Specialist Software Engineering - AI Engineer

Job Family

IT - Development

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them.

We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com.

Job Description Summary

The Specialist Software Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and scaling intelligent AI & Actuarial systems in Hybrid Cloud Environment with strong focus on AWS Cloud Services. This role focuses on developing production-grade AI Applications, data engineering, APIs, and orchestration layers that enable advanced automation, deep research, and enterprise AI capabilities across the Finance organization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead for AI and agent-based initiatives, including scoping, estimation, and architectural design of AI & Actuarial Applications.

• Design, develop, and deploy intelligent agents usingAWS Bedrock,LangChain,Kiro,Graph DB, Strands, and related agent frameworks.

• Build andmaintainapplications using AWSagent core framework, orchestration layers, and hierarchical agent workflows to support complex reasoning and automation use cases.

• Develop secure, scalable APIs usingAWS LambdaandAPI Gatewayto expose AI and agent capabilities to downstream systems.

• Implementprompt engineeringbest practices tooptimizemodel performance, accuracy, and reliability across use cases.

• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into AI-driven solutions and agent workflows.

• Design and implementRAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)pipelinesleveragingvector databases and knowledge graphs.

• Develop,Maintainand enhanceactuarial applicationswith core focus onEC2,PySpark, AWS Glue, S3, Athena and other AWS services.

• Monitor, evaluate, andoptimizeLLM performance, cost, latency, and reliability in production environments.

• Support testing cycles byvalidatingAI outputs,identifyinggaps, and improving agent behavior through tuning and iteration.

• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, and responsible AI usage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, ora relatedfield.

• Strong experience withPython & Sparkfor building AI, data, and agent-based applications.

• Hands-on experience withAWS Bedrockand large language models (LLMs).

• Experience usingLangChain, Strands, or similar agent frameworks.

• Strong understanding ofagent core design, multi-agent systems, and orchestration patterns.

• Experience building serverless solutions usingAWS LambdaandAPI Gateway.

• Solid knowledge ofprompt & context engineeringtechniques and LLM optimization strategies.

• Experience integrating LLMs with enterprise systems via APIs.

• Build Solutions to any complex business problem using AI-Development Life Cyclemethodology.