Overview
Position Title: Engineering Dir.* (internal title at Securian Financial). The Director of Individual Solutions Distribution and Product Lifecycle Technology leads technology capabilities that enable the Individual Solutions business. This leader is accountable for channel partner distribution enablement, product development lifecycle, and risk ecosystem platforms to be modern, resilient, customer-centric, and aligned to drive measurable business outcomes. The role partners to drive commercial success in the individual life and annuity markets, advancing key business and technology strategies.
This role champions the technology strategy that enhances end-to-end channel partner and customer experiences, accelerates product innovation, and strengthens risk and actuarial capabilities. You will collaborate 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 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 end-to-end experiences and supporting capabilities by advocating for capability improvement aligned with business strategies, bringing innovative and external perspectives in line 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 mindset—deeply 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 escalation point 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 partnership with Reliability Engineering and Operations.
- 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 engineering teams; 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 leads—maximizing potential, aligning strengths to work, and supporting career growth.
- Owns and directs staffing 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 practices—including Agile at scale, DevOps automation, cloud utilization, and CI/CD pipelines—to 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.
Work Arrangement & Compensation
This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement. Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as part of our culture. Associates work both virtually and in offices. If you’re in commutable distance (90 minutes) you’ll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate. Our policy allows flexibility for business and personal schedules.
The Estimated Base Pay Range For This Job Is
$145,000.00 - $267,000.00
Pay may vary depending on job-related factors and individual experience, skills, knowledge, etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay can be discussed with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.
Benefits & Additional Information
Paid Time Off
- Be you. With us. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits to enhance professional growth, well-being, and work-life balance, including the following:
- Paid time off (PTO) with flexibility and additional PTO based on tenure.
- Leave programs: parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave.
- Holidays: nine company-paid holidays.
Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) : Securian’s 401(k) company contribution is tied to performance, with a target of up to 10 percent of eligible earnings and a typical target of 5 percent.
Health insurance : Medical, dental, and vision coverage for associates and eligible family members from day one.
Volunteer time & Associate Resource Groups : Volunteer paid time off, matching gift program, and groups focused on Wellness, Pride, Young Professionals, Multicultural Network, Women and Allies, Servicemember, and more.
For more information regarding benefits, please review our Benefits page. This information is not intended to explain all provisions of coverage. The plan document governs coverage.
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