Senior Manager Technology Operations

Senior Manager Technology Operations### Senior Manager Technology Operations Apply:
On-Site:
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
November 28, 2026 (28 days left to apply):
R26 _3395
** About Our Company
** We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and River Source Insurance and Annuities.

Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.
** Job Description
** Provide operational leadership and direction to Mainframe Database Technology Operations team. This is a global team with significant scope/impact (employees, contract personnel and vendor partners) dedicated to portfolio(s) of technical business applications and/or services, including: operational maintenance, production support, front-line management of incidents, development support, and proactive/preventative analysis (to include solution ideation, recommendation and implementation). Serve as point-person and operational expert for issues, needs and projects regarding or related to multiple areas of responsibility.
** Key Responsibilities*
* * Responsible for developing technical roadmaps, policies, standards, engineering procedures and blueprints for relevant network environments·
* Responsible for technical delivery planning of large, complex transformation projects
* Responsible for life-cycle engineering roadmap of environments·
* Responsible for managing a team of engineers including and not limited to training development plans, objective setting, appraisals and ensuring mandatory is completed·
* Responsible for working with external vendors to drive solutions that are fit for purpose for the business·
* Responsible for providing governance over other teams where applicable·
* Have a mentality for continuous improvement and always striving to drive improvements in both technology and process, both inside and outside of the team·
* Knowledge and experience on documentation repositories such as Confluence·
* Knowledge and experience of Agile working practices  + Handle/Drive security incidents calls, handle escalations, or any other security related issues.  + Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.  + Provide after-hours on-call management support and participate in emergent large scale event response when needed.  + Participate in re-occurring security audits and reviews.  + Provide inputs on security methodologies, policies, and procedures.  

+ Communicate with senior leadership on the status of security BAU tasks.  + Work Independently and/or within a team environment to complete highly complex assignments.  + Security design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing security rules and standards in datacenter environment.  + Lead proper execution of network security changes or updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.  

+ Responsible for security monitoring in addition to being able to lead troubleshooting network-related issues in a logical manner.  + Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for security standards that scale with the business growth.  + Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative…