Our Fortune 500 company is driving a digital transformation and looking for forward-thinking innovators to disrupt how our industry thinks about and uses technology. As one of the world's leading employee benefits providers, we help millions of people gain affordable access to benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures.
Are you an asker of questions, a solver of problems, and a challenger of the status quo? Our mission is to provide a differentiated customer experience and exceed the expectations people have of technology at any company - not just insurers.
We are seeking individuals to join our team of talented IT professionals who share never-ending passion and an unwavering focus on our customer experience. Team members comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment thrive in our environment where we value an entrepreneurial spirit and those who challenge the status-quo.
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General Summary:
Individuals in this role provide leadership and guidance to several agile and/or infrastructure and operations teams supporting various business and technical capabilities, services or functional areas of IT. They work with their team to implement and deliver new solutions to enable, enhance or transform business capabilities or services.
This individual is instrumental in the implementation of part of the portfolio for a given BDH, Value Stream, or for specific infrastructure services. They work with their manager, business product owners, or similar relevant roles to define delivery priorities in line with the technical, financial and people resources available. They work within their BDH, Value Stream, or IT counterpart to develop business partner relationships, effectively communicates, and successfully executes IT plans in support of the agreed goals and objectives.
Job Specifications
- Degree in computer science preferred, or relevant technical experience
- Has 8+ years experience in an IT field, or equivalent relevant work experience
- Proven leadership in executing IT plans successfully that enable technical or business capabilities and address technology or business priorities.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Lean/Service Management leadership principles.
- Exhibits courage by taking smart risks and encouraging others to do so; empowers innovative approaches by motivating others to be proactive and resourceful.
- Lead initiatives involving GenAI technologies using Azure Cognitive Services, OpenAI or Amazon Q, Textract, and Bedrock or other AI/ML services or frameworks.
- Collaborate with technical teams to integrate using Python, NodeJS, fastAPI, Flask and LLM libraries such as LangChain and Llama.
- Familiarity with AWS services (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SageMaker) and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) is a plus.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads functional areas of IT to build, enhance, transform, or support technology and/or business services by successfully delivering on outcomes.
- Engages in strategic planning with business and IT stakeholders to provide direction, guidance or recommendations on technology and architectural considerations.
- Defines a portfolio of change and roadmap. Engages and influences IT and business leaders to ensure the portfolio will deliver agreed business objectives.
- Collaborates with IT leadership across various disciplines, provides guidance, direction or recommendations to address a wide range of business and technology needs with emphasis on optimized, timely and successful delivery.
- In collaboration with the IT VP, initiates and influences relationships with and between key stakeholders involved in the management and implementation of IT plans, acts as a point of contact for stakeholders, planners, designers, and operational business partners.
- Experience in building Generative AI solutions. Identify, assess and develop Generative AI and AI/ML applications by applying key industry tools, techniques, and methodologies
- Applies innovative methods utilizing IT assets and capabilities in alignment with the organization's strategic direction and tactical plans.
- Highly proficient in applying knowledge of IT's technology framework(s), technical environment, and cross-organizational IT functions in technical choices for a variety of large, strategic efforts.
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Our company is built on helping individuals and families, and this starts with our employees. We want employees to maintain a positive balance, which is why we provide access to the benefits and resources they need to invest in themselves. From our onsite fitness facilities and generous paid time off to employee professional development programs, we are committed to helping employees live and work their best - both inside and outside the office.
Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.
The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.
$109,100.00-$213,300.00
Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.
Company:
Unum