Lead Engineer, Enterprise

Position: Lead Engineer, Enterprise Applications
Location: Iowa

Department:

Information Technology

Job Description:

The Lead Engineer, Enterprise Applications is a technical leader responsible for guiding solution design, enabling effective delivery, and ensuring scalable, high-quality implementations across enterprise applications supporting core insurance operations, including policy administration, billing, enterprise content management (ECM), underwriting workbench, and related systems. This role combines deep technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration and solution leadership. The ideal candidate works closely with development teams to guide implementation, partners with business stakeholders to shape solutions, and aligns with architecture and infrastructure teams to ensure consistency and scalability across the technology landscape.

This position plays a critical role in improving delivery quality, reducing technical risk, and ensuring systems are designed and implemented to support long-term business needs.

Work Arrangement:

Employees who live within 30 miles of the TMG home office are expected to follow a hybrid or in-office schedule. The initial training period may require additional in‑office days.

Accountabilities:

Technical Leadership & Solution Design Lead the design of end-to-end solutions across enterprise applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business objectives

Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and shape effective, well-architected solutions

Provide technical leadership on complex initiatives, integrations, and cross-platform dependencies

Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and long-term technology direction

Development Guidance & Execution Enablement Work closely with development teams to guide implementation approaches and ensure solutions align with design intent

Support teams during complex or high-risk initiatives by helping resolve technical challenges and unblock delivery

Promote sound engineering practices and ensure adherence to development standards and best practices

Review and validate key technical designs, implementation decisions, and integration approaches

Cross-System Integration & Alignment Drive consistency in integration patterns, data flows, and system interactions across platforms

Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, and other application teams to ensure cohesive, aligned solutions

Act as a technical connector across systems such as policy administration, billing, ECM, underwriting workbench, and supporting platforms

Ensure data flows are accurate, efficient, and scalable across the application landscape

Quality, Standards & Continuous Improvement Establish and reinforce standards for solution design, development practices, and system integration

Identify and address technical risks, gaps, and inefficiencies across systems

Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, and overall technical quality

Contribute to reducing technical debt through practical, forward-looking solutions

Qualifications:

Experience Required8+ years of experience in software engineering, enterprise systems, or technical leadership roles

Deep expertise in designing and implementing solutions across enterprise applications and integrated systems

Experience supporting or designing core insurance platforms (policy, billing, claims) or similar complex business environments

Strong understanding of system integration, APIs, data flows, and distributed system design

Proven ability to guide development teams and improve delivery outcomes through technical leadership

Experience partnering with business stakeholders to shape and design technology solutions

Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to lead without direct authority

Experience

Preferred Experience in the insurance industry

Exposure to modern technology environments (cloud platforms, microservices, event-driven architecture)
Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments

Familiarity with enterprise architecture practices and governance

Pay Range:

Anticipated Hiring Range:$130,000 - $155,000 annual base salary depending on experience, qualifications, and geographic location $140,000 - $170,000 annual base salary depending on experience, qualifications, and geographic location in CA, CT, MA, NJ, NY, and PA Benefits:

We are proud to offer our full-time regular employees a robust benefits suite that includes:

Competitive base salary plus incentive plans for eligible team members
401(K) retirement plan that includes a company match of up to 6% of your eligible salary

Free basic life and AD&D, long-term disability and short-term disability insurance

Medical, dental and vision plans to meet your unique healthcare needs

Wellness incentives

Generous time off program that includes personal, holiday and volunteer paid time off Flexible work schedules and hybrid/remote options for eligible positions

Educational assistance

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