Lead Platform Engineer

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IT - General

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.

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.

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) 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.

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will set the technical direction for the design, build, and ongoing evolution of the organization’s software platforms. You will lead the configuration and customization of platform capabilities to meet business and technical requirements, while overseeing the development and lifecycle management of applications, workflows, and integrations.

In this role, you will be accountable for the platform’s stability, security, performance, and scalability, architectural standards and best practices across teams. You will partner closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into robust solution designs, guide implementation decisions, and ensure platforms support long-term growth and operational efficiency.

The Lead Platform Engineer is expected to champion automation, proactively identify improvement opportunities, and provide technical leadership in troubleshooting complex issues. Your leadership and expertise will enable the organization to streamline processes, improve service delivery, and elevate overall productivity through well-architected, resilient platforms.

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of monitoring solutions in support of IT operations systems, infrastructure, and applications, Cloud and On premises.
• Provide technical leadership for business and technical analysis and architectural reviews with customers.
• Lead and continuously improve enterprise scale continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes and pipelines.
• Drive strategy and implementation of automated monitoring and alerting across platforms and services.
• Oversee the design and development of ingest pipelines, visualizations, and dashboard capabilities for structured and unstructured data.
• Lead the design and implementation of triggered alert functionality, including on screen…