Northwestern Mutual · 3 days ago
Senior Director, Product & Engineering - Finance & Risk
Milwaukee, WI
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$172K/yr - $366K/yr
15+ years expNorthwestern Mutual is seeking a Senior Director of Digital Product Engineering to lead high-performing teams in technology delivery for the Finance and Risk function. This role involves maintaining a strategic roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional leaders, and driving technology and data transformation initiatives within the organization.
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Responsibilities
Sets the long-term 5-year technology vision for Finance and Risk technology and data capabilities including vendor implementation and integrations across business
Leads the Finance and Risk technology and its implementation to deliver Finance and Risk technology and data/analytics platform to enable applications, data, analytics, and reporting needs across FRF business
Collaborates with the business to understand business drivers, strategy, and critical business outcomes for the Finance and Risk business
Establishes business-aligned goals and leads the team to meet the objectives
Ability to channel challenging teams, interpersonal conflicts, and cross-departmental political initiatives into opportunities
Provides hands-on technical leadership to drive the execution of the future state technology and data vision to delivery
Demonstrates ability to dive deep into Finance and Risk data technology solutions, data systems architecture, and Data Governance tooling
Leads the talent strategy and development of the team
Responsible for hiring, coaching, mentoring the group, and developing cross functional engineering leaders
Build a high-performing culture and embraces NM's behaviors in bringing the best out of people
Drives high performing teams and can lead with expertise, energy and empathy
Identifies and validates problems and/or opportunities for multiple user groups/scenarios across the company
Sets long term goals for both the product portfolio and team members
Manages budgets for optimal business results
Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive and instills these behaviors within the team
Acts as an ambassador and representative for Northwestern Mutual's technology organization in community and technology events
Qualification
Required
Must have 15+ years of professional experience in Application development & programming across multiple languages, frameworks, Solution architecture, implementing large-scale distributed technology and data solutions (on-prem and cloud), and vendor implementations, customizations, integrations in financial services
Business Acumen: Has a deep understanding of the Finance and Risk areas not limited to technology
Must have experience in leading through multiple engineering teams and their respective leads
Experience in ERP and EPM implementations and key industry platforms in this space (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, PeopleSoft etc.)
Must have 5+ years of combined experience leading engineering and product teams
Must have 5+ years of experience managing managers
Must have a product-focused mindset and start-up spirit to execute and deliver business outcomes—experience with earning trust and growing business relationships
Must have experience creating data strategy and dealing with challenges during its rollout to achieve business outcomes
Significant production experience working with DataMesh, DataLake, Data warehousing, and cloud data technologies (Snowflake, Databricks etc.) in the financial services
Strong understanding and hands-on experience with various architecture concepts, application design, cloud data and application technologies, CI/CD, Containerization, deployment technologies, API development, Microservices architecture, and BI Tools
Experience providing direct constructive feedback and conducting periodic performance reviews for the team
Ability to learn and teach others and employs an organic approach to upskill broader organization
Can influence technology or business leaders on impactful issues and decisions. Takes pride in bringing people together for a higher purpose despite ambiguity and organizational boundaries
Strong communication skills at all levels (verbal and written). Ability to successfully communicate to technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and all levels of detail
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Preferred
Experience with PowerBI or reporting tooling strategy is a plus
Benefits
Flexible work schedules
Concierge service
Comprehensive benefits
Employee resource groups
Company
Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to millions with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, and investments.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Timothy Gerend
Chairman, President and CEO
Phil Odella
COO/CFO
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