mentor, guide, and coach engineers within division for technical and leadership growth. Spend time recruiting, and onboarding talent within respective department, ensuring right mix of talent within team. Provide resources with feedback and career coaching. Work with direct reports on development and career planning. Support of existing wealth data systems within Northwestern Mutual through on-call support. Ensure production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis for Wealth Data assets. Work with product team, to troubleshoot usage problems, or shape feature requirements. Participate and assist with design discussions. Assess technical solutions being provided by engineers. Ensure best practices and standards are followed. Participate in code reviews as needed. Design and develop integrated data solutions, modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating business needs across several wealth applications. Telecommuting permitted 2 days per week. Salary $168,792- $234,000 per year.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a related field and 4 years of experience as a software developer or related occupation. Experience must include 3 years of experience with each of the following: (1) Hadoop including HDFS, ABFS, PySpark, Hive, and Yarn; (2) Cloudera Data Platform, AWS S3, and Azure Storage; (3) Informatica PowerCenter, Power Exchange, SSIS, and Apache NiFi; (4) Business Objects, SSRS, and Power BI; (5) DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL; and (6) Python, SQL, UNIX/Linux Shell Scripting, and HQL. Must also have two years of technical leadership experience.

Interested candidates send resume to [email protected]. Reference code 526 in the subject line.

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