Staff Engineer, Digital Workplace Engineering

Staff Engineer

NISA Investment Advisors, LLC (NISA) partners with world-leading organizations to design, develop, and manage highly customized, risk-controlled investment strategies across fixed income, equities, and derivatives. With $462 billion assets under management ($295 billion in physical assets and $167 billion in derivatives notional value), NISA actively manages risk for institutional investors, providing clarity to complicated challenges and stability in ever-evolving markets. At NISA, we foster a culture that supports both personal and professional growth, providing opportunities to learn from experienced professionals while contributing meaningful work from the outset.

We seek candidates who demonstrate strong quantitative and analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative mindset to join our growing teams.

The Staff Engineer is a founding member of NISA's newly established Digital Workplace Engineering team and owns the architecture and engineering of NISA's digital workplace environment. This team will lead a foundational transformation of NISA's desktop delivery model, including evaluating and architecting options for NISA's future remote access tooling and strategy. The ideal candidate combines deep end-user computing expertise with strong systems architecture skills, independent technical judgment, and will play a key role in ensuring secure, efficient, and seamless work experiences for our workforce.

Consistent with NISA's collaborative culture, this role drives outcomes by building consensus and incorporating the insights of peer engineering, security, and business teams, rather than making unilateral technology decisions.

• Exercise independent judgment and make final architectural and design recommendations while incorporating cross-functional input when evaluating, designing, and co-leading the architecture for NISA's secure remote access tooling and strategy, building consensus with Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, and business stakeholders
• Manage the deployment, patching, and upgrade lifecycle for endpoint hardware and software, exercising independent technical judgment to assess compatibility, security, and user-impact risk and to define sequencing, validation, and rollback strategy within NISA's tightly controlled, regulated workplace environment
• Administer endpoint configuration and device management policies across Microsoft Intune, Entra , and Group Policy, ensuring a consistent security posture and compliance with NISA's desktop and endpoint standards
• Monitor workplace performance and endpoint telemetry to proactively identify degradation trends, and engineer preventative improvements through tuning, automation, or platform changes
• Own the technical documentation that defines configuration baselines, deployment approaches, and operational standards for the digital workplace environment, developed in partnership with IT peers and ensuring decisions are transparent, repeatable, and audit-ready
• Serve as an engineering-level escalation point for complex, cross-system troubleshooting and root cause analysis, collaborating with peer engineering teams to translate findings into configuration changes, automation, or architectural improvements that reduce recurring risk
• Partner with cybersecurity and risk stakeholders to design and operate endpoint security and compliance controls, including patch compliance, encryption, and monitoring, and maintain audit-ready evidence of control effectiveness
• Evaluate emerging endpoint and digital workplace technologies through proof-of-concept and risk assessment, incorporating input from IT peers and business stakeholders, and recommend solutions based on security, supportability, and long-term workplace strategy
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and advanced training as the Digital Workplace Engineering team grows
• Apply department security standards consistently while communicating technical decisions and tradeoffs, and actively seeking input from business stakeholders and partners

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or…