Technology Specialist

godirect; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Savings plan with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Voya Financial is seeking a Technology Specialist to own end-to-end delivery of technical solutions for end users, ensuring efficiency and alignment with business expectations. You will drive day-to-day operations, collaborate with internal teams and vendor partners, and act as an escalation point for unresolved issues.

The role emphasizes handling SLAs/OLAs, improving service delivery, and mitigating risks while maintaining a cohesive, high-performing team. FINRA licensure is preferred.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in service delivery, account management, or technical customer support related roles.
• Experience working in service delivery teams.
• Knowledge and experience of industry-standard service delivery methodologies is required.
• Securities / Financial Services industry experience required, broker-dealer experience preferred; minimum 1yr.
• FINRA licensure preferred

Responsibilities

• Understand business needs, objectives, and challenges, ensuring services and solutions meet or exceed expectations.
• Coordinate and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure timely delivery of high-quality services.
• Implement and maintain best practices, processes, and standards for service delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery efficiency and customer satisfaction.
• Identify and mitigate risks that could impact service delivery and work with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Maintain team cohesiveness through collaboration, guidance and support to team members, ensuring high performance and morale.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Service delivery

Education

B.S./B.A. preferred

FINRA licensure preferred

Job description

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

Profile Summary:

The Technology Specialist is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the technical solutions provided to end users, ensuring the services are provided efficiently, effectively, and in line with Business expectations. The Technology Specialist performs the day-to-day delivery and performance, while participating in driving continuous improvement. They will act in partnership across the enterprise to successfully execute on behalf of the end users with our internal teams and external vendor partners. The Technology Specialist will also serve as an escalation point for end users when support items/platform issues are seen as unresolved per ‘normal process’.

Profile Description:

• Understand Business needs, objectives, and challenges, ensuring services and solutions meet or exceed their expectations.
• Drive innovation and develop sustainable solutions to solve complex vendor and/or system requirements throughout the identified life cycle of the task.
• Perform day-to-day team operations, ensuring all services are provided as per the expectations and in compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) and operation level agreements (OLAs), as Manager requires.
• Coordinate and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure timely delivery of high-quality services and address any issues that may arise.
• Implement and maintain best practices, processes, and standards for service delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery efficiency and customer satisfaction.
• Identify and mitigate risks that could impact service delivery and work with stakeholders to resolve these issues.
• Maintain team cohesiveness through collaboration, guidance and support to team members, ensuring high levels of performance and morale.

Knowledge & Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience in service delivery, account management, or technical customer support related roles.
• Experience working in service delivery teams.
• Knowledge and experience of industry-standard service delivery methodologies is required
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• B.S or B.A preferred but not required.
• Securities / Financial Services industry experience required, broker-dealer experience preferred; minimum 1yr.
• FINRA licensure preferred

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$77,580 - $96,980 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

Learn more about Voya benefits (download PDF)

Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

Learn more about Critical Skills

Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If 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 reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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