Job Description

The stated pay range is based on a national-average location. Actual salary is determined by factors including relevant work experience, skills and location. This position is bonus eligible. Candidates and associates may be asked to travel to corporate offices for interviews, training and/or meetings. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States.

CNO Financial Group’s IT Team is seeking a Sr. Director, IT Security Architecture who will be responsible for managing and overseeing moderately large applications technology investments to modernization CNO’s technology. Moreover, the role will oversee multiple external vendor partnerships, establish contracts ensuring CNO’s interests are protected, and balance responsibilities for reducing technical debt and system complexity with the need for speed to market and competitive delivery costs.

As a Dir, Business Optimization - Applications, your responsibilities will include:

Identifying avenues for continuous improvement for services within scope of responsibility, including new approaches and processes and the eventual retirement and replacement of systems and processes that have reached the end of cost-effective functionality.
Developing overall Applications future state architecture strategy, with goal of eliminating legacy applications and building the application foundation for the future, which includes sunsetting systems and archiving data.
Leading application conversion efforts, process and outcomes; directing and overseeing the strategic plans and road maps for the conversion programs that have moderately high dollar investments and high risk (provide critical business functionality), and moderate to high complexity (may connect to multiple systems inside and outside CNO).
Driving the analysis, development, and implementation of application conversion solutions. This includes ensuring robust reviews and governance processes for the design and configuration of software solutions.
Ensuring that conversions align with CNO’s business goals, promote standardization, and support high system availability objectives.
Overseeing the quality of external teams and deliverables provided by sourcing partners, ensuring CNO is receiving appropriate value for fees paid to sourcing partners; ensures sourcing partner for Statements of Work and Work Orders are complete, and that external vendors implement a program of continuous improvement on behalf of CNO.
Ensuring compliance and understanding of Core Processes that support: Demand Management, Sourcing contracts, Service Level Agreements, Sox Compliance, Internal Audit, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, System Development Life Cycle, and Vendor Management which aligns to the Foundational Strategies.
Providing input into appropriate CBA's for programs where investment exceeds $500,000.
Aligning the Application Architecture to the Enterprise Architectural decisions to enable growth of the IT organization in whole.
Playing a role in managing business area portfolio of technologies, assessing the fit, health and effective operation of in-scope technologies.

The Dir, Business Optimization – Applications position is well-suited for you if you:

Have deep knowledge of multiple technology application domains with expert knowledge in Vantage-One and LifeComm and legacy applications, including mainframe and open systems
Have in-depth working knowledge of technology and insurance business processes, and remain current with emerging industry and technological trends.
Possess extensive knowledge of life and health insurance products and processing to contribute effectively to operational excellence, ensuring accurate and efficient handling of insurance processes while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards and delivering exceptional service to clients
Have proven experience in Application and Data architecture, medium-scale system design and development experience.
Possess strong analytic and conceptual skills and can understand long-term and short-term implications of decisions, in order to estimate the financial impact of various alternatives. Has a broad technology background with exposure to a variety of platforms, operating systems, and tools.
Can to communicate with appropriate context to all levels of the organization (primarily up to VP levels) and across business units; able to leverage communication skills to influence decisions.
Can lead groups of people and provide key input into decisions that have a major impact on key business metrics.
Can provide respective Application architecture perspective in decisions related to other architecture disciplines.

What you’ll need:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
10 years of experience leading large programs within IT Life & Health Insurance (i.e. budgets exceeding $1M).
Strong experience delivering business specific programs.
Proven moderate to large scale system design and development experience.
Previous experience with LifeComm, Vantage-One and mainframe is a must for this role.

What will set you apart:

Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field of study
Program Management experience
Strong interpersonal skills, with specific emphasis on team building and facilitation
Strong Verbal and Writing skills to enable clear communication of company objective and project plans

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical insurance
Denta insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) retirement plan with company match
Short-term & long-term disability insurance
Paid time-off and corporate holidays,
Paid parental leave
Company paid life insurance

CNO embraces flexibility and encourages you to work where you’re most productive. Associates who live within a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) have access to come into that office.

Associates who live outside of a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) may perform this role full-time work from home (WFH) from any US based location, as long as you are willing to work central or eastern time zone hours. All associates may be asked to travel to varying corporate offices periodically. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States.

CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) secures the future of middle-income America. CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands, including Bankers Life, Colonial Penn, Optavise and Washington National. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.3 million policies and more than $38.3 billion in total assets. Our 3,300 associates, 4,900 exclusive agents and more than 6,500 independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions.

We are financially strong and well positioned for continued growth, and we are grounded in our core values of People Focused, Integrity, Customer Driven, and Excellence. We have offices in more than 220 communities in the U.S., including our headquarters in Carmel, Indiana, and corporate offices in Birmingham, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee.

At CNO Financial Group, we’re always looking forward—to the security and stability we help create for our insurance brands’ customers, and the growth we create within our own company. We're looking for ambitious people who want to do more. We'll provide you with opportunities to grow your skills through challenging professional experiences.

If you're looking for a culture that encourages development, helps you reach your potential, and rewards you for your contribution, then CNO Financial Group is right for you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Compensation

Pay Range: $158,200.00 - $237,200.00 Annual