Software Engineering Manager - Investments

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated; United States; Remote; USD 107,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated seeks a Software Engineering Manager, Investment Technologies to lead agile teams building secure, scalable solutions for the Investments organization and investment accounting.

You will partner with product, operations, accounting, architecture, data, security, risk, and vendors to modernize applications, APIs, and data capabilities across front, middle, and back offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required.
• 9+ years of progressive software engineering experience required.
• 3+ years of formal people-management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers across the full employee lifecycle; set clear expectations and accountability.
• Own delivery and operational outcomes for the team’s products and services, balancing features, regulatory commitments, and reliability.
• Investment business partnership: build relationships with Investments, Operations, Accounting; understand portfolio management, settlement, valuations, risk, reporting.
• Product and Agile execution: shape roadmaps with Product Management, translate needs into engineering work in an agile model.
• Architecture and technical direction: collaborate with architects to implement target-state patterns across apps, APIs, data, and infra.
• Software engineering excellence: enforce secure coding, testing, CI/CD, IaC, observability, release management.
• Cloud, data and integration: deliver cloud-native services, data pipelines, and API-first integrations.
• Vendor ecosystem: oversee investment platforms and external providers; manage upgrades and integration strategies.
• Reliability and operations: ensure availability, monitoring, incident response, DR, and issue resolution.
• Risk, security and controls: align with SOX ITGC, SOC 1/2, data governance and privacy requirements.
• Financial and resource management: manage budgets, staffing, and vendor spend.
• Innovation: evaluate new technologies and improve productivity while adhering to security and compliance.
• Stakeholder communication: report progress and risks to engineers, business, and executives.

Skills

Leadership

Agile delivery

Cloud platforms

API design

Security practices

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Systems

Master’s degree in technology/engineering/finance or related field

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.

The Software Engineering Manager, Investment Technologies leads one or more agile engineering teams responsible for designing, delivering, operating, and continuously improving technology solutions that support RGA’s global Investments organization and investment accounting operations. This role combines people leadership, delivery accountability, engineering depth, and working knowledge of the investment lifecycle to translate business priorities into secure, scalable, resilient, and auditable technology outcomes.

The manager partners with Product Management, investment professionals, operations, accounting, architecture, data, security, risk, and vendor teams to modernize applications, workflows, APIs, integrations, and data capabilities spanning the front, middle, and back office. The role establishes a high-performing engineering culture, develops talent, manages capacity and financial commitments, and ensures teams deliver in alignment with RGA’s technology strategy, Product Delivery Operating Model, engineering standards, and regulatory obligations.

Principal Duties

• Engineering Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop software engineers across the full employee lifecycle; set clear expectations, strengthen technical capability, promote inclusion and accountability, and build succession and workforce plans aligned to the product roadmap.

• Delivery Accountability: Own predictable delivery and operational outcomes for the team’s products and services, balancing business features, regulatory commitments, platform modernization, technical debt, reliability, and production support.

• Investment Business Partnership: Develop trusted relationships with Investments, Investment Operations, and Investment Accounting leaders; understand business processes and control points across portfolio management, trading, settlement, positions, valuations, performance, risk, cash, securities accounting, reconciliation, and financial reporting.

• Product and Agile Execution: Partner with Product Management and Product Owners to shape roadmaps, refine outcomes, manage dependencies, plan capacity, and translate investment-business needs into well-defined engineering work within an agile, product-oriented operating model.

• Architecture and Technical Direction: Partner with solution, enterprise, data, cloud, and security architects to implement target-state architecture and approved patterns across applications, APIs, integration, data, and infrastructure. Ensure teams make sound design decisions without shifting architectural accountability away from designated architecture roles.

• Software Engineering Excellence: Establish and uphold standards for secure coding, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, release management, and maintainability. Remain technically close enough to delivery to evaluate designs, coach engineers, remove impediments, and make informed trade-offs.

• Cloud, Data, and Integration Delivery: Guide delivery of modern web applications, services, data pipelines, and integrations using cloud-native, serverless or containerized patterns; API-first services; event-driven, streaming, batch, and file-based integration; and modern analytical data platforms.

• Vendor Ecosystem Management: Oversee engineering around investment platforms and external providers—including order and portfolio management, investment accounting, private markets, market data, custodians, and analytics solutions—and contribute to build-versus-buy-versus-configure decisions, vendor performance, upgrades, and integration strategies.

• Reliability and Operations: Ensure production services meet expectations for availability, recoverability, performance, monitoring, incident response, problem management, and disaster recovery. Use operational metrics and root-cause analysis to improve service health and reduce recurring issues.

• Risk, Security, and Controls: Embed security, privacy, segregation of duties, data lineage, traceability, logging, evidence retention, and other control requirements into delivery. Partner with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and Finance to support SOX ITGC, SOC 1/2, model governance, and related obligations.

• Financial and Resource Management: Manage team budget, vendor spend, staffing mix, hiring, capacity, and forecasts; make transparent trade-offs and ensure resources are aligned to the highest-value business outcomes.

• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Evaluate emerging technologies—including generative AI and agentic engineering tools—and introduce them responsibly to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and investment workflows while adhering to security, data, legal, and model-risk requirements.

• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate delivery progress, operational health, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and decisions clearly to audiences ranging from engineers and business specialists to senior executives.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Required.

• Master’s degree in a relevant technology, engineering, business, finance, or quantitative discipline. Preferred.

Work Experience

• 9+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, platform engineering, data engineering, or related technology disciplines. Required.

• 3+ years of formal people-management experience leading software engineering teams, including performance management, coaching, hiring, workforce planning, and talent development. Required.

• Demonstrated accountability for delivering and operating business-critical technology products or platforms in a complex enterprise environment. Required.

• Experience supporting investments, asset management, investment accounting, capital markets, treasury, finance, or other financially oriented business capabilities. Required.

• Experience in insurance or reinsurance, an insurer general account, asset management, banking, pension, or an investment-platform provider. Preferred.

• Experience operating in an agile, product-oriented technology organization and partnering with Product Management, architecture, security, data governance, risk, and business stakeholders. Required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practices, including object-oriented and functional design, modular services, APIs, event-driven architecture, automated testing, secure software development, source control, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.

• Working fluency across modern application, data, and cloud technologies. Relevant experience may include Python, Java, C#/.NET, JavaScript or TypeScript, React-class front ends, SQL, REST or GraphQL APIs, Terraform, containers, serverless computing, workflow orchestration, and cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.

• Hands‑on understanding of AWS or a comparable public‑cloud ecosystem, including compute, containers, serverless services, eventing, identity and access management, networking, monitoring, resilience, and cost management.

• Practical knowledge of investment data and processes, including trade lifecycle, positions and transactions, security master and reference data, pricing and valuations, cash, corporate actions, performance and risk, reconciliation, and interfaces between investment operations and investment accounting.

• Understanding of front‑, middle‑, and back‑office operating models and of investment‑book and accounting‑book concepts such as IBOR and ABOR; familiarity with performance or planning books and multi‑basis accounting is beneficial.

• Knowledge of one or more asset classes such as fixed income, public equity, derivatives, structured assets, private credit, real estate, or other private markets investments.

• Ability to lead engineering teams integrating with major investment platforms, accounting systems, market‑data providers, custodians, and internal data platforms. Experience with platforms such as Aladdin, Bloomberg, SimCorp, Eagle, Clearwater, PAM‑class systems, or comparable products is beneficial but not required for every candidate.

• Understanding of financial and insurance control environments, including auditability, data lineage, access controls, change management, segregation of duties, model governance, SOX ITGC, and SOC reporting.

• Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, business value, architectural alignment, risk, quality, operational resilience, and total cost of ownership.

• Advanced leadership, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to translate between investment, accounting, risk, and engineering audiences.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and dependencies, make timely decisions with incomplete information, and create clarity for teams operating through transformation.

• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, inclusive leadership, constructive feedback, and a culture in which engineers are empowered to own outcomes.

Preferred Experience

• Insurance or reinsurance general‑account investments, including statutory, GAAP, or other multi‑basis investment accounting and reporting.

• Asset‑liability management and the interface among Investments, Finance, Risk, Treasury, and Actuarial functions.

• Private credit, private markets, structured assets, or alternative‑investment platforms and workflows.

• Large‑scale modernization of legacy investment applications, integrations, and data platforms.

• Responsible adoption of generative AI, agentic tooling, or AI‑assisted software engineering and business workflows.

• Managing a blended workforce of employees, consultants, strategic partners, and software vendors across locations or time zones.

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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:

$107,060.00 - $159,390.00 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.