Senior Software Engineer - AI Strategy and Enterprise Architecture

Northwestern Mutual Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual Group in New York is seeking a senior engineer to lead technical strategy and build proofs of concept that validate the strategy. The role sits between engineering, architecture, and the business, shaping architecture for new systems and aligning multiple stakeholders to a common plan.

The work centers on AI systems in regulated environments: authorization, fraud controls, and governance for production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, including inside a large, regulated organization.
• Systems and integration architecture as your core expertise: APIs, identity and authorization, systems of record, integration patterns.
• Shipped applications on large language model APIs, including tool use, structured outputs, retrieval, and multi-step agents.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical strategy for the enterprise’s highest-uncertainty technology questions.
• Design reference architectures for new classes of systems, with attention to authorization and audibility in a regulated environment.
• Demonstrate business value, feasibility, and scale in every recommendation, and say plainly when an idea should stop.
• Lead coalitions across enterprise architecture, risk, fraud, information security, legal, product, and operations.

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Technical Leadership

Software Architecture

Software Engineering

Programming Language Expertise

Application Development

Systems Integration

Job description

Northwestern Mutual Group in New York is seeking a senior engineer to lead technical strategy and build proofs of concept that validate the strategy. The role sits between engineering, architecture, and the business, shaping architecture for new systems and aligning multiple stakeholders to a common plan.

The work centers on AI systems in regulated environments: authorization, fraud controls, and governance for production.