IT Manager/Engagement Lead for Enterprise Data

1 hour, 32 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Horace Mann

Horace Mann

Horace Mann is the largest financial services company dedicated to helping educators and community servants achieve lifelong financial success. They offer a full range of tailored insurance and financial products, including auto, home, and life insuran...

Insurance
1K-5K
Founded 1945

Description

  • Evaluate and prioritize incoming requests based on business impact, urgency, and technical feasibility.
  • Set clear expectations with stakeholders and communicate trade-offs, timelines, risks, and outcomes.
  • Facilitate the movement of work from roadmap through project intake, prioritization, cost-benefit analysis, and project initiation.
  • Maintain operational metrics, roadmaps, goals, project status, and other department reports.
  • Identify and remove operational roadblocks such as process inefficiencies, unclear responsibilities, and misaligned priorities.
  • Coordinate resource capacity and demand planning, onboarding, tracking, and support for employee and contractual staff.
  • Foster cross-team collaboration and shared understanding of priorities, dependencies, and technical solutions.
  • Create accountability structures and promote a culture of ownership, problem-solving, and continuous learning.
  • Coach team leads on planning, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Serve as an escalation and resolution point for cross-team resource conflicts and competing priorities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of experience in IT leadership with a focus on managing IT projects, technical support, and/or system enhancements.
  • Proven ability to make strategic prioritization decisions that drive business value.
  • Experience implementing generative AI technologies in development workflows.
  • Familiarity with data management areas such as data-intensive applications, data development lifecycles, data analytics, business intelligence, data governance, and/or data-driven decision making.
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical priorities and vice versa.
  • Ability to view the enterprise data ecosystem holistically and identify systemic issues across multiple teams or business areas.
  • Familiarity with planning and ticketing systems such as ServiceNow, Enterprise One, Monday, Jira, or Azure DevOps, and IT project/portfolio management best practices.
  • Familiarity with change management frameworks to support adoption of new processes, tools, or prioritization frameworks.
  • Strong leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
  • Preferred: experience leading or shaping IT data and continuous improvement teams in a large enterprise environment.
  • Preferred: experience in Insurance, Financial Services, or a related business domain.
  • Preferred: familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), ITIL frameworks, and Agile methodologies.

Benefits

  • Pay range of $105,200.00 to $147,950.00.
  • Salary is commensurate with experience, location, and other factors.
  • Opportunity to work for a publicly traded company with a large enterprise data function.
  • Employer is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.
  • Special rates and benefits for educators through the company’s broader offerings.

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