Engineering Leader – Individual Solutions Technology (Hybrid)

*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Engineering Mgr.*

Position Overview

We are seeking a visionary Engineering Leader to inspire and lead teams that power Securian Financials Individual Solutions technology enabling solutions for the life insurance and annuity business lines. This leader will build future technology readiness and mature existing technology capabilities that provide secure tomorrows for our customers. This leader will oversee teams responsible for technologies that fuel our financial insights and intelligence and data reporting and capabilities for our channel partners.

In this influential role youll join a team of collaborative leaders where together we partner to fuel innovation operational excellence and value delivery. You will foster an environment where engineers thrive and you will champion both technology excellence and human growth ensuring our teams deliver scalable reliable and forward-looking solutions for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead Inspire and Develop People

• Foster an environment of trust community and inclusion where every voice matters and team members feel empowered to do their best work.

• Build a culture grounded in curiosity continuous learning and innovationencouraging experimentation seeking feedback and learning from mistakes.

• Recruit mentor and develop diverse talent by providing meaningful coaching strategic delegation and career-building opportunities; proactively plan for future talent needs and succession.

• Lead with empathy authenticity and transparencymodeling active listening open dialogue and resilience through change.

• Celebrate and recognize outcomes and behaviors that reinforce Securians Purpose and Values continuously raising the bar for performance and impact

Be a Strategic Partner

• Approach every interaction with a shared mindsetwe win togetherto strengthen trust accountability and alignment across business technology operations and data partners.

• Think and act strategically to anticipate evolving customer industry and regulatory needs; leverage the right data and insights to inform decisions and shape technology direction.

• Partner with business leaders to connect technology capabilities to outcomes that deepen customer engagement enhance field experiences and drive enterprise performance.

Delivery with Purpose

• Align execution to shared goals and strategic outcomes ensuring technology product and business roadmaps are coordinated and value-driven.

• Oversee delivery of mission-critical technology solutions supporting Individual Solutions products.

• Focus on outcomes over outputsensuring solutions are resilient secure scalable reliable and continuously improved to meet customer field and regulatory needs.

• Deliver with excellence and agility balancing speed and quality while adapting to evolving priorities.

• Embrace a continuous improvement mindset that builds future readiness across systems teams and processes.

Champion Innovation

• Encourage curiosity and challenge the status quo by exploring new ideas customer insights and industry trends to evolve our products processes and ways of working.

• Create space for teams to safely test learn and iterate using modern engineering practices automation and emerging technologies.

• Take appropriate risks and lead teams through uncertaintyhelping them stay one step ahead on the change curve and strengthening their adaptability.

Foster Operational Excellence

• Guide teams in applying modern engineering principles strong data stewardship and automation to enable sustainable scalable and high-quality delivery.

• Strengthen accountability through proactive communication consistent follow-through and disciplined execution.

• Clarify roles expectations and measurable outcomesensuring teams are aligned and accountable for delivering high-quality results and Securian-aligned behaviors.

• Monitor performance indicators adapt approaches as needs evolve and reinforce continuous improvement to enhance reliability efficiency and customer value.

Qualifications

Leadership & Competencies:

• Proven ability to communicate clearly and authentically with associates peers and senior leaders.

• Recognized as a developer of talentskilled in mentoring coaching and empowering high-performing teams.

• Highly organized and strategic able to prioritize multiple initiatives in a complex fast-paced environment.

• Strong collaborator who thrives in a matrixed organization building partnerships across technology and business functions.

• Embraces change with resilience optimism and adaptability.

Technical & Industry Knowledge

• Solid understanding of technology deliverywith experience in software development agile practices system integration and data engineering.

• Knowledge of financial services especially life insurance and individual annuity products is strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and modern engineering ecosystems is beneficial.

For more information regarding Securians benefits please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these all cases the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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