Applications Developer - IV

Job Title : Applications Developer - IV

Location : Des Moines, IA (preferred) or Boston, MA

Pay : Competitive, based on experience

Position Overview

The Senior Developer role partners with the FP&A team and IT data team to design, build, and optimize the FP&A Forecasting and Reporting processes. This position will be accountable for developing and maintaining high-performance components, ensuring the processes scale effectively with complex calculations and large data volumes. You will be a key member of the FP&A Transformation, helping to build a calculation and forecast modeling platform to support a growing, high pace firm. You will act as a technical leader, bringing deep engineering expertise while working closely with FP&A, Investment, Actuarial and data specialists to ensure the processes deliver robust, efficient, and production-grade solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Development & Optimization

Lead the design, development, and optimization of core code base using Python and Python-based compute environments (e.g., Jupyter, VS Code, Databricks).

Partner with FP&A and external consultants to deliver performant model execution and tooling.

Establish and champion engineering standards, testing practices, and performance monitoring.

Education

Skills

Experience

Cloud ecosystem expertise (AWS, Azure, Redshift)