Sr. Tech Lead, Life & Annuity Systems
Nationallifeinsurancecompany · Addison, TX; Montpelier, VT · Posted Jul 7, 2026
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Come join one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.
Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.
We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good.
Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.
Role Summary
The Sr. Application Technical Lead is expected to lead a technology team to deliver end-to-end project solutions in a fast-paced environment. The Technical Lead must demonstrate strong technical thought leadership that is deep in Life Annuity (L A) Insurance Policy Admin Systems capabilities and Mainframe technologies with basic understanding of SQL and Integration technologies. The Technical Lead will provide IT technical guidance in solution selection as well as lead and facilitate project development and implementation in L A functionality.
This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills, as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles
Establish and sustain high trust partnership with business stakeholders and product owners who are dependent on the incumbent’s technical guidance
Ensure IT resources are effectively utilized in IT Application Service delivery
Apply skills in application development and support while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of technology
Collaborate with architects and development community to define and maintain standards, processes, and emerging technical roadmaps
Collaborate with IT staff maintaining applications in the Inforce domain or with points of integration to applications
Judge the feasibility and trade-off of different technologies and make choices that fit the constraints of the project/product. Ensure solutions satisfy business requirements and are of the highest quality
Estimate delivery cost and schedule for Inforce domain related solutions, projects and requests
Build and maintain detailed working knowledge of key business applications
Identify application transformation rationalization opportunities as we transform to a simpler, more modern system platform
Develop application design, application configuration, test and release management processes
Communicate effectively, and with an appropriate level of detail, to all levels in the organization.
Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels.
Strong conceptual and analytic skills. Ability to design and build complex algorithms.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree, preferred in Computer Science, or relevant work experience.
10+ years Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience; Designing, maintaining and enhancing software applications leveraging COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ISPF/PDF, FILE-AID, MVS, Endevor and using IBM Mainframe environment preferred
3+ years of experience leading product / project development team on Vantage policy administrative platform preferred
Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively in team environment
Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority
Ability to manage IT Suppliers in a cost- effective manner
Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations
Agile solution delivery skills highly desired
Benefits
Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life !
Base Pay Range . The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors, including: prior experience and job-related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.
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