Lead Developer/Manager

The Lead Developer/Manager is a hands-on technical and people leader responsible for building, modernizing, and operating technology across Transamerica’s Actuarial organization. You will lead engineers, analysts, and testers supporting business-critical systems, cloud-native platforms, data engineering, grid computing, automation, and AI-driven solutions.

You will drive major platform capabilities such as operational monitoring, automated remediation, and AI-driven research and analysis while owning team performance, talent development, workforce planning, delivery execution, and engineering excellence. The role partners closely with actuarial, technology, and finance teams across our Life, Health, Retirement, and Annuity businesses.

Our actuarial systems produce the numbers the company reports and the calculations behind the products we sell. The supporting technology estate includes cloud-native services, data platforms, batch and grid workloads, legacy applications, integrations, automation, and emerging AI capabilities.

We are building software that can monitor this estate, explain failures, recommend resolutions, and, with appropriate approval, carry out corrective action. At the same time, we continue to maintain and modernize the applications, pipelines, and platforms the business depends on every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts, and testers, setting clear expectations and accountability.
• Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain high-performing talent with the skills needed for today’s portfolio and future modernization.
• Set goals, provide timely feedback, conduct performance and career discussions, and create individual development plans.
• Manage team capacity, priorities, hiring, and the effective use of employees and contractors across distributed locations.
• Create an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on engineering excellence, continuous learning, delivery, and production ownership.
• Own applications and platform capabilities end to end, from architecture and delivery through production support, modernization, and retirement.
• Lead delivery across legacy applications, cloud-native services, data platforms, batch and grid processing, automation, and AI solutions.
• Design and ship scalable Python and AWS solutions using serverless, event-driven, integration, and data-intensive patterns.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and reporting layers using SQL, PySpark, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Airflow, and DBT.
• Develop, Support and modernize VB, .NET, Informatica, and other established applications, making pragmatic decisions to enhance, migrate, replace, or retire capabilities.
• Design and operate workloads across EC2, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, and distributed/grid-computing environments.
• Set engineering standards for design, code review, testing, infrastructure as code, GitHub, Harness CI/CD, Snyk scanning, Control-M scheduling, ServiceNow ITSM, and production monitoring.
• Resolve complex production issues across applications, infrastructure, data pipelines, integrations, and AI workloads, and drive permanent corrective action.
• Partner with actuarial, technology and finance teams to translate business needs into practical solutions and explain technical trade-offs clearly.
• Lead architecture, security, and change reviews with strong controls for auditability, least privilege, resilience, data protection, and human oversight.
• Balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, delivery oversight, stakeholder engagement, and operational accountability.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience directly managing engineers, analysts, testers, or other multidisciplinary technology professionals.
• Proven ability to recruit, onboard, coach, develop, motivate, and retain strong technical talent.
• Experience setting goals, providing actionable feedback, managing performance, and supporting career-development plans.
• Experience with workforce planning, capacity management, succession planning, skills assessment, and employee and contractor staffing decisions.
• Ability to build an inclusive, accountable team culture and lead through organizational and technology change.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Substantial software engineering experience with accountability for business-critical production systems.
• Strong hands-on Python skills and experience designing, debugging, reviewing, and supporting production software.
• Deep AWS experience across serverless, containers, event-driven systems, APIs, security, infrastructure, and multi-account environments.
• Experience with AWS Glue, Airflow, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, PySpark, EC2, ECS, Fargate, and Lambda.
• Strong SQL, NoSQL, and data-engineering fundamentals, including production pipelines and shared datasets.
• Practical large language model experience, including prompting, retrieval, tools, context, model selection, cost, and latency, ideally using Amazon Bedrock.
• Experience with an agent framework and a clear understanding of failure modes in multi-step agent systems.
• Experience using evaluation, observability, and production evidence to make software and AI release decisions.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automated testing, GitHub, Harness, Snyk, Control-M, ServiceNow ITSM, and production monitoring.
• Ability to lead across modern and legacy technology stacks without disrupting critical business operations.
• Sound judgment across reliability, security, performance, cost, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Strong written and verbal communication with actuarial, finance, engineering, and leadership audiences.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in insurance, actuarial, finance, or another regulated environment where accuracy, controls, traceability, and reliability matter.
• Familiarity with valuation, experience studies, financial reporting, model management, or assumption management.
• Experience modernizing a large application portfolio while safely operating existing systems.
• Experience with distributed, high-performance, or grid-computing workloads.
• Experience with DBT, .NET, VB, and Informatica.
• Familiarity with emerging agent standards, including tool and context protocols, agent-to-agent interoperability, packaged skills, and registries.
• Experience with agent observability, evaluation, and tracing failed agent runs to root cause.
• Experience with agentic development tools such as Kiro and disciplined review of AI-generated code.
• Experience collaborating across. Geographically distributed teams.

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health package
• Cafeteria
• All You Can Move
• Brand new office at an excellent location
• Hybrid working
• Opportunities for growth and advancement
• A highly people-centric, positive, and supportive work environment

Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in Schiphol, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, a goal that runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China, and an Asset Management organization with locations in the UK, US, NL, and Hungary. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via strategic shareholding in a market-leading insurance and pensions company.

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is supporting these businesses with IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit, and Asset management services with a growing team of approx. 300 people, based in Budapest, Hungary.

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is Aegon’s global partner based in Budapest, Hungary, supporting Aegon headquarters and businesses all around the world.

We are working in global teams providing IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit and Asset management services. Our goal is to help people live their best lives and to build a community for our more than 300 colleagues, where we inspire each other to get the most out of ourselves every day in a fun and challenging environment.

At Aegon, we foster a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We are a people business, and we recognize that delivering excellent client outcomes comes from harnessing distinct perspectives. We value diversity in the full range of human uniqueness without limitation, including race, gender, ability, language, culture, beliefs, age, origin, background, perspectives, and experiences.