Cloud Software Engineer

Making a DifferenceThe State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), founded in 1951, is a premier global investment organization responsible for managing the more than $156 billion of assets of the fully funded Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), the State Investment Fund and other state funds. Through SWIB’s effective and innovative investment management, WRS remains one of the only fully funded US public pensions. We are the 9th largest public pension fund in the U.S. and the 25th largest public or private pension fund in the world. SWIB is recognized by the investment industry for our teamwork and innovation. SWIB pursues sophisticated global investment strategies across the asset and risk allocation spectrum. Providers across the investment ecosystem seek to partner with SWIB.Serving more than 691,000 beneficiaries of the WRS, SWIB is a mission-driven organization focused on providing a strong financial future to those who committed their careers to public service. For public employees and the 1,500 Wisconsin employers who contribute on their behalf, we are a trusted partner. Our team innovates continuously to meet the challenges of an evolving investment landscape while growing and protecting the assets of the WRS.SWIB provides a strong, steady economic pillar for the state of Wisconsin by growing the trust funds under its management, managing risk, and optimizing costs of the long term. We are a mission-driven organization and the participants we serve are our mission. By bringing a disciplined, prudent, and innovative approach to market opportunities, SWIB has been successful in generating required returns and maintaining the trust of the beneficiaries and stakeholders of the funds we oversee.Home To Top TalentOur high-performing staff is key to what makes us a premier investment manager. SWIB is committed to investing in talented professionals to implement our robust, sophisticated investment strategies and to keep the organization at the forefront of the investment industry. We encourage innovation and offer professional development opportunities to help staff sharpen and expand their skills. Approximately 61 percent of SWIB’s investment professionals are Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders.

Job Description:

Position Overview 

The Cloud Software Engineer on the Software Engineering team is responsible for developing new cloud-based services primarily targeting Azure/AWS with the primary goal to provide cloud native solutions to meet the portfolio management, trading and operations needs of SWIB’s front office. In this role the ideal candidate will be leveraging object-oriented languages like Java and Python and apply distributed computing principles to deploy containerized applications and services on Azure/AWS. 

  

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 

- Develop frontend web-based Docker solutions leveraging core SWIB services.

- These applications and services will be deployed on container and VMs. 

- Design and develop cloud native micro-services using cloud-native architecture and tools such as Kafka, Redis, GraphQL, React, and ALBs with a focus on correctness, security, accessibility, and performance.  

- Develop CI/CD pipeline build jobs on tools like Gitlab. 

- Write unit tests focusing both on integration as well as performance testing. 

- Interact with various teams to assimilate new data sources and develop new features to support new data requirements. 

- Provide L3 support for the service with respect to data quality as well as performance to all consuming applications and users. 

- Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using cloud technology best practices. 

- Apply best in class engineering principles, optimized algorithms, and data structure techniques, aligned to the Well Architected Framework. 

- Conduct code reviews of other developers and participate in git merge/pull reviews. 

- Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology stack when appropriate.