Senior Director, Technology

About Us: At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are: We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them. We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do: Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs. Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com.

Job Description: Summary Leads the technology organization supporting business units as assigned or aligned, while serving as a strategic partner to the Head of Corporate Systems and Data. This highly visible role combines enterprise technology leadership, portfolio ownership, executive stakeholder management, and operational discipline across a complex platform landscape.

Job Description: Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technology strategy, roadmap, and delivery for business units as assigned or aligned, ensuring platforms and capabilities align with business priorities and enterprise architecture standards.
• Serve as the primary technology leader for assigned or aligned business unit platforms and capabilities, ensuring integration, adoption, ongoing optimization, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Lead technology delivery across assigned or aligned business units, ensuring platforms scale with operational, regulatory, risk, and business requirements.
• Oversee technology support, governance, tooling, and operating models for assigned or aligned business units, ensuring effective delivery and service management.
• Manage the full technology portfolio budget, including capital and operating spend, vendor contracts, licensing, and resource allocation.
• Own capacity and demand management across the portfolio, balancing run-the-business needs with strategic initiatives and making transparent trade-off decisions with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain multi-year technology roadmaps incorporating platform modernization, AI and automation opportunities, risk reduction, and regulatory change.
• Lead, develop, and grow a team of technology professionals, including managers, engineers, product/platform leads, and business analysts; establish clear career paths, performance practices, and succession plans.
• Serve as a trusted technology partner to senior leaders across assigned or aligned business units, translating business needs into technology strategy and communicating complex topics in clear, business-relevant terms.
• Act as a strategic partner and force multiplier for the Head of Corporate Systems and Data, driving key organizational initiatives, executive communications, operating rhythm, special projects, workforce planning, and cross-functional alignment.