Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Procurement

About the role

At Transamerica, we seek a strategic and experienced Procurement Technology leader with a Financial Services / Insurance background to lead global technology platforms, integrations, data capabilities, and engineering teams that support enterprise procurement.

This role is responsible for enabling efficient, compliant, and scalable source-to-pay, procure-to-pay, supplier management, contract management, purchasing, invoice, and spend analytics capabilities across a global insurance organization, Aegon / Transamerica.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a forward-looking global Procurement Technology strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, procurement operating model needs, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory obligations, and regional execution requirements.
• Serve as the technology owner and strategic partner for procurement platforms and capabilities, including source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, supplier lifecycle management, contract lifecycle management, purchasing, invoice automation, vendor master, spend analytics, supplier risk, and procurement reporting.
• Evaluate, rationalize, modernize, and integrate procurement technology solutions across global and local environments, balancing business agility, operational risk, total cost of ownership, security, data quality, and enterprise standardization.
• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage cloud-native platforms, SaaS platforms, API-led integration, automation, workflow orchestration, data management, analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI to improve procurement productivity, policy compliance, exception management, supplier insight, and decision support.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, information security, data governance, risk, and procurement leadership to ensure procurement solutions comply with internal standards, privacy requirements, third-party risk expectations, audit controls, and regional regulatory requirements.
• Establish clear technology guardrails and design patterns for procurement solutions, integrations, reporting, data flows, user access, and support models across global and regional teams.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of software engineers, platform owners, analysts, and external delivery partners supporting procurement technology globally.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, engineering excellence, operational ownership, continuous improvement, and customer-focused delivery.
• Partner with Global Procurement, Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and regional technology teams to align priorities, manage demand, resolve conflicts, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Manage resource capacity, budget, vendor performance, delivery plans, and support coverage across multiple geographies and time zones.
• Oversee the design, implementation, integration, maintenance, and modernization of global procurement technology platforms and related enterprise integrations.
• Drive reliable end-to-end procurement technology delivery across source-to-pay and procure-to-pay processes, including requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, supplier onboarding, contract data, invoice processing, payment handoffs, vendor risk workflows, reporting, and analytics.
• Ensure procurement systems are scalable, secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant with financial services / insurance control expectations, including audit readiness, segregation of duties, data protection, records retention, and third-party risk management requirements.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure development, release management, incident management, batch/API reliability, and documentation.
• Improve procurement data quality and governance across supplier, contract, spend, and performance data domains.
• Lead technology input into procurement transformation efforts, SaaS platform upgrades, ERP integrations, finance transformation initiatives, operating model changes, and global standardization efforts.
• Partner with enterprise data, finance, and procurement analytics teams to strengthen spend visibility, contract compliance reporting, supplier performance insight, category analytics, and executive-level procurement dashboards.
• Ensure production stability through clear ownership, support models, service level expectations, monitoring, problem management, and root cause analysis for critical procurement processes.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to development, platform, and support teams to deliver high-quality procurement solutions used by multiple business units, regions, and shared service functions.
• Partner with senior leadership and stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Translate strategic priorities into defined roadmaps, tactical action plans, milestones, measurable outcomes, and execution governance.
• Act as a strategist and champion for enterprise architecture, data governance, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and design principles as they apply to procurement technology.
• Participate in whiteboard discussions, roadmap reviews, steering committees, architecture forums, vendor reviews, and executive presentations.
• Drive a culture of change, excellence, prudent experimentation, and innovation that constructively challenges the status quo while maintaining strong risk, control, and production stability discipline.
• Manage budget, expenditures, vendor performance, licensing, contracts, renewals, and technology investment tradeoffs in partnership with Procurement, Finance, and Technology leadership.
• Support audit, regulatory, risk, and compliance activities by ensuring accurate documentation, evidence, control execution, remediation tracking, and technology ownership across procurement systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. computer science, information systems, math, engineering) or equivalent education/experience
• Eight years of experience with modern distributed applications, and microservices
• Six years of experience in delivery of large-scale design projects involving interaction with a broad spectrum of enterprise operational functions
• Four years of experience managing a diverse team and leading cross-functional teams
• Strong background in the execution of DevOps methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery, and accomplishments in architecture and strategy
• Experience managing vendor relationships, including product/service evaluation, contract negotiations, and on-going relationship management
• Results oriented with a strong customer focus
• Strong communication skills to deliver highly relevant and effective information to the Board, executives, and employees
• Ability to synthesize ambiguous and complex information in a way that leads to substantive actionable outcomes
• Proactive mindset to drive change, question assumptions, and push for innovation solutions
• 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
• Problem-solving and technical communication skills
• Able to work in a highly matrixed environment and identify, define, and resolve organizational issues
• Creative analytical thinker
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Procurement platforms like Ariba, Oracle Fusion, Sirion CLM etc.
• Experience with AI, GenAI, advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
• Experience with solution architecture and implementation
• Technology or platform certifications (e.g. Oracle Fusion, AWS, Microsoft)
• Knowledge of the financial services industry