Senior Director, Product & Engineering - Finance & Risk

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Director of Digital Product Engineering to lead high-performing engineering, product, design, and technology delivery teams. Lead technology delivery for the Finance and Risk function and maintain a strategic roadmap, align product, engineering, and business teams around releases. Work with cross-functional leaders on strategy and vision through building, shipping, and maintaining our digital products.

This area is beginning a significant multi-year transformation, and the leader will be responsible for driving and executing technology and data transformation within this function.

This role leads teams responsible for technology capabilities in Controller, Finance and Planning Analytics, Sourcing and Procurement, Enterprise Risk Management, Audit, and Antifraud areas.  This is a cross-functional role where the engineering and product teams directly report into them.

This role will work closely with business stakeholders and enterprise technology partners to understand critical data and analytical challenges and opportunities. Establish Finance and Risk Data platform by applying in-depth knowledge of data domains, cloud data and application technologies, architectural patterns, frameworks, and tooling to meet Finance and Risk business area's data and analytics needs. Adept at building strong relationships across Finance and Risk business organizations and enterprise technology partners.

The key responsibility of this role is to lead the Finance Transformation initiative. This modernization will facilitate the replacement of several vendor applications, including People Soft, the expense management system, and various reporting platforms. The new platform will be crucial for the future capabilities of the Controller's Office, as well as for Financial Planning, Actuarial Services, Enterprise Risk Management, and Audit functions.

What You'll Do

* Vision:
Sets the long-term 5-year technology vision for Finance and Risk technology and data capabilities including vendor implementation and integrations across business. This includes product and engineering vision, roadmap to sequence and achieve incremental impactful business outcomes over time.

* Leadership: Leads the Finance and Risk technology and its implementation to deliver Finance and Risk technology and data/analytics platform to enable applications, data, analytics, and reporting needs across FRF business.

* Stakeholder Management: Collaborates with the business to understand business drivers, strategy, and critical business outcomes for the Finance and Risk business. Establishes business-aligned goals and leads the team to meet the objectives. Ability to channel challenging teams, interpersonal conflicts, and cross-departmental political initiatives into opportunities.

* Technical leadership:
Provides hands-on technical leadership to drive the execution of the future state technology and data vision to delivery. Demonstrates ability to dive deep into Finance and Risk data technology solutions, data systems architecture, and Data Governance tooling.

* Talent and Development: Leads the talent strategy and development of the team. Responsible for hiring, coaching, mentoring the group, and developing cross functional engineering leaders.

* Culture:
Build a high-performing culture and embraces NM's behaviors in bringing the best out of people. Leads with enterprise vision.

* Drive:  Drives high performing teams and can lead with expertise, energy and empathy.

* Defines the Product:
Identifies and validates problems and/or opportunities for multiple user groups/scenarios across the company.

* Prioritization:
Sets long term goals for both the product portfolio and team members.

* Manages budgets for optimal business results

* Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive and instills these behaviors within the team.

* Acts as an ambassador and representative for Northwestern Mutual's technology organization in community and technology events.

What You'll Bring to the Role

* Must have 15+ years of professional experience in Application development & programming across multiple languages, frameworks, Solution…