Legal & General America-posted 3 months ago
$157,100 - $227,800/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Frederick, MD
501-1,000 employees

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. Our vision is to cover more American families through digital solutions, and we have been delivering market leading double digit growth in the last 4 years going from #8 to #3 market position in term life market. We are looking for a senior IT leader to lead infrastructure projects across our Microsoft Azure cloud and on prem data center. Must possess transformation experience and be a change advocate for the team, department, and organization. Responsible for managing all infrastructure functions, working with IT leadership to deliver high quality results on schedule. Foster, build, and lead a team who are empowered to continually improve. Work directly with stakeholders to understand needs, gaps, opportunities, and develop infrastructure, data center and telecommunication practices to meet the organization demands and support corporate goals.

  • Ensure infrastructure solutions are compliant with corporate policies/standards and state regulations.
  • Collaborate closely with the cyber security team to maintain a strong cyber posture, security first, and cyber aware culture.
  • Earn trust by providing consistent service delivery, regular reporting, transparency, and handling escalations promptly.
  • Plan, prioritize, assign, supervise and review the work of assigned staff performing a variety of work activities.
  • Ensure that SLAs/OKR’s are developed to meet business expectations, identify gaps between capability and expectations, remediate those gaps, and continually measure for compliance.
  • Ensure a high standard of service performance by managing teams to adhere to the appropriate policies and procedures.
  • Effectively manage vendors and their relationships in compliance with LGA’s Vendor Management Policy and Program Procedures.
  • Assess and manage infrastructure (hardware, software, network) risks.
  • Architect, build, and maintain best in class hosting environments for enterprise applications.
  • Maintain hardware/software asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory, life cycle management, and related documentation.
  • Ensure the highest levels of database server performance and stability through monitoring, optimization, and disaster recovery planning.
  • Work with the IT senior leadership team on the service portfolio and governance required to prioritize resources, including budget.
  • Research new technologies, making recommendations to senior management, forecasting future needs/capacity planning.
  • Provide guidance and career mentoring to staff.
  • Direct team assignments and work plan for a team of 10-15 staff.
  • Develop and manage infrastructure budget.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Technical certifications (MSCE, MCP, MOS, CCNA, CCDA, CISSP, CISM, ITIL, COBIT etc.).
  • 5+ years of leadership experience.
  • 15+ years of infrastructure experience.
  • 5+ years of people management experience.
  • 3+ years’ experience of public cloud like Azure, AWS.
  • Proven stakeholder management experience at all levels.
  • Strong leadership capabilities and emotional intelligence skills.
  • Passion for excellence in infrastructure modernization, advancing infrastructure capabilities, automation, and proactive monitoring.
  • Expertise in Agile Scrum/scaled agile processes and concepts.
  • Proven solid written and oral communication skills.
  • Proven capabilities in managing a budget of at least $5m.
  • Health, life, and dental insurance.
  • 401K with company match up to 6%.
  • Pension package.
  • 20 vacation days and 10 sick days.
  • 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
  • Professional development support.
  • Wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.
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