Jobs at Protective Life

Leads annuity distribution across North Carolina and East Tennessee by developing financial institution relationships, executing regional business plans, supporting internal wholesalers, growing advisor relationships, and achieving sales goals. Requires annuity wholesale distribution experience, territory sales success, relevant financial services licenses, and FINRA Series 63 certification.

Provides legal, compliance, and regulatory guidance for statutory PFML, disability, and group employee benefits insurance products. Monitors laws and regulations, reviews product materials and business processes, supports filings, examinations, complaints, and regulatory matters, and partners with cross-functional stakeholders on product development and risk management. Develops compliance policies, controls, training, and impact assessments while translating complex requirements into practical business guidance.

Leads enterprise underwriting strategy, portfolio risk management, profitability oversight, and governance across products and distribution channels. Uses analytics, forecasting, modeling, and market insights to guide pricing, reserving, product strategy, and risk mitigation. Partners with Product, Actuarial, Finance, Sales, and Operations leaders while developing scalable processes and a high-performing underwriting organization. Provides executive-level reporting, strategic advice, talent development, and cross-functional leadership.

Leads the DataOps and MLOps platform for Databricks on Azure, establishing CI/CD, orchestration, observability, governance, infrastructure automation, and reliable production deployment of data pipelines and machine-learning models. Owns Dagster, dlt, dbt, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Terraform, security, cost optimization, incident practices, compliance automation, and model monitoring. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, and ensures data and ML systems are reliable, auditable, secure, and cost-effective in a regulated insurance environment.

Lead the technical design and operation of consumer-facing data products on a Databricks lakehouse. Own medallion architecture, dimensional modeling, ODCS data contracts, data quality, observability, CI/CD, incident response, and production standards. Write and review Python and SQL, guide code reviews, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, platform, governance, and ML teams, and ensure compliant, reliable delivery in a regulated insurance environment.

Supports the Corporate and Transactions Team with regulatory and corporate governance matters. Responsibilities include researching requirements, preparing legal and regulatory filings, communicating with insurance regulators and stakeholders, coordinating board and committee meetings, preparing agendas and materials, drafting resolutions and minutes, and maintaining organized records.

An 8-week Business Systems internship supporting internal technology solutions for a life insurance business. Interns may develop web-based tools, connect applications to SQL databases, support database initiatives, gather and document requirements, design user-facing applications, and translate business needs into technical solutions. The program includes mentoring, collaboration with business leaders, presentations, and professional development opportunities.

Eight-week summer IT internship for undergraduate and graduate students. Interns will contribute to software development lifecycle activities, implement automation for manual business processes, test and troubleshoot software, document solutions, and participate in Agile ceremonies. The program includes mentoring, collaboration with business leaders, professional development, and work on real business projects at Protective’s Birmingham, Alabama corporate office.

Eight-week summer sales internship supporting broker outreach, prospecting, meeting coordination, follow-up communications, pipeline management, market research, and sales strategy projects. Interns collaborate with sales leaders, analyze market opportunities, present recommendations, and gain exposure to sales operations, business development, and client relationship management.

Designs, builds, and operates production data pipelines on Databricks and Azure using Python, SQL, Spark, Delta Lake, dbt, and Dagster. Responsibilities include ingestion, medallion-layer transformations, dimensional modeling, ML datasets, data contracts, quality testing, governance, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and on-call support. The role partners with architects, analysts, product owners, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, reusable data products.

Supports Client Relations operations by managing dealer agreements, submissions, checklists, documentation, system updates, supply orders, and follow-ups. Responds to agency inquiries, resolves issues, coordinates with account executives and clients, and ensures licensing and insurance paperwork is complete. Maintains accurate agreement trackers, supports dispatch functions, documents processes, and meets service KPIs while providing professional assistance to internal teams and external partners.

Develop and support Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions across the enterprise. Design web components, applications, automations, integrations, and Azure cloud services using C#, .NET, JavaScript, Dataverse, SQL, Power Apps, and related technologies. Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to define requirements, architecture, standards, and delivery plans. Work within Agile practices, document solutions, ensure quality and acceptance criteria, and provide innovative technical solutions for insurance business needs.

Supports employee and corporate communications through drafting, editing, and publishing content across intranet, newsletters, emails, digital signage, and other channels. Coordinates editorial calendars, content reviews, announcements, leadership communications, and employee campaigns. Partners with business teams to translate complex information into clear communications, prepares supporting materials, tracks communications performance, and provides project support across executive, change, reputation, crisis, and external communications.

Develop and manage assigned automotive agencies by promoting products, growing accounts, resolving client issues, and coordinating with internal teams. Responsibilities include agency management, dealer presentations, production forecasting, reinsurance reviews, remittance and attrition management, expense control, and issue resolution with accounting and claims teams. The role requires extensive relationship building, strong sales aptitude, organizational skills, and travel 70–80% of the time.

An 8-week Internal Audit internship involving compliance and risk auditing, control testing, audit discussions, and analysis of existing control documentation. Interns collaborate with business teams, participate in professional development and networking activities, and receive mentoring. The role is based at Protective’s corporate office in Birmingham, Alabama, and is intended for actively enrolled undergraduate or graduate students in relevant fields.

Supports Protective’s Corporate Communications team with internal storytelling, content creation, employee engagement, newsletters, campaign planning, proofreading, research, and intranet updates. The intern will create written and visual content using Microsoft Office and Canva, collaborate on communications initiatives, contribute creative ideas, and help translate complex topics into clear messaging while gaining experience through mentoring and professional development activities.

Provides sales support for retirement-industry wholesalers by prospecting within assigned territories, qualifying advisors, scheduling and confirming appointments, coordinating group events, maintaining CRM and market-metrics data, managing prospect lists, resolving scheduling conflicts, and preparing meeting materials. Partners with wholesaling teams to optimize territory routes and increase sales activity and production.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and governance of production machine learning and GenAI systems on Azure Databricks. Establishes MLOps standards, builds MLflow and CI/CD foundations, architects RAG and LLM solutions, monitors model performance and cost, and mentors ML and data engineers. Partners with product, risk, governance, legal, and security teams to ensure models are reliable, explainable, fair, documented, and compliant.

Designs and leads enterprise data solutions supporting analytics, reporting, and AI. Serves as a design authority across teams, defining data architectures, models, integration patterns, standards, roadmaps, and secure scalable platforms. Translates business objectives into technical designs, influences stakeholders, guides build-versus-buy decisions, mentors engineers and architects, and ensures solutions meet governance, compliance, reliability, and operational requirements.

Eight-week business analytics internship for enrolled undergraduate or graduate students. Interns will partner with senior analysts, build dashboards and reports, analyze datasets, support analytics projects, improve processes, document findings, and contribute to data-driven decisions using SQL, Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.