Risk, Compliance and Law Technology Product Consultant (Hybrid)

Securian Financial • Saint Paul, MN

36d • $89,000 - $164,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Risk, Compliance and Law Technology Product Consultant is responsible for driving product direction, defining requirements, and delivering measurable value for products supporting the Risk, Compliance, and Law (RiCoLaw) domain. This role aligns business objectives, customer needs, regulatory requirements, and enterprise risk priorities to deliver reliable, user-friendly, and sustainable technology solutions. Serving as an agile champion, this role focuses on solving business and customer problems through thoughtful product strategy, backlog prioritization, and data-driven decision making. The Analyst partners closely with stakeholders to define outcomes, identify key performance indicators, and ensure delivery of solutions that support risk-informed decisions and enterprise governance objectives. This role also serves as a workstream lead across RiCoLaw programming and support systems, contributing to medium to large initiatives and portfolio efforts. By leveraging domain expertise and strong stakeholder engagement, the Analyst helps protect employees, customers, and enterprise value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and directly related work experience required.
• In-depth understanding of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) or Integrated Risk Management (IRM) domains and work experience.
• Experience in system life-cycle phases, requirements elicitation, analysis, design (which includes Securian Governance processes), quality assurance testing, implementation, deployment, and system upgrades.
• Ability to effectively present technical and functional information in a manner that is understandable to all levels of the organization.
• Project management experience with demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Advanced analytical skills including excellent problem-solving skills with an understanding of core Integrated Risk Management business practices

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for Integrated Risk Management tooling, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective system configuration, alignment with the Common Risk Framework and business strategy, and data quality. This will include development and administration activities within tools.
• Take a consultative approach to create requirements documents for system builds or changes, empowering teams to develop solutions and internal documentation with guidance and knowledge transfer.
• Act as a liaison between vendors and internal customers to identify requirements and implement necessary system changes.
• Oversee releases by reviewing new features, facilitating testing, and developing documentation and communication materials for large implementations.
• Ensure system security through role creation, security groups, and compliance with legal requirements and internal standards.
• Ensure quality, managing ET Standards quality assurance activities, test case creation and documentation.
• Manage team SLA adherence to ET department standards.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials of system processes
• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise to a diverse set of stakeholders from the business, portfolio management, governance teams (Enterprise Architecture, ECS, etc.), and technical areas to articulate the business need and ensure technical solutions meet business objectives and goals. (Business case development and value optimization)
• Collaborate with Module Leads and Business Owners, leadership, and the RiCoLaw/Corporate Services Technology team to understand end-user needs, evaluate processes, and identify automation opportunities across functional areas.
• Act as a change agent for systems in our portfolio, enhancing capabilities to drive adoption, improve efficiency, and enhance user experience.
• Provide assessment and impact analysis of feature releases and lead optimization projects to maximize system potential for business users.
• Assist the Product Owner in developing the product roadmap, aligning capabilities with business objectives, and recommending improvements to streamline processes and enhance the end-user experience.
• Serve as a technology lead to ensure the success, adoption and innovation of current and future technology solutions
• Perform project management activities as needed to drive technology solutions that meet business outcomes.
• Manage small to medium sized projects.
• Drive decisions related to project planning, execution and closure.
• Assist with the research, selection, implementation and management and roll out of new technology solutions.
• Continually assesses business needs and implements solutions that will ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded by enhancing system capability and performance.
• Contribute to the ongoing change review process and advises on priority, impact, and cost of new change requests.
• Serves as system administrator for required platforms and ensures our systems are ran safely and securely.
• Enforce ET operating principles into business strategies
• Manage the requirements effort on small, less complex assignments.
• Utilize knowledge and experience from requirements reviews and testing activities to produce requirements used as a guideline for application development and test planning.
• Apply the appropriate requirements techniques, tools and templates based on the Solution Delivery Approach (e.g., traditional or Agile), project complexity and size.
• Develop and communicate the requirements plan.
• Identify resources for elicitation, capture the business need, document elicitation results and confirm expressed stakeholder requirements and concerns.
• Produce quality requirements which meet the business needs, objectives and acceptance criteria to be used for design, development, testing and user acceptance.
• Manage the requirements approval, baseline, solution validation and change management activities.
• Finalize and archive all requirements related documentation.
• Responsible for providing leadership to all project stakeholders to coordinate decisions related to planning, development, design, testing and implementation of business solutions. This requires extensive knowledge of multiple division products and plans, proprietary business processes and systems, business workflow, vendor systems, contractual, client and\or regulatory requirements.

Benefits

• 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 encourage you to support organizations important to you.
• Associate Resource Groups: Build connections, be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs.
• Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities, including: Mental Wellness and Disability Pride at Securian Financial Securian Young Professionals Network Securian Multicultural Network Securian Women and Allies Network Servicemember Associate Resource Group

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level