Asst Director Software Engineering

What You'll Do

• Provides technical leadership to team.

• Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices across department.

• Mentors, guides and coaches engineers within their division for job performance as well as technical and leadership growth.

• Recruits , hires and onboards talent, ensuring the right mix of talent within team.

• Manages team size / design and budget.

• Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis for their products.

What You'll Bring to the Role

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

• 6-8 years of professional experience required.

• 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices.

• 2-5+ years of experience leading engineering teams including:

• Growing engineering skill sets in others.

• Developing future engineering leaders.

• Providing direct feedback and performance reviews.

• Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.

• Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.

• Solid understanding of the organizations primary domains and business functions.

• Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business.

• Ability to successfully communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.

• Leads the team to collaboration.

Skills You Have:

Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results, delivery, and execution. Determines objectives, sets priorities, delegates work to direct reports, and accepts responsibility for mistakes.

Adaptive Communication:

Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.

Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.

Business Application: Utilizes both business acumen and technology expertise to translate business requirements/capabilities into technical solutions, and applies technical knowledge of a product/platform/application to align it with a particular line of business (LOB) based on the organization's technology needs and business goals.

Coaching & Mentoring : Develops others by providing actionable, constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage, prioritize, and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.

Cross Functional Partnering & Planning:

Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.

Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.

Technical Problem Solving: Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs, issues, and roadblocks within assigned scope, applies best practice based on experience and expertise, explores the art of possible. Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines, understands, and documents what is being solved for.

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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

Engineering Practices, Systems Architecture Design, Software Development, Technical Solution Development, Technical Communication, Technical Design Documentation, Programming Languages, Cloud Technology, Production Monitoring, Deployment Strategies, Containerization, Code Analysis, Continuous Integrations, Data Solutions, Continuous Learning, Technology Strategy Development, System Architecture, Cross-Functional Partnerships, Agile Methodology, Root Cause Analysis, Automation Processes, Resource Management

We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups