Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Procurement

Procurement Technology Leader

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Procurement Technology leader with a Financial Services / Insurance background to lead the global technology platforms, integrations, data capabilities, and engineering teams that support enterprise procurement. This role is responsible for enabling efficient, compliant, and scalable source-to-pay, procure-to-pay, supplier management, contract management, purchasing, invoice, and spend analytics capabilities across a global insurance organization, Aegon / Transamerica.

Responsibilities

Leadership, Technical Strategy & Innovation

• Build and maintain a forward-looking global Procurement Technology strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, procurement operating model needs, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory obligations, and regional execution requirements.
• Serve as the technology owner and strategic partner for procurement platforms and capabilities, including source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, supplier lifecycle management, contract lifecycle management, purchasing, invoice automation, vendor master, spend analytics, supplier risk, and procurement reporting.
• Evaluate, rationalize, modernize, and integrate procurement technology solutions across global and local environments, balancing business agility, operational risk, total cost of ownership, security, data quality, and enterprise standardization.
• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage cloud-native platforms, SaaS platforms, API-led integration, automation, workflow orchestration, data management, analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI to improve procurement productivity, policy compliance, exception management, supplier insight, and decision support.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, risk, and procurement leadership to ensure procurement solutions comply with internal standards, privacy requirements, third-party risk expectations, audit controls, and regional regulatory requirements.
• Establish clear technology guardrails and design patterns for procurement solutions, integrations, reporting, data flows, user access, and support models across global and regional teams.

Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of software engineers, platform owners, analysts, and external delivery partners supporting procurement technology globally.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, engineering excellence, operational ownership, continuous improvement, and customer-focused delivery.
• Partner with Global Procurement, Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and regional technology teams to align priorities, manage demand, resolve conflicts, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Build the team's capability across procurement processes, financial services controls, SaaS platform management, integration patterns, data quality, cloud engineering, automation, and production support.
• Manage resource capacity, budget, vendor performance, delivery plans, and support coverage across multiple geographies and time zones.

Technology Execution

• Oversee the design, implementation, integration, maintenance, and modernization of global procurement technology platforms and related enterprise integrations.
• Drive reliable end-to-end procurement technology delivery across source-to-pay and procure-to-pay processes, including requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, supplier onboarding, contract data, invoice processing, payment handoffs, vendor risk workflows, reporting, and analytics.
• Ensure procurement systems are scalable, secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant with financial services / insurance control expectations, including audit readiness, segregation of duties, data protection, records retention, and third-party risk management requirements.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including Dev Ops, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure development, release management, incident management, batch/API reliability, and documentation.
• Improve procurement data quality and governance across supplier, contract, spend, and performance data domains.
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