Vice President, Engineering

Symetra is seeking an experienced and dynamic Vice President of Engineering to join our leadership team. This pivotal role requires a seasoned leader who can balance technical excellence, business acumen, and people-first leadership. The ideal candidate will bring a start-up mentality to drive innovation while demonstrating deep experience scaling engineering teams and delivering results within fast-paced organizations. What you will do: Build a highly technical, supportive, and inclusive team environment; Collaborate with business partners to build a technical strategy for the company's emerging solutions and established lines of business; Advocate (where appropriate) for new technologies and help business partners understand benefits of utilization; Use intel and technology experience to advise strategic direction and the delivery of innovative and modernize customer experiences; Partner with Technology & Operations Solutions leadership to support strategy execution; sought out as a trusted advisor of Symetra's business division leaders; Coach and mentor technologists to help them reach their potential; Work hands-on with your team on impactful engineering work; Recruit, hire, grow, and retain engineering and architecture talent; Cultivate an engineering culture that emphasizes quality, agility, experimentation, and continuous delivery while removing roadblocks; Champion collaboration across teams, especially in the identification of common challenges and the promotion of re-usable solutions; Be a technologist! Lead large, complex initiatives that deliver modern customer products and experiences; Responsible for delivering high quality products on time; Develop an architecture that is flexible and scalable as we grow; Build a highly reliable, secure, scalable, and performant tech stack; Provide leadership and collaboration regarding key technology decisions; Actively pursue the reduction of technology debt where possible and reduce operational risk. Your skills and experience: Brings modern knowledge in software engineering and solutions architecture; 10+ years of engineering leadership, including scaling and growing successful teams; Outstanding communication, listening, and empathy skills as judged by your teammates; ability to walk the talk with change management; Extraordinary at balancing long-term technology investments against short-term business needs; Proven past technical accomplishments and ability to be "hands-on" when vital; Startup experience, FinTech/Insurtech experience a plus; Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. In our daily work, we're guided by the principles of Value, Transparency and Sustainability. This means we provide products and services people need at a competitive price; we communicate clearly and openly so people understand what they're buying, and we design products--and operate our company--to stand the test of time. We're committed to showing up for our communities, lifting up our employees, and standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).