Sr Software Engineer

ameriprise; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ameriprise is seeking an experienced software development leader in the Boston area to guide design, development, testing, and deployment of applications. You will mentor a team, enforce SDLC standards, and drive architecture decisions while coordinating with business units and QA.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding oversight, code reviews, and producing maintainable documentation, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security across systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience required.
• 7+ years of experience coding and/or designing in multiple progra

Responsibilities

• Execute and oversee the creation of low level design documents (including code samples/outlines) and detailed engineering specifications based on complex business, user, and non-functional requirements.
• Write code that adheres to standards, procedures, and techniques. Maintain integrity of existing program logic according to specifications.
• Plan and lead the development process with business and project teams; participate in design walk-throughs and plan interfaces between interrelated applications.
• Lead the code review process to ensure adherence to standards and specifications; create and archive project documentation.
• Ensure code is unit tested prior to QA; assist QA in test data and scenarios; approve code for production.
• Provide oversight, mentorship, and technical leadership to a development team; govern adherence to development strategy and standards.
• Conduct asset health and security assessment; identify enhancements and track security gaps to remediation.

Skills

Team leadership

Code review

SDLC

Architecture design

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

About Our Company

We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description

Serve as a resource on software development projects and lead the development team through the design, development, documentation, testing, and modification of existing and new software applications, championing standard techniques, procedures, and criteria. Participate in architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation, and buy versus build decisions. Track and communicate development project status, dependencies, and risks and mitigation strategies to the project team and leadership. Provide technical expertise to the business.

Key Responsibilities

Execute and/or oversee the creation of low level design documents (including code samples/outlines) and detailed engineering specifications based on complex business, user, and non-functional (e.g. performance, reliability, balance, and controls) requirements. Write code that adheres to standards, procedures, and techniques. Maintain integrity of existing program logic according to specifications. Complete deliverables using the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC).

Partner with the business and project team to gather requirements and fully understand project goals, and then use this information to effectively plan and lead the development process. Participate in project design walk-throughs. Evaluate interrelationships between applications and design for effective interfaces between interrelated applications/systems. Appropriately address failure scenarios in design work. Proactively review then plan and execute corrective action in response to production support issues, as required.

Lead the code review process to ensure development work adheres to standards and specifications, which includes peer review, as well as code review external to development team. Write and/or revise system design documentation and operations documentation to include providing required input into operation support manuals and user guides. Create and properly archive all project related documentation.

Ensure all code is effectively unit tested prior to being released to the quality assurance team. Resolve all unit test issues in a timely manner. Assist the quality assurance team in identifying test cases and in creating/mining test data to enable a thorough test of all development deliverables. Respond to all inquiries and issues in a timely manner as the developed code/program moves through the testing process and into production. Approve code to be put into production.

Provide oversight, mentorship, and technical leadership to a development team, which consists of employees, contractors, and vendor partner resources, to ensure the timely execution of project deliverables. Provide governance oversight to ensure adherence to development strategy, standards, tools, and procedures. Guide the development teams to consistently apply appropriate development principles and standards during all phases of the development life-cycle.

Conduct annual asset health and security assessment. Improve health of system assets by identifying enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and resource consumption. Track standards exceptions (e.g. security gaps) to ensure they are addressed in a planful and timely manner. Evaluate, troubleshoot, and lead root-cause analysis for production issues and system failures. Determine corrective action and improvements to prevent recurrence. Provide implementation/production support, as required.

Maintain up-to-date skills in software development technologies and a broad understanding of the business, business needs, and how applications/assets drive and support the business (understand the greater impact of assets/applications and development work). Provide expertise in the selection and implementation of development tools and best practices, as well as recommendations on priority and asset investments. Establish and maintain productive working relationships with business partners and project teams.

Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree or equivalent (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.

7-10 years of relevant experience required.

7+ years of experience coding and/or designing in multiple progra