Sr Design Engineer

About this role

About Our Company

We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description

Provide technical expertise and direction in developing and supporting business and technology systems that run in our IBM Mainframe environment. Support complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring and implementing detailed engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.

Key Responsibilities • Independently perform highly complex assignments. • Network design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing routing and switching within campus and data center networks. • Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements. • Responsible for network performance and security monitoring in addition to being able to troubleshoot network-related issues in a logical manner. • Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth. • Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative tasks. • Collaborates with all Information Technology disciplines. • Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information. • Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed. • Perform other special project and duties as assigned. • Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades. • Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives. • Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies. • Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience. • Minimum 7-10 years of network design and engineering experience required. • Strong analytical and customer service abilities. • Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels. • Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver. • Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.

Preferred Qualifications: • Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco ASA • F5 - Big IP, LTM, GTM, ASM • DDI, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NTP • Infoblox, CloudFlare • DDoS - Akamai, AWS, Azure, CloudFlare • Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure • Automation & scripting • Routing, Switching • Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management • Packet capture and analysis - Gigastor, Wireshark

Visa Sponsorship Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).

In-Office Collaboration We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face collaboration, idea sharing, productivity and personal connection, we deliver for our stakeholders — clients, advisors, employees and shareholders. Our employees work in the office at least four (4) days per week, with flexibility to work from home one (1) day per week. Some roles may require additional in-office time or different in-office expectations, and specific requirements will be discussed during the hiring process.

Base Pay Salary

The estimated base salary for this role is $125,000 - $158,000 / year. We have a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy. Your initial total compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographical work location. In addition, most of our roles are eligible for variable pay in the form of bonus, commissions, and/or long-term incentives depending on the role. We also have a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that supports all aspects of your health and well-being, including but not limited to vacation time, sick time, 401(k), and health, dental and life insurance. Full-Time/Part-Time

Full time Exempt/Non-Exempt

Exempt Job Family Group

Technology Line of Business   

TECH Technology Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship, disability status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for individuals with disabilities. I

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