Software Engineer III

About the role

Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 165+ years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients. To help guide the collaborative effort, we are in search of a Software Engineer III to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Northwestern Mutual's Institutional Investments organization manages complex, long-term portfolios supporting the company's insurance and financial obligations. We are seeking an engineer with exceptional SQL expertise to help drive high-quality, data-driven investment decisions.
• What You'll Bring to the Role
• Act as a SQL subject-matter expert, writing and optimizing complex queries for large-scale analytical workloads
• Design and maintain analytical data models in Snowflake using dbt
• Build investments insights data product
• Develop advanced SQL transformations using window functions, CTEs, and performance-aware patterns
• Create Streamlit-based analytics applications
• Apply AI/ML techniques to enhance investment insights
• Ensure data quality, governance, and documentation
• Assess and provide solutions to system-wide architectural problems.
• Utilize working relationships across teams within their division.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and guidelines.
• Practice Agile methodologies, analyze project requirements, and establish relationships with data owners and experts.
• Contributes to technical discussions and decision-making processes within the team.
• Translate raw data into usable business information to achieve business value.
• Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in data analytics within finance or insurance
• Expert-level SQL including complex joins, window functions, and query optimization
• Strong experience with Snowflake, dbt, and Python
• Deep understanding of data warehousing
• Excellent communication skills

Requirements

• Institutional investment experience
• Familiarity with market data, risk and performance systems
• Experience with CI/CD and analytics engineering practices
• Experience in AWS services and integrating Snowflake with cloud-native services.
• Familiarity with data governance tools like Collibra, Axon, Alation.
• Familiarity with Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau.
• Skills You'll Have
• LI-Hybrid
• Compensation Range:
• Pay Range - Start:
• $108,160.00
• Pay Range - End:
• $162,240.00
• Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
• Structure 110:
• $118,960.00 USD - $178,440.00 USD
• Structure 115:
• $124,400.00 USD - $186,600.00 USD
• We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in th

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