Software Engineer

at  Northwestern Mutual

AT NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL, WE ARE STRONG, INNOVATIVE AND GROWING. WE INVEST IN OUR PEOPLE. WE CARE AND MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE.

The Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Franklin, Wisconsin will analyze insurance domain application requirements and provide development solutions. Develop and test for insurance application requirements. Release checkout and verification for newly deployed code in insurance application. Conduct code review and signing off for work done from offshore team. Provide production support for insurance domain applications. Dig deep into technology and collaborate with product, engineers, and designers in order to enhance and modernize top tier technical applications which include software to support loan, surrender, withdrawal and reinstatement processing on Life and Disability Insurance Products. Apply understanding of software life cycle and design patterns to understand the technical features being built. Participate in weekly refinement meetings. Utilize development skills with mainframe technologies including PLI, COBOL, JCL, CICS, Webservices, MQ series, java script and NodeJS. Practice Agile methodologies to implement technical application requirements. Understand the business requirements for the specific technical project, such as necessary modifications and assist with the production introduction of new products. Focus on the technologies to provide efficient solutions. Apply advanced knowledge of Software Engineering and Design principles. Apply experience with engineering best practices, including analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting software solutions and/or infrastructure implementations and upgrades. Actively participate in team code reviews and functional demonstrations. Follow Agile scum software development lifecycle. Collaborate with engineering teams and product team in fixing bugs, writing new features, maintaining documentation, participating in planning sessions and mentoring junior engineers. Collaborate in a deeply cross functional manner with engineers and business to brainstorm requirements for features and solution through difficult defects. Explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical teams and apply experience architecting the design solutions. Analyze technical solutions and provide estimates for feature implementation. Mentor and provide guidance to internal and external team members. Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days per week. Salary $108,326 - $185,250 per year.
Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related field plus 5 years of software development experience. 5 years of experience must include 5 years with each of the following: (1) Mainframe technologies including PL/1 or COBOL; (2) JCL, TSO, SAS, REXX, VSAM, and IBM debugger; (3) Mainframe DB2 database applications; (4) Changeman and mainframe scheduler tools; (5) JAVA and Node.JS; (6) MQ series; and (7) JIRA.
Interested candidates send resume to apply@northwesternmutual.com. Reference code 306 in the subject line.
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