Actuarial Senior Software Engineer

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What's the role?
The Actuarial Software Engineering team at Northwestern Mutual is responsible for creating and improving systems that ensure the company can meet its financial promises to its customers, employees, and field representatives. These systems are financial in nature, centered on risk products and benefit plans, and based on the professional knowledge of the actuary. The applications are varied, generally are mathematical in nature, and involve working in close partnerships with technical peers and actuarial business experts. The assignment will be on a team developing C and Pl/1 Routines. These routines produce the rates and values used across the enterprise to issue and administer risk products.
The Rates and Values team, within the actuarial systems space, plays a crucial role in ensuring this great company continues to do great things for its policyowners. Your purpose will be clear due to close partnership with clients and direct lines to business outcomes. To excel in this role, you need to be passionate about software craftmanship and eager to understand the insurance business. You should be comfortable maintaining applications with established code bases and willing to explore modern approaches to tackle new challenges. A competence in math, a computer science background, innovative mindset, and strong organizational and technical skills would elevate this role.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work with subject matter experts and technical peers to translate complex mathematical business needs into Software Engineering applications.
• Leverage technical experience to develop, create, and implement software changes that meet business needs.
• Provide guidance and leadership to less experienced Software Engineers.
• Strive to continually improve our core systems, with a focus on delivering excellence to the business experts who rely on your work.
• Demonstrate technical leadership to team.
• Establish, aggregate, and share engineering best practices to analyze and develop solutions.
• Develop software using established development and continuous integration practices.
• Utilize established monitoring and automation processes.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:
Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4-5 years professional experience in C or other programming language required.
• Familiarity using continuous integration and deployment concepts.
• Strong technical skills with a continuous growth mindset and the desire to learn.
• Proven ability to translate mathematical specs into code.
• Capable of communicating with technical peers and business side experts cross-functionally.
• Interest in understanding the insurance business.
• Able to mentor new team members.

Desired Skills

• Insurance product knowledge and understanding of NM's actuarial systems area strongly desired.
• Mainframe PL1 experience.
• Computer science or math background.

Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$97,930.00
Pay Range - End:
$181,870.00
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.
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