Lead Software Engineer

The Lead Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Franklin, Wisconsin will work closely with engineers, product owners, and business team to shape requirements for life insurance products. Collaborate with internal engineering teams to implement insurance capabilities for new products or changes to existing products. Contribute to programming in Java, .NET, and Web technologies and best practices in developing RESTFUL services and API. Ensure production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for their products. Practice analytical and design methodologies to implement these technical requirements per Business Domain Driven Architecture standards. Serve as engineering point of contact to resolve technical impediments. Apply experience with engineering best practices, including analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting changes to all new issue online and batch jobs. Work with Node.js, JSON, IBM MQ, and Kafka. Follow Agile scum

software development lifecycle through JIRA-ALIGN and JIRA software products. Perform technology assessment of existing applications by creating a 360 analysis and developing technology roadmap and provide solution options for modernizing our systems to modern tech stack. Drive technical option analysis to migrate application from legacy platforms to modern and cloud platforms, including moving applications from VB.NET/PL1/JAVA to AWS cloud. Design and implement solutions to create rules engine such as DROOLS and rewrite business logic to make batch jobs real time. Implement holistic solutions utilizing working relationships across the enterprise. Design, organize, and execute high impact solutions across teams both within and outside their division. Establish, aggregate, and share enterprise standards and best practices. Mentor and guide junior engineers within respective division. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week. Salary $118,510 - $220,090 per year.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field plus 6 years of professional software development experience. 6 years of experience must include 5 years of experience with each of the following: (1) Designing and developing applications using .NET, Java, Java Springboot; (2) Migrating applications from on-premise data center to AWS cloud; (3) Architecting application integration patterns including event-driven and REST API based integrations using Node.js, JSON, IBM MQ, and Kafka; (4) Delivery management using Agile methodologies; (5) Providing cross-functional technical leadership across multiple delivery teams; and (6) supporting operations including incident management and problem management to stabilize applications in production environment.

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