Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

Provide technical leadership to a team to drive application performance and availability to meet business needs, including on-call support, firefighting, monitoring, application checkouts, and deep engagement with all high priority incidents and problems

Financial Planning experience required and needed to help support proprietary applications.

- Apply customer and engineering best practices in order to analyze, design, develop, deploy and support software/monitoring solutions to drive strong performance and high availability to meet/exceed customer expectations.
- Own and drive Customer engagement workflow, including technical analysis and resolutions for escalated incidents, service requests, and problems.
- Champion for technology needs of business users, promote effective presence in business areas, proactive monitoring for issues impacting users, and drive cross-team engagement for long term resolution of issues
- Create effortless customer experience via partnering to create an effective use of Self Service, Community and Knowledge Management for users, Tier1, and our teams.
- Responsible for staying current and promoting enterprise standards, customer success and industry standards, technologies, methodologies and best practices
- Build and maintain relationships across Development, Infrastructure, Product and other Support stakeholders to deliver and improve the team's effectiveness and efficiency.
- Participate in product planning, sizing, for application features to meet business needs and user expectations. Consult on right-sizing decisions, software solutions, and services design as a primary Voice of the Customer;
- Conduct code evaluations and contribute to the innovation of software solution development for legacy functionality
- Coach and mentor employees to deliver continuous improvement, and develop their professional skills and capabilities
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field OR a significant amount of directly-related work experience
4-5 years of professional experience required
- At least 4 years of professional operations, software engineering, debugging, analysis, and software documentation experience
- Experience executing projects and efforts in variety of specific and broad SDLC methods (ie Kanban, SCRUM, waterfall, agile, etc)
- Demonstrated understanding of application support and customer service industry standards, methodologies, best practices, and tools
- Ability to explain technical solutions to technical and non-technical teams
- Possess a support and customer-centric mindset and attitude, along with a passion for learning and building on core business knowledge and technical base.
- Problem-solving skills, ability to deal with ambiguity, sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements
- Familiarity of Northwestern Mutual products, servicing, applications, systems and infrastructure.
- Experience in customer support role (tech or non-tech) / helping resolve peoples issues.
- Experience with DevOps processes and methodologies
- Experience with Agile methodologies

- Financial Planning experience and/or designations/certifications

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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