Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Overview

As a global market leader, iPipeline combines technology, innovation, and expertise to deliver ground-breaking, award-winning software solutions that transform the life insurance, financial services, and protection industries. With one of the industry’s largest data sets, we help advisors/advisers and agents to transform paper and manual operations into a secure, seamless digital experience – from proposal to commission– so they can help better secure the financial futures of their clients.

 

At iPipeline, you’ll play a major role in helping us to provide best-in-class, transformative solutions. We’re passionate, creative, and innovative, and together as a team, we continually strive to advance, accelerate, and expand the reach of our technology. We value different perspectives and are committed to creating an environment that embraces diverse backgrounds and fosters inclusion.

 

We’re proud that we’ve been recognized  as a repeat winner of various industry  awards, demonstrating our excellence and highlighting us as a top workplace in both the US and the UK. We believe that the culture we’ve built for our nearly 900 employees around the word is exceptional -- and we’ve created a place where our employees love to come to work, every single day.

 

Come join our team!

 

About iPipeline

Founded in 1995, iPipeline operates as  a business unit of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq:  ROP), a constituent of the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500®, and Fortune 1000® indices. iPipeline is a leading global provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance and financial services industries in North America, and life insurance and pensions industries in the UK. We couple one of the most expansive digital and automated platforms with one of the industry’s largest data libraries to accelerate, automate, and simplify various applications, processes, and workflows – from quote to commission ��� with seamless integration. Our vision is to help everyone achieve lasting financial security by delivering innovative solutions that connect, simplify, and transform the industry.  

 

iPipeline is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, religious creed, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, and/or protected veteran status. We are committed to building a supportive and inclusive environment for all employees.

 

This is an office-based position.

Responsibilities

Job Summary:

The Senior Manager, Platform Engineering manages the activities of first-level managers and/or group leaders and individual contributors responsible for designing, building, and evolving the Company's cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks, observability architecture, and engineering standards. This leader is responsible for day-to-day operations and leading teams, projects, or functional area and focuses on achieving specific goals, driving performance, and ensuring team cohesion. The Senior Manager champions and enables change that results in impactful business outcomes while advancing platform maturity, migration execution, and next-generation cloud capabilities.

 

Platform Engineering:

• Manage multi-team delivery of IaC, CI/CD, and automation capabilities, ensuring cross-team coordination, consistent engineering standards, and alignment with the platform roadmap.
• Set team-level quality standards for IaC module development and CI/CD pipeline reliability. Drive adoption measurement and feedback loops with consuming teams (including Cloud Ops).
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline architecture decisions across teams, ensuring consistency, security-by-default integration, and alignment with release engineering patterns.
• Coordinate container platform delivery across teams, ensuring consistent cluster standards, namespace policies, and registry governance.
• Champion automation initiatives across managed teams, setting targets for toil reduction and tracking delivery velocity improvements.

Observability Suite Architecture:

• Manage multi-team delivery of observability platform components, ensuring cross-team consistency in instrumentation standards and data pipeline architecture.
• Coordinate observability platform delivery with Cloud Ops requirements, ensuring the platform supports their operational alerting, dashboarding, and on-call needs.
• Ensure observability-by-default is embedded across platform capabilities: every IaC module, CI/CD pipeline, and platform service includes baseline telemetry.
• Coordinate AI/ML observability delivery with Data Sci