Manager, Technical Solutions

Overview

At Legal & General America, we aim to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers, partners, colleagues, and the communities in which they live. As a recognized market leader of term life insurance, we're working to transform our business through innovation and technology to provide products and solutions that help American families secure their financial futures.

We are a future-focused company, passionate about what we do and how we do it. This means working with pace and energy to reach our goals and challenging ourselves to achieve more. We strive to create a unique environment where balance between work and life is possible. Our employees' passion, dedication and hard work, as well as our career development opportunities, benefits, and employee activities contribute to our positive workplace culture.

The Manager of Technical Solutions will execute the creation and implementation of cutting-edge digital platforms that align with business strategies and drive the organization's digital transformation. This role will be responsible for engineering and QA leadership, executing innovative solutions, and ensuring delivery coordination across multiple platforms while eliminating technical debt. This role will collaborate across scrum teams to develop scalable, maintainable, and future-ready systems and technologies as well as the reduction of satellite IT.

• Digital Platform Excellence
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  Lead the development and implementation of Horizon and other digital platforms using microservices, cloud technologies, AI/ML, and Dev Ops principles. Build scalable, high‑performing, secure, and aligned with business goals.
• Scrum Management & Agile Delivery
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  Lead and guide the scrum team to ensure the delivery of high‑quality, architecturally sound solutions. Facilitate the agile development process, ensure the team adheres to sprint goals, and drive continuous improvement within the team. Promote a collaborative and high‑performance culture within an agile team.
• Engineering Excellence
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  Execute a unified engineering design practice that ensures architectural and design standards are followed across all projects. Oversee applying best practices in software development, ensuring performance, stability, and scalability while minimizing risk and preventing technical debt.
• Technical Execution
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  Guide design reviews, code quality standards, and technical decision‑making across the stack.
• Team Leadership & Development
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  Build, mentor, and retain a diverse, high‑performing team of engineers, quality assurance analysts, and other technology professionals. Foster a growth mindset, ensuring teams have the skills and capabilities to deliver innovative solutions.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation
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  Promote innovation and transformation by seeking out opportunities to improve processes and platforms in support of the company’s business goals.
• Collaboration with Key Stakeholders
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  Partner with product managers and other scrum teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment between technology and business goals. Execute jointly prioritized product and technology roadmaps that drive efficiency and business transformation.
• IT Cross‑functional Collaboration
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  Partner with teams across the IT organization (including cybersecurity, infrastructure, and PMO) to ensure cohesive, standardized, and architecturally sound technology implementations that deliver value to the business.
• Technical Debt Prevention & Elimination
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  Ensure that technical debt is actively managed, with clear strategies for preventing its accumulation. Implement practices for tracking, resolving, and preventing technical debt across platforms, aligning with the overall technical strategy.
• Innovation & Emerging Technologies
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  Stay ahead of the curve by identifying and evaluating emerging technologies that could enhance digital platforms and business capabilities. Lead innovation efforts through proof‑of‑concept work, piloting new tools and platforms, and exploring ways to incorporate AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies.

• Bachelors required or equivalent relevant experience
• Master's Degree Preferred

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