Senior Software Engineering Architect — Investment Technologies
AI summary of the role
RGA is modernizing its investment technology estate across front, middle, and back office.
What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end solution architecture across the investment technology estate, including applications, services, data, APIs, and integration fabric.
- Define and enforce reference architecture: canonical investment domain model, IBOR/ABOR/PBOR flows, API-first standards, event-driven and batch integration patterns.
- Engage with engineering teams on implementation quality, design reviews, and CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code standards.
- Architect around vendor estate (order/portfolio management, accounting, market data) with explicit build-vs-buy-vs-configure decisions.
What you’ll bring
- 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years architecting buy-side investment platforms.
- Depth in at least two of: application/services, data platform, cloud infrastructure; fluency across all three.
- Working fluency in investment data domain: trade lifecycle, IBOR vs ABOR, fixed income, derivatives, private assets, corporate actions, reconciliation.
- Hands-on experience with Python, JavaScript, SQL, Terraform, bash, and modern web (TypeScript/React, REST/GraphQL/event-driven APIs).
Technologies
AWS · Snowflake · Python · JavaScript · SQL · Terraform · TypeScript · React · GraphQL · REST · event-driven APIs · CI/CD
Source and classification
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You desire impactful work. You’re RGA ready RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all. About the Role RGA is executing a multi-year modernization of its investment technologies, including applications, workflow, APIs and integration, and the investment data & analytics platform spanning the front, middle, and back office of a large account portfolio. The Senior Software Engineering Architect, Investment Technologies will own end-to-end solution architecture across the full stack. You will set the reference
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You desire impactful work. You’re RGA ready RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all. About the Role RGA is executing a multi-year modernization of its investment technologies, including applications, workflow, APIs and integration, and the investment data & analytics platform spanning the front, middle, and back office of a large account portfolio. The Senior Software Engineering Architect, Investment Technologies will own end-to-end solution architecture across the full stack. You will set the reference architecture across application, integration, data, and infrastructure tiers, defend it in delivery, drive prototyping of complex solutions, and be accountable for what ships across multiple agile teams operating in a product-oriented disposition. What You’ll Do Own end-to-end solution architecture across the investment technology estate: applications, services, and data for front-, middle-, and back-office teams; APIs and services; the integration fabric; and the investment data & analytics pla [... source excerpt omitted ...] ven and batch integration patterns (CDC, streaming, file), and application technology standards. Engage with investment engineering teams for implementations from UI to pipeline, production code quality, review designs and pull requests, and set the engineering bar for testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code. Architect around the vendor estate — order/portfolio management, investment accounting, private markets, market data providers, and custodians — building the applications, APIs, and automation that close the gaps vendors leave, with explicit build-vs-buy-vs-configure decisions. Design on a modern AWS cloud stack end to end: serverless and containerized ser
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