Organization Summary

The Engineering Shared Services (ESS) vision as an integral part of NM’s software delivery ecosystem though standardization, simplification and automation. Helping teams accelerate delivery by solving problems that matter through innovative shared technology solutions and keeping NM’s delivery running smoothly and ensure our teams are best positioned to do their jobs!

About the API Software Transformation Lead role:

In this role, be a champion for new Enterprise Architecture standards by engaging with the internal software engineering community.

• Partner with internal software development teams to implement well-rounded solutions using working relationships across the enterprise.
• Design, organize, and implement high impact solutions across teams both within and outside their division.
• Establish, aggregate, and share enterprise standards and standard methodologies.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers within respective division.
• Ensure production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is performed for their products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 6-8 years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 5-8+ years of experience leading teams using modern engineering tools, multiple programming languages, and practices; primarily Java and JavaScript.
• Exposure to containerization using Kubernetes/docker with exposure to GitOps.
• Direct experience with the end-to-end API lifecycle management, from build to deprecation/retirement.
• Experience with Trunk based development and DevOps deployment using Feature Flags
• Understanding of database performance issues and resolution.
• Nice to have: Experience migrating databases to AWS using DMS.

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$121,030.00

$224,770.00

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 click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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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