Senior Software Engineering Architect — Investment Technologies

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Architect to own end-to-end solution architecture across front-, middle-, and back-office investment technologies. You will set reference architectures, drive prototyping, and mentor engineers while collaborating with enterprise architecture, security, and investment leadership.

This role requires deep buy-side domain experience and strong cloud data expertise.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years architecting and delivering platforms for buy-side investments.
• Experience across application, data, and cloud infrastructure and integration tiers.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Snowflake, and API-first design.
• Familiarity with SOX and SOC 1/2 controls.
• Ability to communicate with technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across the investment technology estate: apps, services, data, APIs, integration, and data platform.
• Define and enforce reference architecture across tiers and data flows; ensure testability and CI/CD.
• Mentor engineers; participate in PI planning; manage technical debt and target state delivery.
• Design around vendor estates (Aladdin, Bloomberg, SimCorp, etc.) and enable build-vs-buy-vs-configure decisions.
• Build on a modern AWS stack with Snowflake data platform and event-driven orchestration.
• Ensure architecture supports SOX/SOC 1/2 evidence, data lineage, logging, and audit controls.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, and investment leadership.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

SQL

Terraform

Bash

TypeScript/React

AWS

Snowflake

CI/CD

APIs

Event-driven

Tools

Aladdin

Bloomberg

SimCorp

PAM

Eagle

Clearwater

Job description

You desire impactful work.

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

About the Role

RGA is executing a multi-year modernization of its investment technologies, including applications, workflow, APIs and integration, and the investment data & analytics platform spanning the front, middle, and back office of a large account portfolio. The Senior Software Engineering Architect, Investment Technologies will own end-to-end solution architecture across the full stack.

You will set the reference architecture across application, integration, data, and infrastructure tiers, defend it in delivery, drive prototyping of complex solutions, and be accountable for what ships across multiple agile teams operating in a product-oriented disposition.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across the investment technology estate: applications, services, and data for front-, middle-, and back-office teams; APIs and services; the integration fabric; and the investment data & analytics platform, including its interfaces to multi-basis accounting.
• Define and enforce the reference architecture at every tier: canonical investment domain model, IBOR/ABOR/PBOR data flows, API-first service standards, event-driven and batch integration patterns (CDC, streaming, file), and application technology standards.
• Engage with investment engineering teams for implementations from UI to pipeline, production code quality, review designs and pull requests, and set the engineering bar for testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Architect around the vendor estate — order/portfolio management, investment accounting, private markets, market data providers, and custodians — building the applications, APIs, and automation that close the gaps vendors leave, with explicit build-vs-buy-vs-configure decisions.
• Design on a modern AWS cloud stack end to end: serverless and containerized services, eventing, workflow orchestration, and a Snowflake-based data platform with cost and controls treated as first-class architecture criteria.
• Engineer for a regulated environment: architectures must produce SOX ITGC and SOC 1/2 evidence by design, with data lineage, logging, and traceable audit controls.
• Build the architectural runway within Agile and RGA’s Product Delivery Operating Model: author enabler epics, participate in PI planning, sequence technical debt, and keep investment technologies delivery teams building against established target state.
• Mentor senior engineers and partner credibly with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, investment operations, and investment accounting leadership.

What You’ll Bring

• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years architecting and delivering platforms for buy-side investments at an asset manager, insurer general account, pension, or investment-platform vendor.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two tiers of the stack — application and services engineering, data platform engineering, cloud infrastructure and genuine working fluency across all three. Equal mastery everywhere is not expected; single-tier specialists will struggle in this seat.
• Working fluency in the investment data domain: trade lifecycle, IBOR vs. ABOR, fixed income and derivatives, private and structured assets, corporate actions, and reconciliation.
• Strong software engineering experience leveraging technologies like Python, Javascript, SQL, Terraform, bash plus modern web application experience (TypeScript/React-class front ends; REST, GraphQL, or event-driven APIs).
• Hands-on AWS experience (compute, serverless, containers, eventing, IAM) and a Snowflake-class cloud data platform, including streaming ingestion and orchestration at scale.
• Experience applying generative AI and agentic tooling to engineering delivery or building AI-assisted workflow applications.
• Direct experience integrating major investment platforms (Aladdin, Bloomberg, SimCorp, Eagle, Clearwater, PAM-class accounting systems, or similar) including where they bend and where they break.
• Experience delivering under audit: SOX, SOC 1/2, model governance, or an equivalent controls regime, with the scars to prove you design for evidence rather than retrofit it.
• Ability to tailor communication to both technical and business audiences from the individual contributor to the executive level.

Strong Pluses

• Insurance or reinsurance general-account experience, including investment accounting and statutory reporting exposure.
• Familiarity with Asset-Liability Management and the actuarial interface to investment data.
• Private credit or private markets platform experience.
• Experience operating within an Agile Methodology in a product-oriented technology organization.

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What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

We’re excited to get to know you and connect your unique skills with our global opportunities. To create a modern and seamless experience, we use artificial intelligence (AI) in parts of our preliminary screening process. This technology helps us personalize job recommendations, automate interview scheduling, evaluate candidates based solely on experience—without considering name, gender, or other personal details—and provide real-time answers through our chatbot. AI is used only during early screening and never makes hiring decisions. Your RGA recruiter will work closely with you every step of the way to ensure the process feels personal, thoughtful, and focused on you.

Compensation Range:

$150,770.00 - $224,640.00 Annual

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.