Manager Software Engineering

Northwestern Mutual Group; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI seeks a Manager Software Engineering to lead a scrum team delivering Wealth Data assets and services. You will mentor engineers, manage backlogs, drive design discussions, and ensure production stability with on-call support.

Telecommuting is permitted two days per week. The role requires a Bachelor's in CS/EE and 4 years of software development experience, plus 3 years in Hadoop/HDFS, Cloudera, cloud storage, BI tools, and databases,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related field.
• 4 years in software development with diverse tech stack.
• 3 years of experience with Hadoop/HDFS, PySpark, Hive, Yarn; Cloudera Data Platform; cloud storage.
• 3 years of experience with BI/analytics tools (Power BI, SSRS); DB2/Oracle/MS SQL/MySQL; scripting.

Responsibilities

• Lead a scrum team; oversee technical design and solution delivery for Wealth Data assets.
• Prioritize work, estimate complex deliverables, manage projects, groom backlog, and define team metrics.
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and career development for engineers; recruit and onboard talent.

Skills

Technical leadership

Scrum/Agile

Backlog grooming

Mentoring

Code reviews

Cross-team collaboration

Recruiting & onboarding

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related field

Tools

Hadoop/HDFS/PySpark/Hive

Cloudera Data Platform

AWS S3 & Azure Storage

Informatica PowerCenter/PowerExchange/SSIS/NiFi

Power BI/SSRS

DB2/Oracle/MS SQL/MySQL

Python/SQL/UNIX/Linux Shell

Job description

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.

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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. 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.

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