At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Summary Join the Payments team at Northwestern Mutual. We are innovating the payments ecosystem and this role will play a key part with our investment division and helping build out new payments capabilities within our payments ecosystem and investments. This is a fast growing team within NM and developing the future of NM's infrastructure and future financial products. We are looking for individuals with a passion for payments and improving the payments ecosystem for our clients and advisors.
Build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams. Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Business Expertise:Partners with peer group, business partners and product management to learn business area/domain, while continuing to learn and grow knowledge across the enterprise.
- Technical Expertise: Does independent data analysis by extracting and querying data from data sources and create data analysis artifacts. Interpret technical design/architecture/data models and work with the engineers to define the technical user stories. Should apply BDD acceptance criteria in user stories.
- Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis:Document and assess current state in a few processes, or single business area / domain. Assist with task-based work items in more complex situations.
- Gather Requirements:Responsible for fact-based requirement gathering, including all system, technical and intake requests.
- Author User Stories and/or Features:Author user stories and/or features independently with low to medium complexity while participating in some task-based work in higher complexity situations. Assist throughout the development process as needs arise.
- Test Plan Review:Assist with coordinating andreviewing test plans for smaller or non-complex efforts. Independently provide execution on testing as needed (UAT, checkouts, etc.)Work with the Test engineers to review and sign off on test results.
- Project Management: Ability to use project management principles to successfully complete and advance work
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Ability to lean on strong communication skills to influence outcomes while approaching conflict with organizational savviness
- Experience with SQL, Postman,AWSand testing frameworks is a huge plus!
- Domain expertise via previous internships or similar roles in the past.
- Certifications demonstrating mastery of role specific competencies
- Deep familiarity of agile & scrum development environments
- Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents
Skills-Proficiency Level: Adobe Analytics - Intermediate Agile Methodologies - Intermediate Atlassian JIRA - Intermediate Backlog Management - Intermediate Business Cases - Basic Continuous Improvement (CI) - Basic Daily Scrum - Intermediate Data Analysis - Intermediate Industry Benchmarking - Intermediate Microsoft Power BI - Intermediate Product Demonstrations - Basic Product Management - Intermediate Product Roadmapping - Intermediate Requirements Gathering - Intermediate Structured Query Language (SQL) - Intermediate Storytelling - Basic Technical Writing - Intermediate User Research - Intermediate Wireframing - Intermediate
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