Web Experience Sr Manager_2988 (Minneapolis)

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The Engineering Manager for Web Experience & Security leads the team responsible for delivering exceptional digital experiences across the public-facing web platform - including user flows and journeys, web usability, content engineering, security implementation, and page performance. This is a backfill role being elevated to require a genuine engineering background, in line with the organization's commitment to building an engineering-first culture across all web domain teams.

This manager owns a dedicated slice of the single prioritized backlog, runs a full-stack engineering team, and is accountable for both delivery velocity and technical quality. They partner closely with the Annuity and Life Products, Integration & Platform, Self-Service & Engagement, and Architecture domain leads to ensure web capabilities are coherent, reusable, and performant across the entire digital platform.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Web Modernization within the Digital & Ops Modernization organization.

What you do

Web user experience & journeys

• Own end-to-end engineering delivery for user flows, journeys, and experience design across the web platform, ensuring experiences are intuitive, accessible, and optimized for financial professionals and policyholders
• Partner with UX design, product, and content teams to translate experience requirements into high-quality, maintainable frontend code
• Drive web accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum) as a first-class engineering requirement, not an afterthought
• Own Core Web Vitals and page performance and particularly the Policy Details page and other high-traffic customer-facing experiences with systematic profiling, optimization, and monitoring built into the definition of done
• Establish frontend engineering standards and component library governance in partnership with the Architecture domain

Security implementation

• Own web security engineering; including authentication flows, session management, enforcement, Content Security Policy (CSP), and input validation
• Implement and maintain security controls that meet regulatory and audit requirements for a financial services digital platform
• Own the vulnerability remediation and security patching cadence for the web layer, working with enterprise security teams on penetration testing and review outcomes
• Ensure security is embedded in the definition of done and code reviews include security considerations and no release ships with known critical or high vulnerabilities
• Coordinate with enterprise security architects on web-specific compliance obligations and emerging threat landscapes

Content & CMS engineering

• Own the technical foundations of the CMS platform , infrastructure, integrations, content delivery performance, and publishing workflow engineering
• Enable non-technical content authors with reliable, well-documented publishing tools that don't require engineering intervention for standard updates
• Maintain structured content models, SEO and GEO technical foundations, and metadata standards across the platform
• Partner with marketing and communications stakeholders to ensure content tooling meets business needs without compromising platform stability

Engineering leadership & culture

• Lead a full-stack engineering team, recruiting, developing, and retaining engineers who can work across UI, integration, and platform layers
• Actively participate in technical decisions and conduct code reviews, challenge architectural choices, and shape solutions alongside the team rather than managing from a distance
• Establish and enforce a strong engineering culture: code review discipline, tech debt budget per sprint, shared definition of done, and blameless post-mortems
• Run agile ceremonies with full context on the sprint, the codebase, and the team - planning, refinement, retros, and demos that drive genuine improvement
• Own the team's slice of the single prioritized backlog, ensuring stories are ready, sequenced, and aligned to the digital org's corporate goals and product launch timelines
• Use delivery metrics; velocity, lead time, cycle time, and defect escape rate as coaching tools to improve team performance, not just as reporting inputs

Delivery & platform health

• Deliver web platform improvements and new capabilities on schedule, within quality standards, and with minimal production incidents
• Ensure all web releases follow the defined release management and deployment process - contributing to a streamlined, domain-owned release cadence
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, platform stability risks, and aging infrastructure, raising issues to the Architecture domain and Integration & Platform teams as needed
• Maintain SLAs for web platform availability and performance, escalating risks before they impact customers or financial professionals

What you bring

Required

• 6-8 years of experience in IT delivery, with at least 3 years leading and managing engineering teams
• Demonstrated engineering background, must be able to conduct meaningful code reviews, evaluate technical tradeoffs, shape architecture decisions, and engage credibly with engineers on implementation details
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend development (React, Angular, or equivalent frameworks) and the ability to assess frontend code quality
• Experience owning web security implementation, authentication, session management, CSP, vulnerability remediation in a production digital environment
• Proven track record of leading agile teams with sprint planning, backlog management, and delivery execution in a fast-moving product environment
• Experience with web performance engineering and Core Web Vitals, profiling tools, caching strategies, and CDN management
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Preferred

• Experience in financial services or insurance digital platforms familiarity with the regulatory and compliance constraints of customer-facing financial tools
• Experience with CMS platforms and headless content delivery architecture
• Familiarity with AWS web hosting, CloudFront, and cloud-native web deployment patterns
• Experience managing teams through legacy modernization and technology stack upgrades
• Experience working within a full-stack engineering model teams that span UI, integration, and data layers without discipline silos

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes health insurance, company bonus scheme, 401(K) with company match, company paid holidays, paid time off, paid volunteer days, tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, an employee shares program and employee discounts From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• The annualized base pay range for this role is $140,000 - 170,000. The annual base salary range represents a nationwide market range. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role, and the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate. The base pay is just one component of the ATA total compensation package. As part of our comprehensive compensation and highly rated benefits programs, ATA also offers eligibility for an incentive-based annual bonus.

About Allianz Technology

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer. 

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future - for our customers and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture. 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

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