Director of Engineering

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with The Standard.

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams across the nation, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture focused on operational excellence thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Job Summary

The Director of Engineering is accountable for the functions of planning, execution, and support of one or more software delivery teams and/or products. In this role, you will empower, coach, and maintain staff on the engineering delivery teams, while facilitating team connectedness and engagement. You will work with product & business leads to form a multi-year plan, creating alignment within product roadmaps, and participate in the planning and prioritization of work. Additionally, you will audit for adherence to standards/regulations in security, financial, and legal matters, ensuring governance and compliance.

In this role, you will prioritize agile software delivery to ensure rapid and efficient development cycles, while embracing servant people leadership to empower and support our team members in achieving their full potential. A curiosity and passion for improving software build, deployment, and support with a close eye to customer focus will be strengths of this individual.

Key Responsibilities:

• Continuously work to foster ‘one team’ mentality across delivery and business team members. Radiate information to give staff the outside-of-team IT and business context for their work.
• Align processes and tooling to IT operational governance requirements including SDLC Metrics, Software Standards, and Production Support.
• Be an agent of change using lean and agile delivery methods to drive continuous improvements that support the team and organization in its pursuit of being a Product-oriented delivery team. Work closely with engineers, scrum masters and product owners to follow SDLC processes and metrics, and drive meaningful outcomes.
• Participate in vendor selection, and contract development & review including deliverables, scope, SOW’s, RFP’s, SLAs, and KPIs as applicable.

Skills and Background You’ll Need

• EDUCATION: A Bachelor’s degree is required.
• EXPERIENCE:  Typically requires 8 – 10 years’ experience within IT and 3+ years’ experience managing IT employees, or the equivalent combination of education/experience. Experience leading high-performing IT engineering or agile delivery teams is required. 
• Experience building, deploying, and supporting hybrid solutions (cloud/on-prem). Experience with cloud-native development (Azure preferred) and hybrid solution development. Extensive experience building CI/CD pipelines with a developer-first mindset. Experience with automation, infrastructure as code and configuration management. Experience in infrastructure / operations leadership is preferred.
• Experience supporting customer-facing solutions/systems and working under SLAs for availability and performance. 
• Expertise with Agile development in a medium to large organization, preferably with the SAFe model.   
• Experience with medical underwriting business processes & applications, customer data integrations / data feeds, and/or insurance/financial services industry is preferred.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Engaging Hearts & Minds: Creates a team identity and builds momentum toward a shared purpose.
• Strategic Visioning: Considers different future scenarios, opportunities and risks to generate operational plans that align with the business unit/function’s strategic vision.
• Developing People: Delivers both individual and group feedback to support ongoing development and overall department performance.

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Why Join The Standard?

We have built an enduring legacy of stability, financial strength and exceptional customer service through the contributions of the service-oriented people who choose to work at The Standard. To ensure we can attract and retain the best talent, when you join The Standard you can expect:

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions

• An annual incentive bonus plan

• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure

• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement 

• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance

• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools

In addition to the competitive salary range below, our employee-focused benefits support work-life balance. Learn more about working at The Standard.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

Salary Range:

$143,750.00 - $273,250.00

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.