Senior Director Software Engineering
Senior Director Software Engineering
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
At Northwestern Mutual we are strong innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the delivery of technology and data capabilities for the Finance and Risk organization. This area is beginning a significant multiyear transformation and the leader will be responsible for driving and executing technology and data transformation within this function.
This role leads teams responsible for technology and data capabilities in Controller finance and planning analytics sourcing and procurement enterprise risk management audit and antifraud areas. This is a cross functional role where the engineering and product teams directly report into them.
The primary responsibility of this role is to lead the FRF Transformation initiative. A key component of this effort is the implementation of a new FRF Data Platform using Snowflake which aims to modernize the FRF data ecosystem. This modernization will facilitate the replacement of several outdated vendor applications including PeopleSoft the expense management system and various reporting platforms. This new platform will be crucial for the future capabilities of the Controllers Office as well as for Financial Planning Actuarial Services Enterprise Risk Management and Audit functions.
This role will work closely with business stakeholders and enterprise technology partners to understand critical data and analytical challenges and opportunities. Establish Finance and Risk Data platform by applying indepth knowledge of data domains cloud data and application technologies architectural patterns frameworks and tooling to meet Finance and Risk business areas data and analytics needs. Adept at building strong relationships across Finance and Risk business organizations and enterprise technology partners.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Vision: Sets the longterm 5year technology vision for FRF technology and data capabilities including vendor implementation and integrations across FRF business. This includes product and engineering vision roadmap to sequence and achieve incremental impactful business outcomes over time.
- Leadership: Leads the FRF technology and data strategy and its implementation to deliver FRF technology and data/analytics platform to enable FRF applications data analytics and reporting needs across FRF business.
- Organizational Savvy:Collaborates with the business to understand business drivers strategy and critical business outcomes for FRF business. Establishes businessaligned goals and leads the team to meet the objectives. Ability to channel challenging teams interpersonal conflicts and crossdepartmental political initiatives into opportunities.
- Technical leadership: Provides handson technical leadership to drive the of the FRF future state technology and data vision to delivery.
- Technical leadership: Demonstrates ability to dive deep into FRF data technology solutions data systems architecture and Data Governance tooling.
- Talent and Development:Leads the talent strategy and development of the team. Responsible for hiring coaching mentoring the group and developing cross functional engineering leaders.
- Culture: Build a highperforming culture and embraces NMs behaviors in bringing the best out of people. Leads with enterprise vision.
- Drive: Drives high performing teams and can lead with expertise energy and empathy.
- Defines the Product: Identifies and validates problems and/or opportunities for multiple user groups/scenarios across the company.
- Prioritization: Sets long term goals for both the product portfolio and team members.
- Manages budgets for optimal business results
- Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership urgency and drive and instills these behaviors within the team.
- Acts as an ambassador and representative for Northwestern Mutuals technology organization in community and technology events.
Qualifications:
- Must have 15 years of professional experience in Application development & programming across multiple languages frameworks Solution architecture implementing largescale distributed technology and data solutions (onprem and cloud) and vendor implementations customizations integrations in financial services.
- Must have 5 years of combined experience leading engineering and product teams.
- Must have 5 years of experience managing managers.
- Must have experience in leading through multiple engineering teams and their respective leads.
- Must have experience creating data strategy and dealing with challenges during its rollout to achieve business outcomes.
- Significant production experience working with DataMesh DataLake Data warehousing and cloud data technologies (Snowflake Databricks etc. in the financial services.
- Strong understanding and handson experience with various architecture concepts application design cloud data and application technologies CI/CD Containerization deployment technologies API development Microservices architecture and BI Tools. Experience with PowerBI or reporting tooling strategy is a plus
- Experience providing direct constructive feedback and conducting periodic performance reviews for the team.
- Must have a productfocused mindset and startup spirit to execute and deliver business outcomesexperience with earning trust and growing business relationships.
- Ability to learn and teach others and employs an organic approach to upskill broader organization.
- Can influence technology or business leaders on impactful issues and decisions. Takes pride in bringing people together for a higher purpose despite ambiguity and organizational boundaries.
- Strong communication skills at all levels (verbal and written). Ability to successfully communicate to technical and nontechnical audiences in varying forms and all levels of detail.
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
#LIHybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range Start:
Pay Range End:
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographicspecific 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 click here for additional information relating to locationbased pay structures.
Grow your career with a bestinclass company that puts our clients interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
If you work or would be working in California Colorado New York City Washington or outside of a Corporate location please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Full-Time
