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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 obligations 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.

As an Actuarial Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to our mainframe team, with a focus on Reinsurance and financial reporting systems. Working with calculations related to customer premiums, claim payments and reserve calculations requires a comfort level with math, eye for details, and a strong sense of prioritization. Your NM product knowledge and ability to translate technical and business terms will provide you with a strong foundation for your direct client interactions.

This is an excellent place to start within this group, will help you build a foundation of knowledge about our risk products, and from there you can either stay mainframe focused or grow into other business application areas and other technologies. Regardless, you’ll be part of a team that plays a crucial role in ensuring this great company continues to do great things for its customers.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Work with subject matter experts and technical peers to translate business needs into software engineering projects.
  • 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.
  • Multiply the talent of your teammates by sharing your experiences and learnings and fostering a positive team focused atmosphere.
  • Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department.
  • Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 4-5 years professional experience required.
  • Experience developing and supporting mainframe-based applications preferred.
  • Experience with JCL, PL/I (Cobol Ok), SAS or similar 4th generation tool ideal
  • Experience with SQL desired.
  • Experience with professional change management concepts and tools (e.g. ChangeMan, ServiceNow, Control-M)
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • 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.

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Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$100,030.00

Pay Range - End:

$185,770.00

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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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.

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