At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What's the role?
As the Digital Workplace team at Northwestern Mutual, we envision a work environment with digital capabilities that are a catalyst to realizing our company strategy while aligning with experiences that our workforce finds most valuable in their personal lives.
As Assistant Director for Search, you will lead a team of Engineers, product owners and consultants focused on driving strategic alignment, design, insights, analytics and user experience in modernizing our Search platform utilized by critical business applications across the Enterprise.
The ideal candidate will work closely with internal department and cross organizational leadership, engineering, product teams, and key strategic stakeholders in working with direct team to solve problems and ensure desired outcomes for user experience.
Successful candidate will also have background in managing external vendor relationships, agile mindset and familiarity with CMS (Content Management System).
Responsibilities:

• Set a compelling vision for The team, measure and adapt to results through quantitative and qualitative measures of value, outcome, velocity, engagement, and satisfaction.
• Develop and grow The team through training, mentoring, and coaching in your team and across The technology organization.
• Clarify objectives and remove obstacles and barriers that prevent The team and organization from achieving results.
• Develop, implement, and promote agile / lean best practice standards including The use of tools and automation.
• Active participant in setting Standards and engineering best practices for an engineering domain.
• Active participant in setting technical roadmap and technical vision for a broad set of technology disciplines.

Bring your best! What this role needs:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 6-8 years professional experience
• You have theoretical and logical understanding of specific domains your reports work in, and ability to articulate engineering tradeoffs across team and to senior leaders.
• You bring together the work of many teams and individuals into a cohesive, achievable plan that aligns with goals and deadlines.
• You break down complex problems into smaller, more manageable ones, and help others to do the same.
• You are coach and mentor less experienced engineers, along with assigning stretch assignments, and develop development plans with reports.
• Experience planning, organizing and managing activities of others as direct reports or project teams
• Experience managing engineers
• Experience with engineering full software development lifecycle best practices including requirement gathering, design, testing, architecture, security, compliance, implementation and support
• Experience with modern infrastructure, hybrid infrastructure, PaaS, SaaS, and specific and specialized experience in technologies within domain accountabilities.
• Experience with modern engineering best practices, SLA adherence, service management, test driven development etc.
• Experience working with all or most of the following technologies: OS, Virtualization, Databases, Network OSI, various scripting languages , Identity Management systems
• Experience in integrating cloud platforms with on-prem infrastructure to enable business functionality
• Hands on experience in scripting, performance tuning, engineering development and applied architecture
• Understand base technologies required for specific domain, and more generalized industry trends, CICD, automation, and scripting.
• Hands on experience within a domain or as a software engineer.
• Experience with engineering full software development lifecycle best practices including requirement gathering, design, testing, architecture, security, compliance, implementation and support
• Experience with modern infrastructure, hybrid infrastructure, PaaS, SaaS, and specific and specialized experience in technologies within domain accountabilities.
• Experience with multiple delivery methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.

Beyond base salary, NM offers the following benefits; pension, 401k, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, FREE lunch, annual bonus opportunity, and much more!
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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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