Senior Manager, Engineering (Hybrid)

American Family Insurance Agency Staff; Madison (WI); Hybride; USD 131 000 - 220 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Relocation support

Hybrid work model

Excellent benefits package

401(k) and pension

Paid holidays & PTO

Student loan repayment

Paid-family leave

Résumé du poste

American Family Insurance in Madison, WI is seeking a Senior IT Architect to lead modernization efforts, architect solutions, and align technology with business goals. You will oversee design, deployment, and operations of servers, networks, cloud services, and external providers, while driving product roadmaps and ensuring delivery on schedule and budget.

This hybrid role requires leadership across partners, SDLC expertise, budgeting skills, and strong communication; relocation support is

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership across multiple business partners.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and SDLC.
• Operational focus on key business processes and enabling technology.
• Ability to prioritize workload and manage competing demands.
• Minimize overhead while enabling agile delivery.
• Strong budgeting and financial management skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsabilités

• Create modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business needs.
• Oversee design, development, engineering, and operations of servers and cloud/hosting services.
• Develop product roadmaps and backlogs prioritized by value.
• Balance user needs, business objectives, resources and feasibility.
• Ensure service availability with minimal downtime.
• Lead cloud and end-user service delivery with project teams.
• Foster a performance-driven environment and set clear goals.
• Contribute to leadership and uphold company policies.

Connaissances

Leadership

Enterprise Architecture

SDLC

Budgeting

Communication

Description du poste

Position Compensation Range: $131,000.00 - $220,000.00

Pay Rate Type: Salary

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities

• Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies.
• Manages the design, development, engineering, implementation and operations of servers, technology infrastructure, networks, websites and telecommunication services provided by external cloud/hosting providers, and in-house development teams.
• Oversees the development of product roadmaps and backlogs that are prioritized based on short-term and long-term value delivery.
• Drives product development towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives, resource utilization, and technical feasibility.
• Manages the performance and availability with minimal downtime/disruption of cloud vendor and internally provided services.
• Coordinates with internal/external project team in leading cloud and end user service delivery implementation plans and ensures completion of projects on schedule and within budget.
• Creates a collaborative, performance‑driven work environment by facilitating and fostering trust, transparency, and inclusion. Works with team members to set clear goals, provide feedback, perform performance assessments, and support on-going development.
• Leads with influence and expertise. Actively contributes to division or department leadership team. Communicates and supports organization mission, vision, values, policies, and practices.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to effectively support multiple business partners and technology stakeholder groups.

Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and SDLC, with the ability to establish and mature new technology platforms, teams, and operating models.

Strong operational focus and ability to understand key business processes and how technology can effectively enable.

Proven ability to prioritize workload, manage competing demands, and develop technical operational metrics to measure system performance and success.

Demonstrated desire and focus on minimizing overhead and complexity while empowering and enabling self‑managing, agile delivery.

Strong budgeting and financial management skills.

Effective communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across business and technology teams and meet people where they are.

Additional Specialized Knowledge & Skills

Insurance and/or Legal industry knowledge is preferred.

Licenses

• Not Applicable.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%.

Physical Requirements

• Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Working Conditions

• Not Applicable.

Additional Information

• To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.
• Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
• Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting

In this hybrid role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month from the office. Candidates should reside within approximately 35-50 miles of one of the following office locations: Madison, WI 53783; Boston, MA 02110

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non‑harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email [e-mail] to request a reasonable accommodation.