Senior Software Engineer

Ameriprise Financial
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 1/29/2023 CLOSED ON 2/26/2023

Job Posting for Senior Software Engineer at Ameriprise Financial

Serve as a resource on software development projects and lead the development team through the design, development, documentation, testing, and modification of existing and new software applications, championing standard techniques, procedures, and criteria. Participate in architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation, and buy versus build decisions. Track and communicate development project status, dependencies, and risks and mitigation strategies to the project team and leadership. Provide technical expertise to the business.
  • Execute and/or oversee the creation of low-level design documents (including code samples/outlines) and detailed engineering specifications based on complex business, user, and non-functional (e.g., performance, reliability, balance, and controls) requirements. Write code that adheres to standards, procedures, and techniques. Maintain integrity of existing program logic according to specifications. Complete deliverables using the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Partner with the business and project team to gather requirements and fully understand project goals, and then use this information to effectively plan and lead the development process. Participate in project design walk-throughs. Evaluate interrelationships between applications and design for effective interfaces between interrelated applications/systems. Appropriately address failure scenarios in design work. Proactively review then plan and execute corrective action in response to production support issues, as required.
  • Lead the code review process to ensure development work adheres to standards and specifications, which includes peer review, as well as code review external to development team. Write and/or revise system design documentation and operations documentation to include providing required input into operation support manuals and user guides. Create and properly archive all project related documentation.
  • Ensure all code is effectively unit tested prior to being released to the quality assurance team. Resolve all unit test issues in a timely manner. Assist the quality assurance team in identifying test cases and in creating/mining test data to enable a thorough test of all development deliverables. Respond to all inquiries and issues in a timely manner as the developed code/program moves through the testing process and into production. Approve code to be put into production. 
  • Provide oversight, mentorship, and technical leadership to a development team, which consists of employees, contractors, and vendor partner resources, to ensure the timely execution of project deliverables. Provide governance oversight to ensure adherence to development strategy, standards, tools, and procedures. Guide the development teams to consistently apply appropriate development principles and standards during all phases of the development life cycle.
  • Conduct annual asset health and security assessment. Improve health of system assets by identifying enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and resource consumption. Track standards exceptions (e.g. security gaps) to ensure they are addressed in a planful and timely manner. Evaluate, troubleshoot, and lead root-cause analysis for production issues and system failures. Determine corrective action and improvements to prevent recurrence. Provide implementation/production support, as required.
  • Maintain up-to-date skills in software development technologies and a broad understanding of the business, business needs, and how applications/assets drive and support the business (understand the greater impact of assets/applications and development work). Provide expertise in the selection and implementation of development tools and best practices, as well as recommendations on priority and asset investments. Establish and maintain productive working relationships with business partners and project teams. 
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.
  • 7-10 years of experience coding and/or designing complex applications in .NET( VB and C#) 
  • 7-10 years of experience writing Queries and Stored procedures with MSSQL 
  • 7-10 years of experience with frameworks such as WCF and creating and maintaining WebServices 
  • 7-10 years of practical experience and proven success with the design and build of complex software applications. 
  • 7 years of practical experience and proven success with the design and build of complex software applications in multiple environments. 
  • Experience working and leading vendor partner (on- and off-shore) resources.
  • Experience with Life Insurance Product development or Underwriting. 
  • Experience with Tools like Version Control (GIT, CVS), Bit Bucket, Jira etc. 
  • Experience with using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ or Eclipse. 
  • Experience working on ASP.NET technology.
  • Experience with Cloud Technology (AWS/Azure etc) will be a plus.
  • 7-10 years of experience in technology and/or software development, progressing in complexity and responsibility.
  • Proven success in the design of complex, best-in-class enterprise-level software applications.
  • Superior analytical and business skills to reconcile conflicting objectives and find/design acceptable compromises within existing constraints.
  • Expert level application of technology/engineering knowledgebase to multiple and evolving programs and languages.
  • Superior technical communication skills.
  • Proven ability to successfully translate client/business needs into software designs. 
  • Proven analytical and business skills to reconcile conflicting objectives and find/design acceptable compromises within existing limitations. 
  • Understand and apply both current technical solution elements (specific tools, components, and frameworks) and abstract elements (algorithms and architectures). 
  • Effectively apply technology/engineering knowledgebase to multiple and evolving programs and languages.
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