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Making a Difference
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), founded in 1951, is a premier global investment organization responsible for managing the more than $145 billion of assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), the State Investment Fund and other funds. Through SWIB’s effective and innovative investment management, WRS remains one of the only fully funded US public pensions. We are the 9th largest public pension fund in the U.S. and the 25th largest public or private pension fund in the world. SWIB is recognized by the investment industry for our teamwork and innovation. SWIB pursues sophisticated global investment strategies across the asset and risk allocation spectrum. Providers across the investment ecosystem seek to partner with SWIB.
Serving more than 663,00 teachers, public safety, and other pension participants, SWIB is a mission-driven organization. For public employees and the 1,500 Wisconsin employers who contribute on their behalf, we are a trusted partner. Our team innovates continuously to meet the challenges of an evolving investment landscape while growing and protecting the assets of the WRS.
SWIB provides a strong, steady economic pillar for the state of Wisconsin by growing the trust funds under its management, managing risk, and optimizing costs of the long term. We are a mission-driven organization and the participants we serve are our mission. By bringing a disciplined, prudent, and innovative approach to market opportunities, SWIB has been successful in generating required returns and maintaining the trust of the beneficiaries and stakeholders of the funds we oversee.
Home To Top Talent
Our high-performing staff is key to what makes us a premier investment manager. SWIB is committed to investing in talented professionals to implement our robust, sophisticated investment strategies and to keep the organization at the forefront of the investment industry. We encourage innovation and offer professional development opportunities to help staff sharpen and expand their skills. Approximately 61 percent of SWIB’s investment professionals are Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders.
About the Team
The Technology Team at SWIB supports, implements & develops industry-leading systems and platforms to support SWIB’s diverse and complex set of investment portfolios and strategies. The team at SWIB strives to be a trusted advisor and partner to the business that is valued as a critical contributor to SWIB’s continued growth and success. We effectively leverage technology to derive the maximum value from it and achieve SWIB’s business goals. We keep technology aligned with SWIB’s future direction and operate SWIB’s technology according to industry standards.
Position Overview
A Senior Full Stack Developer / Architect is a critical role in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient solutions developing the framework leveraging DevOps practices and robust release management practices. The individual will collaborate closely with the cross-functional teams, including, infrastructure, business systems analyst, administrators, developers to drive the adoption and implementation of the industry best practices in software development and deployment.
Essential activities:
Contributing to design and development team architecture practices:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system architecture and integration points.
- Streamline the software development life cycle working with development and operations teams.
- Maintain and implement code releases processes with a focus on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for efficient software/application delivery.
- Implement and manage containerization and orchestration tools for scalable and resilient application deployments.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure coding standards and best practices are followed.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies and frameworks to meet project requirements.
- Contribute to the development of prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate technical feasibility.
- Design and architect robust and scalable software solutions, considering system requirements and future growth.
Contributing to project specific assignment:
- Lead the development/architecture of key system components, providing expertise in coding and scripting.
- Analyze system requirements from stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of project goals.
- Work closely with product owners and business analysts to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to system architecture, configurations, and deployment processes.
The ideal candidate:
- 5 plus years’ experience in architecture, development, or related fields
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, investment, or related field
- Experience analyzing and building technical architecture and providing recommendations and implementation effort such as (DevOps, CI/CD, Bitbucket(Git), Cloud Migration).
- Experience in working with/understanding/implementing the various life cycles of application development, data management, extraction, loading, transformation to its applications in analysis, research, and solving problems.
- Experience developing Frontend/backend software applications.
- Experience with various programming languages such as (Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
- Financial and investment knowledge recommended but candidates in other industries are also encouraged to apply:
- Extensive knowledge in snowflake composing Oracle SQL, SQL Server queries, data modeling, and having SQL and analytics background.
- Ability to follow rigor in creating/updating documentation, maintain a process (i.e., JIRA tickets), and following technology and business best practices.
SWIB Offers:
- Competitive total cash compensation, based on AON (formerly McLagan) industry benchmarks
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Educational and training opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Challenging work in a professional environment
- Hybrid work environment
The position requires U.S. work authorization.
Pursuant to our Hybrid Remote Work Policy, all staff have the flexibility to work remotely, but are required to have a weekly presence in our offices, the frequency of which is dependent on their distance from office. Staff are not required to reside locally; however, we offer relocation reimbursement to the Dane County area per our policy.
All SWIB employees are subject to SWIB’s Ethics Policy and Personal Trade Approvals Policy. These policies include restrictions on outside business activities and employment and have limits on personal trading. You may request copies of these policies from SWIB’s talent acquisition team and any questions can be answered by SWIB’s compliance team.
