Senior Software Engineer (3)

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for 165 years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and groundbreaking technology to best serve our clients.

As a Senior Mainframe Software Engineer on our team you will analyze requirements and solutions, while coordinating work to ensure timely delivery. Serving a mainframe point of contact for business teams and representing your team’s companywide initiatives is a key component. You will also work with geographically distant teams presenting and helping with problem-solving. Grow your career with us!

Additional Responsibilities:

• Apply mainframe engineering standard methodologies in order to analyze, craft and develop deploy and support software solutions, and/or infrastructure implementations/upgrades.

• Develop software and systems on test driven development and continuous integration practices; establish monitoring and automation processes.

• In a mainframe environment, you move between diverse tasks with cooperation and persistence, helping to bring out the best in those around you.

Requirements:

• Experience and strength on mainframe technologies, specifically PL/I or Cobol, ChangeMan, CICS, JCL is a particular priority for this role.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• 5-7+ years of experience.

• Experience with mainframe engineering standard methodologies to include analyzing, crafting, developing, and deploying and supporting software solutions and/or infrastructure implementations/upgrades.

• Proven sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements.

• Presenting technical solutions to technical teams and non-technical teams.

• Specific technical requirements/platforms will vary (i.e. Front End, Back End, Cloud, .NET, Java, Python, etc.).

• Familiarity with public cloud and associated technologies (AWS, Azure, Containerization)

• Proven critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning

• Experience developing solutions using agile methods (JIRA is plus)

• Mentor for the team and department

• Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms

• Knowledge in VB.net, WebServices, SQL, ServiceNow, IDz will be plus

• Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business

• Manages own time to meet objectives

• Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design

• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus

• Is approachable, listens attentively, speaks candidly, and treats others respectfully

• Projects a "can-do" attitude, has bias for action and delivers results

Benefits:

• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off

• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus

• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

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