Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AmeriLife is a leader in the development, marketing, and distribution of annuity, life, and health insurance solutions for people planning for and living in retirement. The Senior Manager, Finance Data Platform will lead the engineering, delivery, operations, and modernization of the enterprise finance data ecosystem, including capabilities supporting Finance, Accounting, FP&A, commissions, banking, reporting, and reconciliation. The role combines hands-on data engineering leadership, financial data expertise, platform operations, modernization on Databricks, governance, and people management.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering, delivery, operations, and ongoing evolution of the Finance Data Platform
- Provide day-to-day leadership for engineers, finance data specialists, and partner resources supporting FDM and related finance data capabilities
- Establish clear priorities across Finance enhancements, strategic initiatives, production issues, reconciliations, data quality, technical debt, and platform modernization
- Build an operating model that supports rapid Finance-driven changes while maintaining engineering discipline, reliability, governance, and appropriate controls
- Partner closely with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Commissions, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, and enterprise technology teams
- Translate complex Finance requirements and business rules into scalable technical solutions and executable engineering priorities
- Establish clear accountability across engineering, functional expertise, QA, delivery, and operational support
- Develop deep expertise in the existing FDM ecosystem, including its business processes, data models, transformations, integrations, dependencies, and downstream consumers
- Lead data capabilities supporting: General Ledger and journal entries; P&L and financial performance; FP&A, budgeting, planning, and forecasting; Commissions and compensation; Banking and cash transactions; Revenue and expense attribution; Carrier, producer, policy, contract, and product financial activity; Entity, company, product, and organizational attribution; Financial reconciliation and controls; Management and statutory financial reporting
- Partner with Finance stakeholders to understand calculation logic, mappings, hierarchies, allocations, attribution rules, reconciliation requirements, and reporting dependencies
- Ensure financial data can be traced and reconciled from source systems through transformation and downstream consumption
- Support integrations with financial planning, commission, accounting, reporting, and enterprise performance management platforms
- Lead the modernization and migration of Finance data capabilities onto the enterprise Databricks Lakehouse platform
- Design and oversee scalable ingestion, transformation, integration, and publishing patterns for complex financial datasets
- Apply modern lakehouse and medallion architecture principles across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers
- Drive engineering standards including reusable frameworks, metadata-driven pipelines, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation
- Work across databases, APIs, files, SFTP feeds, enterprise applications, and other structured and semi-structured data sources
- Optimize Databricks workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost
- Maintain strong SQL and data engineering standards across the team
- Partner with enterprise Data Architecture and Engineering leadership on data models, integration patterns, architecture standards, and platform strategy
- Drive the progressive retirement and simplification of legacy FDM components as capabilities transition to the enterprise data platform
- Ensure data models appropriately represent financial transactions, accounts, entities, products, carriers, producers, policies, contracts, commissions, and organizational hierarchies
- Establish strong reconciliation capabilities across source systems, FDM, Databricks, General Ledger, financial applications, and downstream reporting
- Ensure appropriate historical tracking, auditability, lineage, and point-in-time analysis for critical financial data
- Partner with Data Architecture and Governance teams to establish consistent business definitions, metadata, lineage, ownership, and data quality standards
- Establish automated controls for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, duplication, referential integrity, and financial reconciliation
- Ensure appropriate security and access controls for sensitive financial information
- Drive root-cause analysis and permanent remediation of recurring data quality and reconciliation issues
- Lead execution across Finance data projects, enhancements, defects, operational requests, and production issues
- Establish a delivery model capable of supporting fast-paced Finance requirements that may not always align to traditional sprint-based development cycles
- Create clear processes for distinguishing and managing enhancements, strategic projects, production incidents, defects, and recurring operational activities
- Balance immediate Finance priorities with long-term platform modernization and technical sustainability
- Establish service expectations, prioritization mechanisms, escalation paths, and measurable delivery outcomes
- Reduce manual processing and operational dependencies through automation and engineering improvements
- Establish monitoring, alerting, incident management, and production-readiness practices for critical Finance data pipelines
- Coordinate internal teams and external delivery partners while maintaining clear internal accountability for outcomes
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Finance Data Platform team
- Build a team with the right combination of data engineering, financial domain, functional, and operational expertise
- Develop team members’ understanding of both the technology and the financial processes supported by the platform
- Create clear ownership and accountability while enabling engineers and specialists to operate with appropriate autonomy
- Manage internal employees, contractors, and strategic delivery partners
- Participate in hiring, workforce planning, performance management, and capability development as the Finance Data Platform organization evolves
Skills
- 10+ years of experience across data engineering, enterprise data platforms, data architecture, financial data systems, or related disciplines
- 3+ years of experience leading data engineering, data platform, or financial data teams
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, or operating large-scale enterprise data platforms supporting business-critical workloads
- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, or comparable modern cloud data technologies
- Advanced SQL skills with strong knowledge of data engineering, ETL/ELT, integration, pipeline design, and performance optimization
- Strong experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
- Strong understanding of financial data and processes, including multiple areas such as P&L, FP&A, General Ledger, commissions, banking, journal entries, financial reporting, reconciliation, allocations, attribution, planning, and forecasting
- Experience supporting data environments where accuracy, auditability, lineage, reconciliation, and financial controls are critical
- Strong knowledge of enterprise data modeling, dimensional modeling, and modern lakehouse architectures
- Experience managing production data workloads and resolving complex data, pipeline, reconciliation, and platform issues
- Experience implementing automated testing, monitoring, data quality, CI/CD, and production controls
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex Finance requirements into scalable data solutions
- Proven ability to lead teams operating across strategic initiatives, rapid enhancements, and business-critical production responsibilities
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to partner effectively with Finance and senior technology leaders
- Experience building, leading, or modernizing a Finance Data Platform, Finance Data Mart, Finance Data Warehouse, or comparable financial data ecosystem
- Experience migrating legacy SQL Server, SSIS, ADF, stored procedure, or traditional data warehouse workloads to Databricks or another cloud-native platform
- Experience with commission and incentive compensation platforms such as Varicent or comparable technologies
- Experience with financial planning, consolidation, and performance management platforms such as OneStream or similar solutions
- Experience within insurance, financial services, distribution, commissions, or other transaction-intensive industries
- Experience working with master and reference data involving companies, legal entities, carriers, products, producers, policies, contracts, accounts, and organizational hierarchies
- Familiarity with Data Vault 2.0, dimensional modeling, medallion architecture, Unity Catalog, data lineage, and modern data governance practices
- Experience managing blended teams consisting of employees, contractors, and strategic delivery partners
- Databricks certification and/or relevant Azure or AWS certifications preferred
Benefits
- This role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.
- PTO
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement savings
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
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