- Provides technical leadership to team.
- Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices across department.
- Mentors, guides and coaches engineers within their division for job performance as well as technical and leadership growth.
- Recruits , hires and onboards talent, ensuring the right mix of talent within team.
- Manages team size / design and budget.
- Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis for their products.
What You'll Bring to the Role
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 6-8 years of professional experience required.
- 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices.
- 2-5+ years of experience leading engineering teams including:
- Growing engineering skill sets in others.
- Developing future engineering leaders.
- Providing direct feedback and performance reviews.
- Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.
- Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.
- Solid understanding of the organizations primary domains and business functions.
- Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business.
- Ability to successfully communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
- Leads the team to collaboration.
Skills You Have:
Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
Adaptive Communication:
Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Business Application: Utilizes both business acumen and technology expertise to translate business requirements/capabilities into technical solutions, and applies technical knowledge of a product/platform/application to align it with a particular line of business (LOB) based on the organization's technology needs and business goals.
Coaching & Mentoring : Develops others by providing actionable, constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage, prioritize, and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.
Cross Functional Partnering & Planning:
Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.
Technical Problem Solving: Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies best practice based on experience and expertise, explores the art of possible. Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines, understands, and documents what is being solved for.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$176,000.00
Pay Range - End:
$264,000.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$193,600.00 USD - $290,400.00 USD
Structure 115:
$202,400.00 USD - $303,600.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
Engineering Practices, Systems Architecture Design, Software Development, Technical Solution Development, Technical Communication, Technical Design Documentation, Programming Languages, Cloud Technology, Production Monitoring, Deployment Strategies, Containerization, Code Analysis, Continuous Integrations, Data Solutions, Continuous Learning, Technology Strategy Development, System Architecture, Cross-Functional Partnerships, Agile Methodology, Root Cause Analysis, Automation Processes, Resource Management
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 6-8 years of professional experience
- 3-5+ years working with modern engineering tools, languages, and practices
- 2-5+ years leading engineering teams
- Experience recruiting, hiring, and onboarding engineering talent
- Experience managing team size, design, and budget
- Proven track record designing and delivering significant technology solutions
- Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods
- Ability to ensure production stability, monitoring, and perform root cause analysis
- Ability to communicate effectively between product, engineering, and business stakeholders
- Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering talent and future leaders
- Solid understanding of primary organizational domains and business functions
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
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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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We offer a flexible, hybrid approach for our employees . Teams are in the office a few days a week and work from home the others.
