Solutions Delivery Manager - Finance & Valuation

Continental General • Austin, TX

6d • $150,000 - $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Looking to join a growing company dedicated to helping others? We offer that, plus competitive salaries, a culture of learning, and a fast-paced environment. This is a hybrid position with 3 days in-office. Join our team to help make a difference in the lives of others!
About Continental General:
The Continental General family of companies has provided insurance, including life and long-term care policies, to individuals and groups for over 30 years, and currently supports over 100,000 policyholders. Both our insurance company, Continental General Insurance Company, and our third-party administrator, Continental General Services, are committed to the continuous development of our infrastructure, processes, and people. The group is actively growing through expansion of both its insurance portfolio and its administrative services. With each opportunity, we take a collaborative approach to address challenges and provide unique solutions.
Position Summary:
The Solutions Delivery Manager (Finance & Valuation) is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of technology solutions that support Finance and Actuarial Valuation business users. This role partners closely with the Product Owner, as well as with Finance and Valuation stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and high-quality technical solutions.
The Solutions Delivery Manager oversees and contributes to the planning, design, and execution to ensure initiatives are delivered successfully while meeting stringent data accuracy, reconciliation, and control standards. Solutions are expected to follow a cloud-first, AWS-native approach and leverage automation and AI-enabled capabilities wherever appropriate to improve efficiency, insight, and resilience. Architectures should be modern, flexible, scalable, and loosely coupled.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of technology experience; 1–3 years of management experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Understanding of financial and valuation data structures, including general ledger, bank, and valuation data.
• Experience with bank file formats, integrations, and reconciliations (e.g., ACH, positive pay, balance and transaction reporting).
• Structured and semi-structured data formats (SQL, CSV, fixed-width, XML, JSON)
• ETL / ELT pipelines and batch processing
• Experience handling sensitive financial data and PII with appropriate security and controls.
• Proficiency with Agile delivery tools (e.g., Jira).
• Strong understanding of SDLC, testing strategies, deployment, and version control.
• AWS experience, including services such as S3, Lambda, APIs, and cloud-native integration patterns.
• Proven leadership and team-development skills
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to Finance and Valuation business partners
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in data-intensive environments
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives while maintaining delivery quality and control discipline
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and audit-readiness in financial and valuation solutions

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Developer and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Oversee and implement integrations between policy administration, banking, valuation, and financial systems to ensure accurate, auditable, and timely data flows.
• Design, deliver, and support technology solutions for Finance and Valuation stakeholders. This includes ownership of internally developed solutions as well as oversight and implementation support for vendor-provided platforms.
• Ensure solutions meet business, regulatory, and control requirements, including reconciliation, traceability, and data lineage.
• Partner with product owners, project managers, analysts, engineers, data specialists, and QA teams to meet delivery milestones and resolve delivery risks.
• Build strong working relationships with Finance and Valuation leaders to understand business priorities and technology needs.
• Translate complex requirements into clear technical designs and delivery plans.
• Provide transparent communication on progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
• Champion AWS-based, cloud-native architectures for solutions, emphasizing scalability, resiliency, and security.
• Drive modernization of legacy reporting and integration processes, reducing manual effort and improving timeliness and accuracy.
• Promote automation, event-driven designs, and serverless patterns where appropriate.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI to enhance financial and valuation reporting, anomaly detection, reconciliations, and forecasting.
• Support the adoption of AI-assisted development, testing, and data quality techniques to improve delivery speed and reliability.
• Ensure responsible and secure use of AI, particularly when working with sensitive financial and valuation data.
• Lead and mentor delivery team members, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate planning sessions, design reviews, kanban meetings, and retrospectives to ensure consistent execution.
• Promote delivery standards, best practices, and shared accountability across teams.
• Assess existing financial and valuation systems, integrations, and reporting pipelines to identify improvement opportunities.
• Recommend architectural and process changes that improve performance, reduce operational risk, and enhance scalability.
• Support strong data governance practices, including controls, validation, and audit readiness.
• Operate within Agile delivery frameworks, ensuring work is well-prioritized, dependencies are managed, and value is delivered incrementally.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation is created and maintained, including architecture diagrams, integration specifications, data mappings, and control processes.
• Promote knowledge sharing and reusable patterns across delivery teams.
• Lead investigation and resolution of identified issues.
• Provide post-implementation support and ensure smooth transitions into steady-state operations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits, including 401(k), health insurance, and performance-based bonuses.
• Collaborative and fast-paced work environment.
• Professional development and growth opportunities within the finance and investment space.
• Competitive Salary & Target Bonus Program
• Retirement Savings – 401(k) with a company match
• Comprehensive Medical insurance through BlueCross BlueShield of Texas. Company-paid dental, vision, short-term & long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Work-Life Balance – This role offers 20+ days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and paid volunteer time off.
• Flexible Work Options & Perks – Hybrid opportunity, wellness programs, and weekly paid lunch for onsite staff.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) – Includes a company match for HSAs.

What This Job Offers

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