Associate Director, Platform Delivery, Execution and Transformations - National Life Group : Job Details

Associate Director, Platforms Transformations Applications Development

Company Summary

Come join one of America's fastest growing insurance companies with a stable history of 175 years. At National Life Group (“NLG”), we offer a flexible work environment with opportunity for growth. As a mission-driven business, our promises are as important as the products we sell. We encourage our associates to live our values: Do Good. Be Good. Make Good.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we sell. Our cause is also to make the world a better place through grants from our charitable foundation, paid time for our employees to volunteer, environmentally sustainable and healthy work sites, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We invite you to explore what we have to offer and to join our cause.

Role Summary

Our mission is to revolutionize the way our business manages critical functions via systems, and we need a visionary Leader to spearhead our platform transformations. If you're passionate about technology and have a knack for partnering with business leadership and enjoy working in dynamic environments, we want you on our team!

The Associate Director, Platform Transformations, Applications Development partners with other IT resources and the Business Operations teams to optimize technology outcomes. Success for the Technical Leader starts with building and maintaining strong relationships with all other counterparties. A deep understanding of business and IT processes supports proposing and driving changes that deliver value for business partners at National Life Group. This role involves leading a team, collaborating with IT and business operations, and ensuring that the critical L&A systems such as New Business acquisitions, Policy Administrations systems, Investments, Finance etc.

This role essentially is to apply thought leadership to execute and work with business to realize more efficient way of conducting business through new more efficient systems. Discover the current states of business processes and systems to frame future states for new business process in new platforms.

All about transformational leadership and acting as a change agent while making a difference for our IT & Business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management & collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to ensure solutions satisfy business requirements and are of the highest quality. Utilize strong emotional and social intelligence to build relationships across the enterprise. Communicate effectively, and with an appropriate level of detail, to business and IT resources.
• Flexibility: Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, contributing to operational and transformational efforts.
• Come up with logical solutions: Provide for complex business and IT issues, working closely with vendors and internal teams to resolve problems during transformations and when change is implemented.
• Knowledge of SDLC & IT Value Chain in Life & Annuity Business: Understand all aspects of value chains in IT example:
  • UI/UX, Process Flows
  • How UI/UX interacts with Logical and Physical entities
  • APIs, Batch
  • Data Supply chains and integrity
  • Compliance and security needs
  • Systems Configuration and Change Management

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in leading large-scale change and transformations in Life & Annuities Business
• Delivery Management, Product management and Change management experience during Insurance transformations
• Exposure to working with Business Process People and IT Engineers, and PMO

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Project Management.
• Experience with Insurance systems, with exposure to product set up.
• Experience in insurance, particularly Life & Annuity.
• Strong background in technical delivery management.
• 15+ Years of experience in leading change in Insurance industry.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family's specific needs.