Software Engineer

About Our Company

We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description

Provide technical expertise and leadership to a BI and Analytics team. Own the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and AI-driven products supporting the North America Intermediary Distribution business.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and leadership to a team of highly technical employees.
• Develop and maintain a high performing team through effective hiring, coaching, rigorous performance/talent management processes, and vendor partner management.
• Foster a collaborative, success-oriented team environment where resources are empowered and accountable.
• Provide work direction, delegation, and prioritization to team.
• Ensure compliance with company's policies, processes and procedures.
• Through partnership with leadership and effective management of team(s) (direct reports and contractors/vendors), deliver robust technical solutions, ensure that service level commitments and project time lines are maintained.
• Ensure successful project design, configuration, performance, implementation and outstanding service delivery.
• Oversee the technical correctness and completeness of artifacts/documentation associated with engineering designs; pro-actively identify and resolve issues/problems.
• Verify that build activities are complete per the approved engineering diagrams. Redirect build activities as necessary.
• Oversee the hand-off of design solutions and confirm testing and validation are executed prior to the final release of new and upgraded technologies.
• Provide thought leadership and significant influence to the continuous improvement of processes, policies and best practices to optimize performance and availability of technologies.
• Drive and develop consistent technical build, implementation and support processes. Verify designs are validated and adhere to defined standards. Ensure ongoing improvements align with standard process/service management principles and technology Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methods.
• Evaluate, troubleshoot and participate in root-cause analysis of development and test environment issues within technical area(s) of expertise. Once corrective action is identified, lead respective team to implement changes/improvements in designs/builds as necessary to prevent recurrence.
• Define, track and measure overall department performance and metrics. Complete and distribute (and/or oversee activity) applicable reports, models, status updates, statistics, etc., to technology leadership as required.
• Provide proper escalation to leadership for issues/problems as necessary.
• Participate in the organization's strategic and financial planning process.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.
• Effectively present the value proposition of business-appropriate emerging technologies to technology leadership.
• Gain and maintain a broad understanding of business, business needs, and how assigned technologies/domain drive and support the business.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience required.
• Deep and broad technical background with 7-10+ years experience of progressive scope/impact/responsibility (including both hands-on and leadership roles) working with relevant enterprise technologies.
• 3-5+ years of project management experience with a proven track record for delivering projects and driving execution.
• Demonstrated experience and success in influencing, leading, and coaching without direct leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated superior reasoning and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in the Asset Management or Financial Services industry with a strong understanding of investment products, sales and redemptions, AUM etc.
• Advanced proficiency in Python for data engineering, analytics, automation, and data quality validation.
• Hands-on experience with Tableau for enterprise reporting, dashboard development, semantic layer design, and self-service analytics enablement.
• Strong experience designing and developing solutions on modern cloud data platforms, including Snowflake and AWS Redshift.
• Deep expertise in data modeling, dimensional modeling, semantic data layers, and analytics-ready data structures.
• Proven ability to design and implement complex data transformation pipelines, integrating data from multiple internal and external sources.
• Experience with Master Data Management (MDM), reference data management, data governance, metadata management, and data lineage practices.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, including data warehousing, lakehouse concepts, ETL/ELT frameworks, and real-time data processing.
• Experience working with cloud-native AWS services such as S3, Glue Catalog, Lambda, Athena and IAM.
• Familiarity with data catalog and governance platforms such as Alation, Collibra, or Informatica.
• Experience optimizing SQL workloads and performance tuning across large-scale analytical datasets.
• Knowledge of data quality monitoring, reconciliation processes, and automated testing frameworks for analytical data platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of direct people-management experience to include performance management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical information to non-technical audiences and vice versa.
• Experience working in a multi-vendor (outsourced) environment.
• Ability to negotiate or persuade others in complex situations.

Pay

The estimated base salary for this role is $107,000 - $147,100 a year. We have a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy. Your initial total compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographical work location. In addition, most of our roles are eligible for variable pay in the form of bonus, commissions, and/or long-term incentives depending on the role.

Benefits

We have a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that supports all aspects of your health and well-being, including but not limited to vacation time, sick time, 401(k), and health, dental and life insurances.

Schedule

Full time / Exempt