Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Procurement

Transamerica; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Bonus for Eligible Employees

Pension Plan

401(k) Match

Job summary

Transamerica is seeking a strategic, experienced Procurement Technology leader to drive global platforms, integrations, data capabilities, and engineering teams across source-to-pay, procure-to-pay, and spend analytics for a large insurance organization.

The role partners with Global Procurement, Finance, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data Governance, and regional stakeholders to modernize procurement technology, improve resilience, and advance automation and AI-enabled capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field required.
• Extensive experience with modern distributed applications and microservices.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale design projects.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration experience.
• Experience with DevOps methodologies, CI/CD, and architecture strategy.
• Vendor management including negotiations and relationship management.
• Strong communication to executives and boards.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and drive change.
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead global Procurement Technology strategy and roadmaps.
• Partner with procurement, finance, and enterprise architecture leaders.
• Oversee the design, integration, and modernization of procurement platforms.
• Drive cloud-native and AI-enabled procurement capabilities.
• Ensure security, compliance, and operational resilience.
• Manage budget, resources, and vendor performance.
• Promote DevOps, observability, and secure development practices.
• Provide guidance to engineering and delivery teams.

Skills

DevOps & CI/CD

Technical leadership

Vendor management

Executive communication

Problem solving

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Analytical thinking

Prioritization

Matrixed environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Job description

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. Today, we are part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

Job Family

IT – General

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Procurement Technology leader with a Financial Services / Insurance background to lead the global technology platforms, integrations, data capabilities, and engineering teams that support enterprise procurement. This role is responsible for enabling efficient, compliant, and scalable source‑to‑pay, procure‑to‑pay, supplier management, contract management, purchasing, invoice, and spend analytics capabilities across a global insurance organization, Aegon / Transamerica. The leader will partner closely with Global Procurement, Finance, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data Governance, and regional Procurement business stakeholders to modernize procurement technology, improve operational resilience, strengthen controls, optimize vendor and SaaS ecosystems, and advance automation and AI‑enabled procurement capabilities.

Responsibilities

Leadership, Technical Strategy & Innovation

• Build and maintain a forward‑looking global Procurement Technology strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, procurement operating model needs, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory obligations, and regional execution requirements.
• Serve as the technology owner and strategic partner for procurement platforms and capabilities, including source‑to‑contract, procure‑to‑pay, supplier lifecycle management, contract lifecycle management, purchasing, invoice automation, vendor master, spend analytics, supplier risk, and procurement reporting.
• Evaluate, rationalize, modernize, and integrate procurement technology solutions across global and local environments, balancing business agility, operational risk, total cost of ownership, security, data quality, and enterprise standardization.
• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage cloud‑native platforms, SaaS platforms, API‑led integration, automation, workflow orchestration, data management, analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI to improve procurement productivity, policy compliance, exception management, supplier insight, and decision support.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, risk, and procurement leadership to ensure procurement solutions comply with internal standards, privacy requirements, third‑party risk expectations, audit controls, and regional regulatory requirements.
• Establish clear technology guardrails and design patterns for procurement solutions, integrations, reporting, data flows, user access, and support models across global and regional teams.

Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of software engineers, platform owners, analysts, and external delivery partners supporting procurement technology globally.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, engineering excellence, operational ownership, continuous improvement, and customer‑focused delivery.
• Partner with Global Procurement, Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and regional technology teams to align priorities, manage demand, resolve conflicts, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Build the team’s capability across procurement processes, financial services controls, SaaS platform management, integration patterns, data quality, cloud engineering, automation, and production support.
• Manage resource capacity, budget, vendor performance, delivery plans, and support coverage across multiple geographies and time zones.

Technology Execution

• Oversee the design, implementation, integration, maintenance, and modernization of global procurement technology platforms and related enterprise integrations.
• Drive reliable end‑to‑end procurement technology delivery across source‑to‑pay and procure‑to‑pay processes, including requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, supplier onboarding, contract data, invoice processing, payment handoffs, vendor risk workflows, reporting, and analytics.
• Ensure procurement systems are scalable, secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant with financial services / insurance control expectations, including audit readiness, segregation of duties, data protection, records retention, and third‑party risk management requirements.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure development, release management, incident management, batch/API reliability, and documentation.
• Improve procurement data quality and governance across supplier, contract, spend, and performance data domains.
• Lead technology input into procurement transformation efforts, SaaS platform upgrades, ERP integrations, finance transformation initiatives, operating model changes, and global standardization efforts.
• Partner with enterprise data, finance, and procurement analytics teams to strengthen spend visibility, contract compliance reporting, supplier performance insight, category analytics, and executive‑level procurement dashboards.
• Ensure production stability through clear ownership, support models, service level expectations, monitoring, problem management, and root cause analysis for critical procurement processes.

Other Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and leadership to development, platform, and support teams to deliver high‑quality procurement solutions used by multiple business units, regions, and shared service functions.
• Partner with senior leadership and stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Translate strategic priorities into defined roadmaps, tactical action plans, milestones, measurable outcomes, and execution governance.
• Act as a strategist and champion for enterprise architecture, data governance, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and design principles as they apply to procurement technology.
• Participate in whiteboard discussions, roadmap reviews, steering committees, architecture forums, vendor reviews, and executive presentations.
• Act quickly and appropriately to solve problems, bring clarity, remove delivery impediments, and minimize business impact from incidents, defects, platform constraints, and unforeseen circumstances.
• Drive a culture of change, excellence, prudent experimentation, and innovation that constructively challenges the status quo while maintaining strong risk, control, and production stability discipline.
• Manage budget, expenditures, vendor performance, licensing, contracts, renewals, and technology investment trade‑offs in partnership with Procurement, Finance, and Technology leadership.
• Support audit, regulatory, risk, and compliance activities by ensuring accurate documentation, evidence, control execution, remediation tracking, and technology ownership across procurement systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g., computer science, information systems, math, engineering) or equivalent education/experience.
• Eight years of experience with modern distributed applications and microservices.
• Six years of experience in delivery of large‑scale design projects involving interaction with a broad spectrum of enterprise operational functions.
• Four years of experience managing a diverse team and leading cross‑functional teams.
• Strong background in the execution of DevOps methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery, and accomplishments in architecture and strategy.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, including product/service evaluation, contract negotiations, and ongoing relationship management.
• Results oriented with a strong customer focus.
• Strong communication skills to deliver highly relevant and effective information to the Board, executives, and employees.
• Ability to synthesize ambiguous and complex information in a way that leads to substantive actionable outcomes.
• Proactive mindset to drive change, question assumptions and push for innovation solutions.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Technical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization.
• Problem‑solving and technical communication skills.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed environment and identify, define, and resolve organizational issues.
• Creative analytical thinker.
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Procurement platforms like Ariba, Oracle Fusion, Sirion CLM, etc.
• Experience with AI, GenAI, advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations.
• Experience with solution architecture and implementation.
• Technology or platform certifications (e.g., Oracle Fusion, AWS, Microsoft).
• Knowledge of the financial services industry.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid‑Office environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays).
• Work outside of normal business hours may be required.
• Some travel required.

Compensation

The salary for this position generally ranges between $134,000 - $170,000 annually. 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.

Benefits Package

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees
• Pension Plan
• 401(k) Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities
• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the 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

Legal & EEO Statement

We are an equal‑opportunity employer. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.