Senior Manager, Information Technology

IAT Insurance Group has an immediate opening for Senior Manager, Information Technology in several locations including Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Kansas City, Missouri;
Rolling Meadows, Illinois;
Naperville, Illinois;
Scottsdale, Arizona;
Raleigh, North Carolina;
Jersey City, New Jersey;
Newark, New Jersey;
Norristown, Pennsylvania;
Plano, Texas;
Alpharetta, Georgia;
Cheshire, Connecticut; and Sarasota, Florida.

This leadership role is responsible for enabling a secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure while driving disciplined execution of both business‑led and infrastructure initiatives. The role requires a strong focus on how work is defined, prioritized, and delivered across the organization. This includes ensuring that infrastructure work is clearly scoped, aligned to business outcomes, and executed efficiently with minimal rework or operational friction.

The leader also establishes strong financial management practices, including forecasting, expense management, and financial analysis to ensure effective use of resources. The position oversees infrastructure engineering and architecture teams, ensuring the successful delivery and operational handoff of essential infrastructure capabilities including cloud services, compute and storage platforms, backup and recovery, end user technologies, network services, unified communications, monitoring, disaster recovery and cyber resiliency.

This role works a hybrid schedule, requiring presence in the office Monday through Wednesday, with the option to work remotely Thursday and Friday.

• Infrastructure Strategy and Execution:
  Develop and support the infrastructure strategy and roadmap to ensure systems are highly available, scalable, and secure. Drive consistent and disciplined execution across both strategic initiatives and operational work, ensuring work is clearly defined, sequenced appropriately, and aligned to business priorities before execution begins.
• Operational Excellence and Delivery:
  Establish and monitor how infrastructure work flows across teams, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas of constraint. Drive continuous improvement in how work is delivered, reducing rework, delays, and operational overhead. Ensure effective transition of solutions into operations with clear ownership, monitoring, and support models.
• Technology Leadership and Innovation:
  Oversee evaluation, selection, and implementation of infrastructure technologies that scale effectively and support long‑term organizational needs. Guide adoption of new technologies with a focus on operational readiness, maintainability, and measurable business impact. Balance innovation with simplification, reducing unnecessary complexity across the environment.
• Security and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Partner with security to ensure infrastructure architectures align to security policies and enterprise standards. Lead regular reviews to proactively identify and address risks across infrastructure platforms. Ensure security considerations are integrated into design and delivery, not added after deployment.
• Team and Organizational Leadership:
  Build and lead a high‑performing engineering organization with a strong focus on accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement. Develop leaders and teams who can operate across boundaries, collaborate effectively, and take ownership of outcomes. Drive organizational effectiveness by improving processes, decision making, and alignment across teams. Foster a culture that values simplicity, ownership, and delivering outcomes over activity.
• Financial and Resource Management:
  Drive financial planning, forecasting, and expense management for infrastructure services. Ensure effective allocation of resources across operational and strategic work. Drive cost awareness and accountability while enabling the organization to scale.

• Must‑Have:
  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of IT infrastructure or security operations leadership experience.
• Strong technical foundation across infrastructure engineering, architecture, or operations.
• Proven track record of delivering…