*Securian Financial Groups internal position title is Engineering Sr. Manager

The Technology Experience Platforms team has a job opening for a Senior Manager position to lead the Salesforce Platform team. This position has staff and technology leadership responsibilities for delivering exceptional experiences and further driving the adoption of the Salesforce platform as Securian's enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. As a strategic enterprise platform, you will be responsible for partnering with stakeholders across the Sales, Service, and Marketing teams to ensure the platform is being leveraged to drive business value, improve and simplify processes and technologies, and increase customer and associate satisfaction. Additionally, you will be leading a team of skilled Salesforce developers in support of the Salesforce platform through Securian's Agile adoption.

What you will do in this job:

• Lead effective team(s) of Salesforce development professionals responsible for acquiring, developing and implementing applications and platforms aligned to technology experience goals.
• Drive further adoption and consistency of the Salesforce platform across the enterprise, while providing business value and technical simplification.
• Team leadership activities which include staffing, motivating, training, counseling, managing performance and growing and developing team members.
• Lead the ongoing support and operations of platforms to ensure that business is processed in an accurate, timely, safe and secure manner.
• Develop and maintains business and technology knowledge and relationships to effectively support business needs from an enterprise technology perspective. Ensure the technology strategy supports current and future business needs.
• Participate in the project management lifecycle to support projects, while identifying risks, opportunities and solutions.

What we will expect from you:

• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and leading a team, while supporting technical skill development for the positions on the team.
• Leadership skills to gain credibility, garner respect, be assertive and guide the team Communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills to connect and engage platform team as well as negotiate with business and technology areas.
• Knowledge of methodologies for portfolio planning, project management, and systems development.
• Demonstrate a solution-oriented approach and willingness to resolve or elevate issues quickly.
• Technical aptitude to understand platform solutions and how those solutions interrelate with other internal/external systems or solutions.
• Awareness of current industry trends and new technologies; desire and willingness to continuously improve those skills and knowledge through internal and external continuous learning.
• Experience managing and enterprise platform, Salesforce knowledge/experience, and CRM knowledge/experience is a plus.

If the above position is of interest to you, or if you would like more information on this opportunity, please contact Dave Baston or apply through Workday.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement**

Physical job requirements:

• Ability to utilize keyboard, mouse and computer for up to 8 hours per day
• Ability to work at least 40 hours per week
• Ability to utilize telephone for up to 8 hours per day

New hire associates, regardless of work location or job responsibilities, must be vaccinated before beginning employment; exceptions considered for medical or religious reasons provided alternative reasonable accommodations do not create an undue hardship on the business.

Securian Financial has been around for 140 years. We're committed to giving back to our community, donating 15,000 employee volunteer hours this past year. We also provide extensive resources to our employees for professional development and growth and a number of diverse professional and social opportunities throughout the company. There's a reason our employees have voted us as a best place to work year after year! In addition:

• Generous paid time off. We want you to take time off for whatever matters most to you!
• Tuition reimbursement program. We value continuous learning at Securian!
• Company-funded pension plan as well as 401K retirement plan - great resources to secure your financial future.
• Continuous opportunities for new challenges.
• Variety of health plan options as well as dental and vision plans.
• Paid maternity/paternity leaves.

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