Lead Engineer

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Franklin, WI
Hybrid
121K-225K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
Start-Up Vibes with The Stability of a Fortune 100 Company.
The Role
The Lead Software Engineer will maintain and enhance the performance of the Content Factory at Northwestern Mutual. Responsibilities include addressing design issues, mentoring team members, collaborating on architectural solutions, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. The role requires a focus on delivering robust technology solutions, particularly in the financial services domain, using modern engineering practices.
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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Content Factory provides an enterprise service which creates and optionally delivers the communication for Clients, Field and HO employees based on their preferences (paper or electronic). This service is built on a contemporary cloud-based platform. To help and guide the collaborative effort, we are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to maintain and improve the Factory Health, Performance and make it robust and dependable system for the future enterprise need.
Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Proactively discovering the design/implementation issues in the Content Factory and working with other Factory leads to find the mitigation plan and fix for the future.


  • Development, Coaching, Mentoring the team members.


  • Collaborating with Principal Engineer and Other lead engineers to find the design of the solution.


  • Stablishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best approaches within department.


  • Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.


  • Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.


  • Overcome results-oriented challenges; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information


Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience


  • 6-8+ years of professional experience required


  • 5-8+ years of experience leading teams using modern engineering tools, languages, and practices.


  • Financial Services experience in delivering technology solutions for Policy Administration (New Business, Servicing, Claims) systems across Life/Annuity/DI/LTC Insurance Products is preferred.


  • Proven track record of optimally crafting and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.


  • Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.


  • Specialist for the organization in one or more technologies.


  • Recognized as the go-to specialist within the division or department.


  • Ability to optimally communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.


  • Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view


  • Strong understanding of design patterns and architecture.


  • Full Stack Engineer with well-rounded skills across front end and server-side programming including DevOps automation and experience with Cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.


Technologies/Skills:

  • Core Programming Skills - NodeJS, JavaScript, Java / Springboot, React / Redux


  • DevOps and Build Automation - GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Terraform


  • Cloud - AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2, KMS, IAM)


  • Dockers, Kubernetes


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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$123,480.00
Pay Range - End:
$229,320.00
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

  • Flexible work schedules
  • Concierge service
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Employee resource groups

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HQ: Milwaukee, WI
8,400 Employees
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Year Founded: 1857

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You’ll Like It Here

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years.

Here, you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs.

We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities, commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/

Why Work With Us

We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices, so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company, our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community. 

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