Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Procurement

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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. We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. Today, we are part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide.

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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.

The leader will partner closely with Global Procurement, Finance, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data Governance, and regional Procurement business stakeholders to modernize procurement technology, improve operational resilience, strengthen controls, optimize vendor and SaaS ecosystems, and advance automation and AI‑enabled procurement capabilities.

• 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.

• 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.

• Oversee the design, implementation, integration, maintenance,…