Asst Director Software Engineering

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

• Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices across department.
• Provides technical leadership to team.
• Recruits , hires and onboards talent, ensuring the right mix of talent within team.
• Manages team size / design and budget.
• Mentors, guides and coaches engineers within their division for job performance as well as technical and leadership growth.
• Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis for their products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to successfully communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
• Providing direct feedback and performance reviews.
• 6-8 years of professional experience required
• Growing engineering skill sets in others.
• 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices - specifically experience utilizing Java/Spring to build and support enterprise services and APIs
• Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.
• Solid understanding of the organizations primary domains and business functions.
• Developing future engineering leaders.
• Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business.
• Leads the team to collaboration.
• Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.
• 2-5+ years of experience leading engineering teams including:

Skills-Proficiency Level
Agile Methodologies - Advanced
Automation Processes - Advanced
Cloud Technologies - Advanced
Code Analysis - Advanced
Containerization - Advanced
Continuous Integrations - Advanced
Continuous Learning - Advanced
Cross-Functional Partnerships - Intermediate
Data Solutions - Intermediate
Deployment Strategies - Advanced
Engineering Practices - Advanced
Production Monitoring - Intermediate
Programming Languages - Advanced
Resource Management - Intermediate
Root Cause Analysis - Advanced
Software Development - Expert
System Architecture - Advanced
Systems Architecture Design - Intermediate
Technical Communication - Advanced
Technical Design Documentation - Advanced
Technical Solution Development - Advanced
Technology Strategy Development - Intermediate
Compensation Range
Pay Range - Start:
$130,340.00
Pay Range - End
$186,200.00
Please note that this 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.
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