Job Family
IT - Development
About Us
At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.
Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.
Who We Are
We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life .
Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them.
We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.
What We Do
Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate , which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.
Transamerica employs nearly 7 ,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. * For more information, visit transamerica.com .?
Job Description Summary
The Principal Engineering Productivity & Delivery Platform Lead is a high-level individual contributor who concurrently designs, implements, and drives improvement across software delivery discipline, automation guardrails, and engineering maturity throughout the organization. This role operates at a Principal level and serves as the convergence point between Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and application delivery teams. This is a deeply technical position focused on proactively establishing engineering guardrails, enforcing standards through automation, and facilitating measurable improvements in reliability and consistency across all projects-whether through direct ownership or cross-functional influence.
Job Description
Responsibilities
Proactively design and implement enforceable delivery standards across repositories; increase engineering productivity, drive standardization of branching strategies, PR governance, testing expectations, and release conformity through direct contribution and cross-team influence.
Concurrently design, build, and maintain pull request automation, AI-assisted review workflows, and policy-as-code guardrails; implement bots, webhooks, and automation that enforce engineering standards across locally owned and externally influenced capabilities.
Partner with delivery teams as needed to remediate systemic issues in real-time; refactor unstable patterns, normalize repository structures, and facilitate adoption of improved practices.
Lead coordination with internal DevOps, Platform Engineering, Architecture, and Engineering Excellence functions to proactively align strategic standards with implementation across all capability areas.
Establish and continuously evolve engineering maturity benchmarks; actively track engineering cycle times, deployment success rates, merge conflict frequency, AI/automation adoption, and release stability.
Drive enhancement of CI/CD templates through direct implementation and partnership with Platform and DevOps teams; proactively integrate AI tools into engineering workflows where they improve productivity, quality, and resiliency.
Translate architecture decisions into enforceable automation and actively facilitate consistent adoption of shared CI/CD and platform capabilities across the department.
Deliver transparent reporting and improvement roadmaps; proactively identify systemic delivery risks and implement corrective measures through direct action or organizational influence.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience
Ten years of recent hands-on software engineering experience
Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Principal level
Deep expertise in Git branching strategies and pull request governance
Eight years of experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines or software automation
Proven experience enforcing engineering standards across multiple teams
Proficiency automating and building with Amazon Cloud services
Experience building or integrating automation tools (e.g. bots, webhooks, policy enforcement)
Experience coordinating DevOps enablement across platform and delivery teams
Strong systems thinking and ability to diagnose cross-team delivery issues
Expertise in programming languages/frameworks (e.g. Typescript, Python, .NET/C#, JAVA, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, Service Oriented Architecture)
Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Harness, Jenkins, Docker, Containers, ECS, Kubernetes, container automation, and serverless) in a CI/CD pipeline
Expertise in build and deployment tools (e.g. Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Nunit)
Recent coding experience in production systems
Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
Ability to work as part of a team and independently
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Technical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization
Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree
Knowledge of the financial services industry
Experience in regulated or enterprise environments (financial services, healthcare, etc.)
Experience integrating AI tools into development workflows
Experience contributing to internal developer platforms
Familiarity with GitOps, policy-as-code, and automated compliance enforcement
Experience defining engineering maturity models, quality frameworks, enterprise standards
Working Conditions
Hybrid Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays)
Open to potential remote environment
Work outside of normal business hours may be required
Infrequent travel
This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.
Compensation
The Salary for this position generally ranges between $160,000 - $200,000 annually . Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.
Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company's discretion.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Denver, Cedar Rapids, Philadelphia). Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
What We Offer
For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees.
Compensation Benefits
Competitive Pay
Bonus for Eligible Employees
Benefits Package
Pension Plan
401k Match
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Disability Insurance
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Employee Discounts
Career Training & Development Opportunities
Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits
Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
Parental Leave - fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program
Back-Up Care Program
PTO for Volunteer Hours
Employee Matching Gifts Program
Employee Resource Groups
Inclusion and Diversity Programs
Employee Recognition Program
Referral Bonus Programs
Inclusion & Diversity?
We believe our commitment to diversity and inclusion creates a work environment filled with exceptional individuals. We're thrilled to have been recognized for our efforts through the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, Dave Thomas Adoption Friendly Advocate, and several Seramount lists, including the Inclusion Index, 100 Best Companies for Working Parents, Best Companies for Dads, and Top 75 Companies for Executive Women.
To foster a culture of inclusivity throughout our workforce, workplace, and marketplace, Transamerica offers a wide range of diversity and inclusion programs. This includes our company-sponsored, employee-driven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are formed around a shared interest or a common characteristic of diversity. ERGs are open to all employees. They provide a supportive environment to help us better appreciate our similarities and differences and understand how they benefit us all.
Giving Back?
We believe our responsibilities extend beyond our corporate walls. That's why we created the Aegon Transamerica Foundation (https://www.transamerica.com/why-transamerica/aegon-transamerica-foundation) in 1994. Through a mix of financial grants and the volunteer efforts of our employees, the foundation supports nonprofit organizations focused on the things that matter most to our people in the communities where we live and work.? ?
Transamerica's Parent Company?
Aegon (http://www.aegon.com/) acquired the Transamerica business in 1999. Since its start in 1844, Aegon has grown into an international company serving more than 23.9 million people across the globe.* It offers investment, protection, and retirement solutions, always with a clear purpose: Helping people live their best lives. As a leading global investor and employer, the company seeks to have a positive impact by addressing critical environmental and societal issues, with a focus on climate change and inclusion and diversity. ?
As of December 31, 2023
At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking , and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.
Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.
Transamerica is a part of A egon , an integrated, diversified, international financial services group . The A egon companies employ over 2 1,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers . * For more information, visit ? www.transamerica.com .
As of December 31, 2022
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