The Head of Savings & Investments Technology will provide leadership and direction in the design and development of integrated processes, applications, security, data, and technology solutions to address business challenges and meet Transamerica’s strategic objectives. This role will lead our Savings & Investments Technology team which oversees and supports the applications and tools for all of Transamerica’s retirement plan business. This includes defined-contribution and defined-benefit plans, as well as our stable value solutions. These tools enable the recordkeeping, custody and plan administration services for all retirement plans, provide customer and participant access via web and mobile interfaces, and integrate our Advice, IRA and stable value products.

Responsibilities

  • Build strong partnership with senior business and IT leaders, Transamerica Executive Committee, and regulators across multiple locations to manage Savings & Investments’ IT strategy and architectural principals.
  • Maintain effective vendor management with strategic partners to ensure highest quality of work is delivered.
  • Understand business needs & translate into Technology deliverables; ability to prioritize most critical work.
  • Swiftly address urgent technology issues as they arise and prevent them from occurring in the future.
  • Strong emphasis on team and leadership development. Ensuring a robust technical team with business savvy & sense of urgency and ownership.  Create excitement around the organizational direction & initiatives.
  • Direct staff in assessing the compatibility and integration of products.
  • Standardize services to ensure integrated architecture across interdependent technologies and evaluating IT capabilities against business needs.
  • Channel operation metrics and execute strategic programs to meet organizational goals.
  • Present comprehensive data and information to company leaders, providing insight on business direction and capabilities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, or relevant field
  • 15 years of relevant work experience, hands on development background.
  • Strong technology background and experience with digital transformation including AWS cloud, database, event driven architecture and API architecture.
  • Strong leadership and proven ability to drive alignment and execution across the organization
  • Proven success with effective vendor management.
  • Experience leading a technology team through transformation.
  • Solid understanding of business principles, organizational design, change management, etc.
  • Financial services industry experience
  • Ten years of strategic planning experience
  • Large scale budget experience
  • Ability to attract and develop talent

Working Conditions

  • Hybrid environment preferred
  • Frequent travel

Compensation

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $235,000 - $325,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion. 

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation in order to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.