Job Family
IT - Development

Job Description Summary
Leads the technology organization supporting business units as assigned or aligned, while serving as a strategic partner to the Head of Corporate Systems and Data. This highly visible role combines enterprise technology leadership, portfolio ownership, executive stakeholder management, and operational discipline across a complex platform landscape.

Job Description
Responsibilities
• Own the end-to-end technology strategy, roadmap, and delivery for business units as assigned or aligned, ensuring platforms and capabilities align with business priorities and enterprise architecture standards.
• Serve as the primary technology leader for assigned or aligned business unit platforms and capabilities, ensuring integration, adoption, ongoing optimization, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Lead technology delivery across assigned or aligned business units, ensuring platforms scale with operational, regulatory, risk, and business requirements.
• Oversee technology support, governance, tooling, and operating models for assigned or aligned business units, ensuring effective delivery and service management.
• Manage the full technology portfolio budget, including capital and operating spend, vendor contracts, licensing, and resource allocation.
• Own capacity and demand management across the portfolio, balancing run-the-business needs with strategic initiatives and making transparent trade-off decisions with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain multi-year technology roadmaps incorporating platform modernization, AI and automation opportunities, risk reduction, and regulatory change.
• Lead, develop, and grow a team of technology professionals, including managers, engineers, product/platform leads, and business analysts; establish clear career paths, performance practices, and succession plans.
• Serve as a trusted technology partner to senior leaders across assigned or aligned business units, translating business needs into technology strategy and communicating complex topics in clear, business-relevant terms.
• Act as a strategic partner and force multiplier for the Head of Corporate Systems and Data, driving key organizational initiatives, executive communications, operating rhythm, special projects, workforce planning, and cross-functional alignment.

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree
• 12+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including 5+ years managing large, complex technology organizations and multi-year budgets
• Demonstrated experience leading technology for corporate, enabling, or business unit functions in a complex enterprise environment
• Direct experience leading enterprise technology platforms and broader business application ecosystems, with the ability to drive integration, adoption, and continuous improvement across assigned or aligned business units
• Proven ability to translate strategic planning into disciplined execution across complex portfolios, operating effectively at both vision and delivery-detail level
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to build trust and influence senior leaders with diverse priorities
• Strong financial acumen, including budget planning, portfolio prioritization, vendor negotiation, licensing, and capacity/demand management
• Demonstrated people leadership capability, including experience developing talent, building high-performing teams, and fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric delivery
• Experience managing vendor and partner relationships, including systems integrators and platform providers, to ensure quality delivery and cost efficiency
• Ability to exercise discretion and sound judgement in handling confidential, sensitive, and organizational information

Preferred Qualifications
• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience with complex enterprise platforms, business applications, or risk and control technology environments relevant to assigned or aligned business units
• Familiarity with platform governance, service management, vendor management, and technology delivery across multiple business domains
• Experience acting in a chief-of-staff, business management, or executive-support capacity
• Executive presence and gravitas to represent technology with senior business leaders and, where required, Board-level audiences
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure, clarity, and momentum where it does not yet exist
• Strong ability to balance competing priorities across multiple functions while maintaining enterprise focus and sound judgement

Working Conditions
• Hybrid-Office environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)
• Occasional travel (
• Travel may be required for leadership meetings, business planning sessions, offsites, vendor engagements, or cross-functional governance forums

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.

Compensation

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $220K - $285K. 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 typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company's discretion.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, PA; Cedar Rapids, IA; Denver, CO). Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

About the Function

Enterprise Technology is a global Aegon/Transamerica organization that enables the business to move quickly and deliver the best possible outcomes for clients, while keeping their information safe and secure.

With more than 1,000 employees across the UK, US, Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, and Hong Kong, Enterprise Technology is a diverse, global team. Our experts work across areas such as application development, information security, infrastructure, data & analytics, risk & controls, program management, and architecture. We offer a wide range of career opportunities and are committed to supporting employee development.

Curiosity is the quality we value most. Much of our work involves solving complex problems, applying knowledge in new ways, and continuously improving how we operate. As technology evolves rapidly, we look for inquisitive people who are confident challenging the status quo and helping us drive change.

What We Offer

For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees.

Compensation Benefits

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees

Benefits Package

• Pension Plan
• 401k Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities

Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits

• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
• Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
• Parental Leave - fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Back-Up Care Program
• PTO for Volunteer Hours
• Employee Matching Gifts Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Inclusion and Diversity Programs
• Employee Recognition Program
• Referral Bonus Programs