Senior Software Engineering Architect - Investment Technologies

rgare; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

RGA seeks a Senior Software Engineering Architect for Investment Technologies to own end-to-end solution architecture across front-, middle-, and back-office systems. You will shape canonical data models, API standards, and integration patterns in a modern AWS environment.

You will mentor teams, ensure high standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and IaC, and coordinate with governance, security, and investment leadership to deliver compliant, scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years delivering platforms for buy-side investments.
• Fluency across application, data, cloud infra; ability to tailor comms to technical and business audiences.
• Experience in regulated environments with SOX/SOC 1/2 and data lineage controls.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across investment technology estate and data flows.
• Define reference architecture, API standards, event-driven and batch integration patterns.
• Engage with investment engineering teams to ensure quality, testing, CI/CD and IaC.
• Architect around vendor estates and build buy vs. configure decisions.
• Design on a modern AWS/Snowflake stack with governance and audit controls.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture

Python

JavaScript

SQL

Terraform

TypeScript

React

AWS

Snowflake

CI/CD

Data platform

Aladdin / Bloomberg integration

Tools

Aladdin

Bloomberg

SimCorp

Eagle

Clearwater

PAM-class accounting systems

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.

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