Senior Software Engineer II, Platform Modernization Technology Enablement

What You’ll Do

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) organization, supporting a critical modernization initiative across the enterprise. This role sits on a newly formed engineering enablement team, where you’ll help define, build, and scale enterprise integration patterns that will be used broadly across RIS and beyond.

In this role, you’ll operate as a hands‑on engineer and technical leader, setting direction through example, designing reusable solutions and guiding other engineers through well‑defined standards and patterns.

• Design, build, and evolve enterprise integration patterns leveraging APIs, events, and messaging to support the RIS modernization effort.
• Partner closely with enterprise teams to enable scalable integrations using AWS‑native services (e.g., Event Bridge, SQS, Lambda, ECS/EKS).
• Develop reusable, composable CDK constructs that can be adopted consistently across teams.
• Provide technical direction and informal leadership, helping engineers align to standards while staying deeply hands‑on.
• Translate complex business and modernization needs into practical, repeatable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions with a strong engineering lens, understanding design intent and implementation tradeoffs.
• Help shape how integration capabilities are delivered at scale across RIS and the broader organization.

• Associate's or bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math‑related field) or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise engineering experience, with increasing scope and technical influence.
• Deep experience building solutions on AWS, with strong working knowledge of core services.
• Experience working in matrixed, highly collaborative environments, partnering across teams and disciplines.
• Informal team leadership experience, mentoring and providing strategic direction to a team.
• Excellent communication and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to work through complex technical challenges.

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise integrations using APIs, events, files, and messaging.
• Experience with Type Script or similar modern languages.
• Hands‑on experience creating Level 2 and Level 3 AWS constructs or similar reusable cloud patterns.
• Familiarity with Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) concepts and application patterns.
• Exposure to or experience with AI and agentic AI solutions in modern cloud environments.
• A track record of contributing to modernization efforts while maintaining reliability and continuity.

$130,000 - $170,000 / year

Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short‑term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.

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To support collaboration across teams, this role has an expectation to begin the workday at 7:30 a.m. Central Time.

This role offers in‑office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, or Charlotte, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

At this time, we’re not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but is not limited to: F1‑OPT, F1‑CPT, H‑1B, TN, L‑1, J‑1, etc. Nonimmigrant Workers https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants https://.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.