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Security Benefit

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1892

🛡️ Insurance

💸 Finance

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $500M Debt Financing - Security Benefit on 2025-09

Insurance • Finance

Security Benefit is a U. S. -based financial services company with a long legacy (over 130 years) that focuses primarily on retirement and investment products. For more than five decades it has concentrated on the retirement market, providing a broad suite of annuities and mutual fund programs designed to help individuals, financial professionals, and employers align assets with long-term goals. The firm’s website emphasizes offerings for individuals, financial professionals, and employers, and highlights its brand evolution and continued product updates.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of complex automation solutions using Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, desktop automation, and complementary enterprise automation tools. • Translate ambiguous or complex business processes into secure, scalable technical solutions and assess automation suitability, value, risk, dependencies, and operational impacts. • Modernize legacy and user-interface-driven automations toward API-first and event-driven patterns using REST APIs, Microsoft Graph, custom connectors, plug-ins, scripting, and cloud services. • Contribute to automation solution architecture, platform roadmaps, reusable patterns, and technical standards. • Establish and apply application lifecycle management and DevOps practices, including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, environment strategy, managed releases, configuration management, and rollback planning. • Build observability and operational resilience through logging, monitoring, alerting, exception handling, retry patterns, runbooks, and measurable service performance. • Embed security, privacy, auditability, and least-privilege access into solution design. • Evaluate and apply intelligent automation capabilities, including AI-assisted workflows, document processing, Copilot or agent capabilities, and human-in-the-loop controls. • Lead technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production incidents and identify systemic improvements. • Create and maintain solution design, architecture, process, testing, deployment, operational, and support documentation. • Partner with business stakeholders, product and delivery teams, architects, data teams, and infrastructure teams to deliver automation initiatives and communicate technical tradeoffs. • Mentor engineers and developers, conduct design and code reviews, and improve engineering practices through reusable components, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Minimum 5 years of experience in automation engineering, software engineering, robotic process automation, application development, or a closely related role. • Strong hands-on experience delivering production solutions with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate cloud and desktop flows, Power Apps, and Dataverse, or a comparable enterprise automation platform. • Experience integrating systems through REST APIs, custom connectors, databases, event-driven services, or scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or C#. • Experience with source control, CI/CD, multi-environment deployment, testing, release management, and production support. • Ability to lead technical design for complex initiatives, work independently, communicate with non-technical stakeholders, and mentor other practitioners. • Microsoft Power Platform certification, UiPath certification, or comparable automation or cloud credential preferred. • Experience with UiPath or another enterprise RPA platform preferred. • Experience with Azure or AWS services, identity and access management, secrets management, Microsoft Graph, enterprise data platforms, Salesforce, SharePoint, SAP, or Snowflake preferred. • Experience applying governance, security, and audit controls in financial services, insurance, or another regulated industry preferred. • Experience with intelligent automation, AI Builder, Copilot Studio, document intelligence, machine learning, or agentic workflow patterns preferred. • Experience establishing reusable components, platform standards, operating models, or citizen-development guardrails preferred.