Director, Individual Solutions Technology – Distribution and Product Lifecycle Technology (Hybrid)

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

Position Summary

The Director of Individual Solutions Distribution and Product Lifecycle Technology plays a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering the technology capabilities that enable our Individual Solutions business. This leader is accountable for ensuring that our channel partner distribution enablement product development lifecycle and risk ecosystem platforms are modern resilient customer-centric and strategically aligned to drive measurable business outcomes. This business-focused technology leader will partner to drive commercial success in the individual life and annuity markets advancing key business and technology strategies.

In this role you will champion the technology strategy that enhances end-to-end channel partner and customer experiences accelerates product innovation and strengthens the risk and actuarial capabilities essential to our future success. You will collaborate closely with product managers business partners architects and engineering leaders to remove impediments advance enterprise priorities and ensure our platforms run safely securely and efficiently.

This role requires a technology-forward outcome-driven leader who excels at building high-performing teams influencing across the organization and inspiring teams to deliver meaningful value through our people our partnerships and our purpose to enable us to win in the Individual Solutions market.

Responsibilities including but not limited to

Strategic Leadership & Partnership

• Collaborates closely with product engineering and business leaders to shape business objectives align on strategic outcomes and ensure readiness to deliver technology across distribution product and risk capabilities.

• Advances the Individual Solutions technology strategic plan in close partnership with key technology and product directors and business stakeholders.

• Develops holistic approaches to enhancing the end-to-end experiences and supporting capabilities by advocating for capability improvement in alignment with business strategies and bringing innovative and external perspectives in alignment with evolving market competitive and internal landscapes.

• Creates and continually advances the long-term technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the technology platforms supporting distribution product development and risk.

• Applies a business-focused mindsetdeeply understanding customer channel partner and business partner needs to inform decisions and maximize enterprise value.

• Actively participates in business planning budgeting and portfolio management to ensure strategic alignment and responsible investment of technology resources.

• Sponsor and support enterprise projects initiatives and market-specific business cases that require technical partnership

Platform Ownership & Delivery Excellence

• Serves as the senior escalationpoint for engineering leaders and their teams across multiple capabilities platforms and cross-functional areas removing impediments addressing risks and ensuring timely issue resolution.

• Ensures platforms operate safely securely and reliably; oversees the definition of and upholds SLAs SLIs and SLOs; champions proactive monitoring resilience and quality engineering practices in close partnership with Securians Reliability Engineering and Operations team.

• Leads the design delivery and continuous improvement of customer-centric technology solutions that enhance the channel partner/advisor experience improve ease of doing business and strengthen Individual Solutions capabilities.

• Partners with enterprise architecture and shared services to evaluate technology options promote reuse drive simplification and rationalize redundant applications.

Talent Leadership & Team Development

• Builds inspires and leads high-performing leaders of people leaders of leaders and their engineeringteams; attracts top talent cultivates leadership capability and fosters an inclusive environment where individuals do their best work.

• Coaches and develops team members engineering managers and platform leadsmaximizing potential aligning strengths to work and supporting career growth.

• Owns and directs taffing strategies including effective use of global delivery partners vendors contingent workers and managed services to optimize capacity capability and cost efficiency.

Innovation Continuous Improvement & Modern Engineering

• Champions the adoption of modern engineering practicesincluding Agile at scale DevOps automation cloud utilization and CI/CD pipelinesto accelerate delivery and increase reliability.

• Encourages experimentation continuous learning and the use of emerging technologies to advance business outcomes technical health and platform performance.

• Creates a vision for secure and privacy-by-design architecture across all platform capabilities ensuring consistent adherence to enterprise technology principles and standards.

Qualifications

Required

• Significant experience leading technology teams or platforms within insurance financial services or adjacent regulated industries particularly those supporting distribution product development or risk capabilities.

• Demonstrated success developing and executing technical strategy across multiple teams in alignment with business outcomes and enterprise priorities.

• Expertise in modern delivery practices including Agile DevOps automation cloud engineering proactive monitoring and continuous improvement.

• Strong interpersonal communication and facilitation skills with the ability to influence negotiate and build trusting relationships across business and technology teams.

• Experience leading through change with a transformational leadership mindset focused on outcomes innovation and empowerment.

• Strong technical acumen and the ability to guide decisions related to platform selection integration security performance and scalability.

• Track record of modernizing and simplifying technology and data environments with a capability-based view and maximizing reuse.

• Experience with both third-party or SaaS platforms and homegrown solutions with proven understanding of how they integrate into broader ecosystems.

• Ability to manage multiple complex priorities and navigate ambiguity.

• Commitment to continuous learning and awareness of industry trends emerging technologies and evolving delivery practices.

Preferred

• Experience partnering with actuarial underwriting product innovation or distribution strategy teams.

• Knowledge of strategic planning value-based delivery discovery practices and metrics-driven prioritization.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If youre in a commutable distance (90 minutes) youll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

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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