Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IAT Insurance Group is the largest private, family-owned property and casualty insurer in the U.S. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Information Technology to lead infrastructure engineering and architecture teams, ensuring the delivery of essential infrastructure capabilities while establishing strong financial management practices. The role requires a focus on operational excellence, technology leadership, and team development to drive organizational effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support the infrastructure strategy and roadmap to ensure systems are highly available, scalable, and secure
- Drive consistent and disciplined execution across both strategic initiatives and operational work
- Ensure work is clearly defined, sequenced appropriately, and aligned to business priorities before execution begins
- Establish and monitor how infrastructure work flows across teams, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas of constraint
- Drive continuous improvement in how work is delivered, reducing rework, delays, and operational overhead
- Ensure effective transition of solutions into operations with clear ownership, monitoring, and support models
- Oversee evaluation, selection, and implementation of infrastructure technologies that scale effectively and support long term organizational needs
- Guide adoption of new technologies with a focus on operational readiness, maintainability, and measurable business impact
- Balance innovation with simplification, reducing unnecessary complexity across the environment
- Partner with security to ensure infrastructure architectures align to security policies and enterprise standards
- Lead regular reviews to proactively identify and address risks across infrastructure platforms
- Ensure security considerations are integrated into design and delivery, not added after deployment
- Build and lead a high performing engineering organization with a strong focus on accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement
- Develop leaders and teams who can operate across boundaries, collaborate effectively, and take ownership of outcomes
- Drive organizational effectiveness by improving processes, decision making, and alignment across teams
- Foster a culture that values simplicity, ownership, and delivering outcomes over activity
- Drive financial planning, forecasting, and expense management for infrastructure services
- Ensure effective allocation of resources across operational and strategic work
- Drive cost awareness and accountability while enabling the organization to scale
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field
- Minimum 7 years of IT infrastructure or security operations leadership experience
- Strong technical foundation across infrastructure engineering, architecture, or operations
- Proven track record of delivering infrastructure initiatives from strategy through execution
- Demonstrated ability to improve how work is planned, prioritized, and delivered across teams
- Ability to identify bottlenecks, manage competing priorities, and drive outcomes in complex environments
- Strong understanding of business risk and ability to make informed, risk-based decisions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts to both technical and executive audiences
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, security, and business partners
- Experience with vendor and contract management
- Broad understanding of modern infrastructure including cloud platforms, networking, end user computing, disaster recovery, and monitoring
- Strong organizational leadership capabilities with a focus on building high performing, accountable teams
- To qualify, applicants must be authorized to work in the United States and must not require VISA sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment purposes
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus opportunities
- 401(K) match
- Profit-sharing opportunities
- 26 PTO Days (Entry Level) + 12 Company Holidays = 38 Paid Days Off
- 7% 401(k) Company Match and additional Profit Sharing
- Hybrid work environment
- Numerous training and development opportunities to assist you in furthering your career
- Healthcare and Wellness Programs
- Opportunity to earn performance-based bonuses
- College Loan Assistance Support Plan
- Educational Assistance Program
- Mentorship Program
- Dress for Your Day Policy
Company Overview
IAT Insurance Group provides property-casualty insurance and surety carrier consulting services. It was founded in 1991, and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.iatinsurancegroup.com.