Platform Engineering & Enablement Senior Consultant; Hybrid

* At Securian Financial the internal position title is Product Owner Sr Con.*

The REO Enablement Office, a strategic execution arm within the Reliability Engineering & Operations (REO) organization, translates REO's strategic visions into actionable roadmaps, measurable maturity progression, and cross-functional delivery across key capability domains.

The Platform Engineering Strategy & Enablement Senior Consultant, a senior individual contributor role, operates as a domain-specific strategist and execution driver under the governance and orchestration of the REO Enablement Leader. This role evolves the REO's operating model while ensuring transparency, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business impact.

The Platform Strategy & Enablement Senior Consultant drives the advancement of REO's platform and infrastructure capabilities, ensuring scalability, automation, and operational consistency across the enterprise. Acting as a bridge between technical engineering teams, governance, and business strategy, this consultant shapes the roadmap for modernization and reliability enablement, turning strategic direction into actionable business cases, epics, and user stories that deliver measurable impact.

• Develop and maintain the platform engineering roadmap aligned with REO strategic priorities and enterprise architecture
• Define epics, features, and user stories that improve developer experience, CI/CD maturity, and platform scalability
• Build business cases that quantify engineering enablement value, automation ROI, and operational resilience
  
  Partner with infrastructure, SRE, and architecture teams to ensure roadmap alignment and delivery discipline
• Execute against CMMI milestones for platform modernization, observability tooling, and automation maturity
• Provide engineering-focused maturity scorecards, adoption metrics, and performance dashboards to REO governance forums
• Contribute platform engineering insights to REO's CMMI framework and maturity model evolution

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in platform engineering, Dev Ops product management, or technical program management
• Demonstrated success in building business cases and managing backlogs for complex platform capabilities
• Strong experience defining epics, user stories, and roadmaps for engineering enablement
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business impact

#LI-hybrid This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you're in a commutable distance (90 minutes), you'll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

The estimated base pay range for this job is: $ - $

Pay may vary depending on job-related factors and individual experience, skills, knowledge, etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay (if applicable) can be discussed with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial, we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job - it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team, we want you to connect with your work, your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth, well-being and work-life balance, including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

• We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax, recharge and spend time doing what's important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.
• Leave programs:
  Securian's flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave, caregiver leave for family members, bereavement and military leave.
• Holidays:
  Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securian's 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings, with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings, sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment, associates and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners and children - are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events, volunteer paid time off, a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more, we…