Director, Data Platforms & Integrations

F&G is hiring for a Director, Data Platforms & Integrations. This position plays a key role in the organization by managing the execution and quality of integrations and platform management in support of F&G’s strategic goals and objectives.  This role will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and championing strategic environments for enterprise data integration and data management.

Responsibilities

• Manage development, maintenance, and implementation of F&G’s data integration platforms and data movement strategies, including guidance around usage, access, and scalability
• Responsible for the design and runtime of back-end integration environments and the building of the technical automation of the capability models
• Improve speed to market leveraging automation, innovation, and process improvements
• Design, oversee, manage, and execute an enterprise data integration strategy through effective operations
• Assist in developing and setting the strategic direction of the data platforms approach
• Lead data integrations team and provide subject matter expertise on complex projects
• Translate undefined business problems and defined business objectives and goals into functional solutions
• Independently direct team as well as contribute individually to project and solution outcomes
• Manage day-to-day relationships with operational engineering teams, TPA’s, and other strategic vendors
• Design and manage the implementation of integrations between hardware and software platforms, programs, and applications
• Identify, plan, and execute integration strategies, ensure ongoing monitoring, and maintain and optimize existing integrations
• Partner with Retail Operations, Architecture, and Engineering to ensure back-end integration initiatives align with enterprise strategy
• Gain understanding of industry trends, tools, and practices, communicates to leadership for direction
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure contract terms, SLA and performance agreements are met and changes/enhancements/bugs are managed appropriately
• Ensure that all solutions meet F&G security and compliance guidelines and align with disaster recovery guidelines
• Partner in defining all roadmaps, architectures, frameworks and risks associated with each, and manage risk and compliance to minimize exposure

Requirements

• B.S. or B.A. required, advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years of Information Technology leadership in data management, applications architecture or development/programming
• Experience managing cross-functional development team and outsource vendors
• 3+ years demonstrated experience leading teams in the Life and Annuity Insurance market
• Experience with business communication for technology enablement for back end integrations
• Strong/current technical proficiency with applications architecture, frameworks and enterprise solutions delivery
• Strong/Current architecture and implementation experience
• Experience designing, developing, implementing and monitoring adherence to policy, process, procedures and standards
• Strong project management experience, certification a plus