IT Delivery Technical Lead - Charlotte, United States - Brighthouse Financial

Description

** IT Delivery Technical Lead - Corporate Solutions**

Req Id: 3847 **Work Location:**

To protect the health and safety of our employees, our offices are currently closed. When our offices reopen, we will offer a flexible work environment that allows our employees the option to work fully remote or occasionally in the office. This role is based in Charlotte, NC

**Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:**

At Brighthouse Financial, were fostering a culture where diverse backgrounds and experiences are celebrated, and different ideas are heard and respected. We believe that by creating an inclusive workplace, were better able to attract and retain our talent, provide valuable solutions that meet the needs of our advisors and their clients, and deliver on our mission of helping more people achieve financial security.

**How This Role Contributes to Brighthouse Financial:**

The Brighthouse Corporate Solutions IT Delivery Technical Lead is responsible for the technical design, implementation, oversight, and future strategic roadmap of technical solutions to achieve strategic business objectives reporting to the Leader of Finance Solutions. This includes technical leadership across multiple corporate solutions technology applications / platforms / assets, with primary focus on SAP solutions. Oversees application landscape and how integration, data, infrastructure, and security are implemented and managed for those solutions across the end-to-end IT architecture. Ensures technical strategy materialized, working with technology and business partners to ensure solutions are defined, prioritized, designed, delivered, and maintained with a simple and low-cost footprint.

**Key Responsibilities:**

Establishes a technical vision; ensuring the teams (development / configuration / engineering) turn the vision into reality. Sets and ensures alignment to technology strategy with Technology partners. Develops technical strategy, oversees architectural impact, designs solutions, and ensures delivery is consistent, aligning outputs to the highest strategic priorities. Assesses technical fit of solution suitably for business objectives, for now and for the future balancing standardization and innovation.

Leads technical design, development, integration, and delivery, responsible for the quality of the technical deliverables. Designs and implements technology capabilities to ensure benefit realization; managing relationships with partners to ensure that application delivery expectations are developed, met, and managed. Responsible for solution strategy, design, development and implementation across scope, timeline, and cost.

Manages SAP Environment and defines Cloud Management and SAP administration procedures.

Monitors design / development for significant deviations; invokes contingency plans when necessary. Troubleshoots and leads resolution of technical issues. Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews code / configuration deliverables. Works to identify improvements, while ensuring optimization of expenses. Leads technical reviews in partnership with Architecture, Delivery, Data & Analytics, Infrastructure, Security and Application Managed Service partners. Applies leadership and management in a technical context.

As a hands-on engineer, ensures how staff and contractors develop and maintain technology is aligned with Brighthouses technology strategy and guiding principles. Leads technical solutioning to closure across partners, resolves technical challenges, understands, and presents pros and cons when decisions are made - and is watchful of technical decisions that have long-term consequences.

Focuses primarily on SAP S/4, Financial Products Subledger (FPSL), Financial Services Cash & Disbursements (FS-CD), Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Business Objects and Fiori solutions supporting corporate solutions and data and analytics; ensuring future state platforms are implemented to realize the business and technology architectures in a timely manner to facilitate timely TSA exits.

Maintains knowledge of technology roadmaps, vendor application roadmaps, industry trends and shares knowledge of risks, opportunities, and services available to build a competitive advantage and improve efficiency and effectiveness of the business

Leads, manages, motivates, and develops staff and contractors in a matrixed environment, identifying and addressing technical training and development needs. Improves team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure efficiency and boost morale.

**Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:**

Proven track record for designing, developing, and implementing large-scale technology solutions with extensive technical depth and breadth.

Extensive knowledge of applicable software, data, infrastructure, and security products / services. Experience in development tools / languages including Hana Studio, ABAP, BAPIs, and RFCs.

Prior knowledge of managing SAP environment (preferably in cloud and with SAP HANA) and managing SAP administration team.

Executive level technical experience with ability to inspire the trust, confidence and respect of peers and other senior leaders. Superior customer relationship, communications, negotiation, and conflict resolutions skills; extensive experience with partnering with and managing vendors and consultants / contractors desired. Experience implementing BPO and SaaS solutions in Cloud and / or working in Agile methodology preferred.

Strong technical expert with demonstrated sound business judgment. Analytic and strategic thinker / problem-solver capable of translating senior-level direction into structured, practical, efficient, and effective recommendations / solutions. Able to achieve results in a matrix setting through stewardship, influence, motivation and change leadership.

Bachelors degree and related field experience preferred, MBA or other advanced degree highly preferred.

10+ years of broad and deep experience in technology roles (including application development, architecture, and engineering) with progressive responsibility, preferably within the financial services industry; experience managing teams preferred.

**Compensation and Benefits:**

Compensation: Base salary ranging from $135,000 to $165,000 plus competitive performance-based incentives determined by company and individual results

Time Off: Minimum of 20 days of paid time off and 13 paid company holidays per full calendar year, plus paid volunteer time

Financial Benefits: 401(k) savings plan with up to a 6% annual match and 3% annual company nondiscretionary contribution of eligible compensation, and employee stock purchase plan

Family Focus: Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents, back-up care program, dependent care flexible spending account, and adoption and surrogacy assistance

Health and Welfare: Competitive medical, vision and dental plans, plus tax-free health savings accounts with potential company contributions up to $1,000 per family

Wellness Programs: Wellness incentive platform, employee assistance program, financial counseling services, fitness center discounts and more

Life & Disability Benefits: Company-paid basic life insurance and short-term disability

Travel:

None

Number of Openings:

1

**Nearest Major Market:** Charlotte

**Job Segment:** ERP, SAP, Equity, ABAP, BPO, Technology, Finance, Operations