Horace Mann is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Domain Managing Architect – Cloud to lead our cloud strategy and execution across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be a thought leader and hands-on expert in modern cloud platforms, cloud technologies, enterprise architecture governance, AI technologies, and scalable architecture frameworks. This role partners closely with business and IT leadership, reports to the Director of Enterprise Architecture, and serves as a key advisor on enterprise cloud strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and execute the enterprise cloud strategy, including multi-year migration roadmaps across Azure and AWS for core insurance systems and supporting applications.
• Develop multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, including assessment, workload placement, portability, and decommissioning of legacy systems.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to implement scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud environments.
• Lead cloud migration programs, including rehost, re-platform, refactor, and rebuild strategies.
• Lead modernization efforts including legacy rationalization, decommissioning, and adoption of cloud-native and AI-ready platforms.
• Establish AI governance frameworks including model risk management, explainability, fairness, and compliance.
• Lead and approve Enterprise Architecture Assessments. including AI-enabled and cloud migration solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security, data, privacy, and responsible AI expectations.
• Drive landing zone design, cloud foundations, FinOps practices, and migration factory models to deliver predictable outcomes at scale.
• Provide end-to-end architecture leadership for large-scale transformation programs.
• Guide business domain architects and engineering teams through complex technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Identify and mitigate architecture risks, and technical debt.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience with 8+ years in architecture leadership roles
• Proven experience leading cloud transformation and legacy modernization programs at enterprise scale
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills in both technical and business contexts
• Brings broad cross-domain knowledge spanning enterprise and solution architecture, data platforms, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security to design scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions.
• Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF).
• Fluency in modern architecture practices, including cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
• Proven experience leading legacy modernization and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across complex technology landscapes.
• Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Expertise in creating architecture artifacts and diagrams (e.g., Visio, draw.io).
• Collaborate with business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering organizations to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions.
• Experience in risk management and executive-level presentations.
• Knowledge of FinOps and Cloud cost optimization strategies
• Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and drive consensus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the insurance industry is highly preferred.
• Experience implementing AI governance frameworks in regulated environments.
• Exposure to Agentic AI and Generative AI (LLMs, RAG, vector databases)

Certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, AWS SA).

Pay Range:

• $124,200.00 - $175,800.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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The Domain Managing Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across the Digital domains. This role leverages enterprise architecture disciplines, frameworks, and tools to ensure that technology solutions align with the long-term best interests of Horace Mann.

Key Responsibilities
•    Develop and maintain current, future, and transitional state architectures.
•    Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture models and diagrams.
•    Formulate and review high-level design documents.
•    Define, document, and govern architectural decisions across programs and projects.
•    Develop and enforce architecture policies, standards, and processes in partnership with the Chief Architect and CIO.
•    Identify and establish new enterprise building blocks and reusable architectural patterns.
•    Establish AI governance frameworks including model risk management, explainability, fairness, and compliance.
•    Lead and approve Enterprise Architecture Assessments. including AI-enabled and cloud migration solutions.
•    Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security, data, privacy, and responsible AI expectations.
•    Provide best-practice guidance in evaluating and selecting vendor products and technology platforms.
•    Partners with Solution Delivery teams, architects, and technical leads to maintain current, target, and transition architectures.
•    Facilitate consensus across diverse technical and business teams.
•    Lead modernization efforts including legacy rationalization, decommissioning, and adoption of cloud-native and AI-ready platforms.
•    Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences.
•    Identify and mitigate architecture risks, and technical debt.
 
Required Qualifications
•    10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles 
•    Proven experience leading cloud transformation and legacy modernization programs at enterprise scale 
•    Exceptional communication and leadership skills in both technical and business contexts
•    Brings broad cross-domain knowledge spanning enterprise and solution architecture, data platforms, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security to design scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions.
•    Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF).
•    Fluency in modern architecture practices, including cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
•    Proven experience leading legacy modernization and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across complex technology landscapes.
•    Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
•    Expertise in creating architecture artifacts and diagrams (e.g., Visio, draw.io).
•    Collaborate with business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering organizations to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions.
•    Experience in risk management and executive-level presentations.
•    Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and drive consensus.
•    Experience with digital transformation

Preferred Qualifications
•    Experience in the insurance industry is highly preferred.
•    Experience in the Customer, Distribution and Producer/Agent business domains
•    Experience implementing AI governance frameworks in regulated environments.
•    Exposure to Agentic AI and Generative AI (LLMs, RAG, vector databases) 
•    Certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, AWS SA).

Pay Range:

• $124,200.00 - $175,800.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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Horace Mann is a purpose-driven company that is passionate about educators. 

The Technical Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across the Life and Retirement domain. This role leverages enterprise architecture disciplines, frameworks, and tools to ensure technology solutions align with the long-term best interests of Horace Mann.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain current, future, and transitional state architectures.
• Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture diagrams.
• Formulate and review high-level design documents.
• Define, document, and govern architectural decisions across programs and projects.
• Develop and enforce architecture policies, standards, and processes in partnership with the Chief Architect and CIO.
• Identify and establish new enterprise building blocks and reusable architectural patterns.
• Guides architects and technical leads in aligning application development with architectural best practices.
• Provide best-practice guidance in evaluating and selecting vendor products and technology platforms.
• Lead risk identification and mitigation related to architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with Solution Delivery Partners, architects, and technical leads to maintain current, target, and transition architectures.
• Serve as a key contributor to strategic planning, roadmap development, and major program implementation.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Prepare and present executive-level recommendations.
• Establish best practices for architecture diagram development, governance, and repository management.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 6–9 years of relevant experience in architecture or related technical leadership roles.
• Brings broad cross-domain knowledge spanning enterprise and solution architecture, data platforms, integration, infrastructure, networking, and security to design scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions.
• Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF).
• Fluency in modern architecture practices, including cloud-native, microservices, event-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
• Fluency in legacy modernization and enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across technology landscapes.
• Ability to define and govern enterprise architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Expertise in creating architecture artifacts and diagrams (e.g., Visio, draw.io).
• Collaborate with business leaders, IT leadership, and engineering organizations to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and drive consensus.

Experience in the insurance industry is preferred.

Pay Range:

• $105,200.00 - $147,950.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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The Software Engineer II is a mid-level engineering role responsible for the design, development, maintenance, and enhancement of software applications and systems. This role operates with a high degree of autonomy on development and maintenance activities while collaborating cross-functionally to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality solutions. The engineer contributes to innovation, process improvement, and technical excellence across the organization.

Software Development & Delivery

• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications and systems.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Implement enhancements, upgrades, and patches to existing applications.
• Diagnose and resolve system defects, performance issues, and production incidents.
• Ensure application performance, reliability, and quality standards are met.

Technical Execution & Innovation

• Contribute to continuous improvement through research and application of new and existing technologies.
• Participate in proof-of-concept (POC) efforts to evaluate solutions supporting business and technology initiatives.
• Support enterprise application portfolio strategies and modernization efforts.
• Create, maintain, and enhance reusable components and packages (e.g., NuGet, NPM).

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Support

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyze user needs, and deliver effective solutions.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve system stability through CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Partner with team members and stakeholders to support project planning, problem-solving, and execution.
• Provide guidance and feedback to junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Operational Support & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain and support existing applications, ensuring ongoing stability and performance.
• Respond to inquiries, issues, and service requests in a timely and professional manner.
• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, tools, and team effectiveness.
• Contribute to enhancing development capabilities and engineering best practices across teams.

Qualifications

Professional Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 2–4 years of experience in software development, analysis, and coding.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and project lifecycle principles.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with web technologies, APIs, and/or scripting tools.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems.

Core Competencies

Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking

• Ability to diagnose issues, analyze requirements, and deliver effective solutions.

Collaboration & Communication

• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Professional communication when working with business partners and external vendors.

Ownership & Execution

• Capable of working independently on assigned tasks while contributing to team goals.
• Takes accountability for delivering high-quality work on time.

Continuous Learning & Mentorship

• Actively develops technical skills and stays current with emerging technologies.
• Supports and mentors less experienced team members.

Pay Range:

• $76,600.00 - $106,450.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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The IT Engagement Coordinator plays a critical role in connecting business demand with IT delivery execution. This role ensures that work flows efficiently from intake through delivery by coordinating across business partners and cross-functional IT teams. The coordinator promotes visibility, alignment, and operational efficiency across the IT/Digital portfolio while supporting consistent, high-quality engagement practices.

Intake Facilitation & Workflow Management

• Serve as the initial point of contact for Digital/IT intake requests, ensuring submissions are clearly defined, categorized, and routed appropriately.
• Coordinate intake activities to ensure efficient progression from request through delivery.
• Ensure intake artifacts are complete, accurate, and actionable.
• Support intake decisions within established governance and prioritization frameworks.
• Facilitate early discovery activities in partnership with Business Analysts (BA) and User Experience (UX) teams to reduce rework.
• Maintain visibility of work across intake and delivery stages for multiple teams.
• Communicate updates on priorities, timelines, and decisions to stakeholders.
• Ensure consistent tracking and resolution of questions, issues, and changes throughout the lifecycle.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Act as a central coordination point between business partners and delivery teams, including BA, QA, UXD, and development.
• Support delivery readiness by coordinating handoffs and aligning work across teams.
• Identify workflow gaps and help drive alignment across projects, enhancements, and operational work.
• Ensure work remains visible, prioritized, and progressing according to plan.

Metrics, Reporting & Operational Insights

• Track and maintain operational and portfolio metrics (e.g., intake volume, throughput, backlog health).
• Develop reporting views that enhance transparency and support decision-making.
• Identify trends, risks, and constraints, escalating as needed.
• Provide insights to improve prioritization, capacity planning, and delivery performance.

Process Improvement

• Identify inefficiencies in intake and delivery workflows.
• Recommend and support implementation of process improvements that increase consistency and reduce delays.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the IT/Digital organization.

AI-Enabled Ways of Working

• Leverage AI-enabled tools to enhance intake clarity, documentation quality, workflow analysis, and reporting.
• Promote practical and responsible use of AI to improve speed, efficiency, and quality of work.
• Support adoption of emerging tools and best practices across teams.

Qualifications

Professional Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2–5 years of experience in IT coordination, delivery operations, intake/workflow management, or a related role.

Skills & Competencies

Relationship & Communication

• Strong ability to build relationships across business and IT stakeholders.
• Clear and effective communicator, able to simplify complex information.
• Skilled in facilitating discussions to clarify scope, priorities, and ownership.

Operational & Analytical Strength

• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret metrics and identify bottlenecks.
• Comfortable making intake and workflow decisions within defined frameworks.

Delivery Knowledge

• Solid understanding of SDLC and IT delivery practices.
• Experience supporting intake processes and coordinating workflows.
• Ability to support consistent handoffs and identify gaps in delivery processes.

Pay Range:

• $66,500.00 - $92,000.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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The Guidewire PolicyCenter Business Systems Analyst serves as a critical liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, driving the successful delivery of insurance policy administration solutions. This role is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and translating business requirements into functional specifications within the Guidewire PolicyCenter platform.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with underwriting, product, and operations teams to understand business needs; configuring and supporting PolicyCenter functionalities; facilitating workshops and backlog refinement; and ensuring solutions align with business objectives and regulatory requirements. The analyst partners closely with developers, QA teams, and product owners to support design, testing, and implementation activities across the software development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate brings strong knowledge of Property & Casualty insurance processes, hands-on experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter, and demonstrated skills in requirements elicitation, Agile delivery, and stakeholder communication. A focus on problem-solving, continuous improvement, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions is essential for success in this role. Up to date Guidewire Analyst ACE certification is required.

Pay Range:

• $66,500.00 - $92,000.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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At Horace Mann, we are driven by a passion for supporting educators and helping them achieve lifelong financial success. As an Application Systems Analyst Programmer, you will play a critical role in supporting, configuring, and enhancing business applications across the organization.

In this role, you will analyze user issues and enhancement requests, identify root causes, and deliver effective, cost-efficient solutions aligned with business objectives. You will serve as a key liaison between business partners and IT, ensuring systems are reliable, efficient, and user-friendly.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for application-related issues and user inquiries

• Troubleshoot, analyze, and document system issues; recommend and implement solutions

• Communicate issue status, timelines, and resolutions clearly to stakeholders

• Provide technical support, user guidance, and training as needed

• Assist with data access, reporting, and enabling user self-service capabilities

• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Developers to design and implement system enhancements

• Develop and execute test plans to validate system changes and ensure quality

• Support help desk requests and resolve technical issues in a timely manner

• Maintain a strong understanding of business processes and supported systems

• Configure insurance products, workflows, and processing rules

• Participate in an on-call rotation to monitor nightly production cycles

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

• Working knowledge of enterprise applications and IT-supported systems

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with system testing and release validation

• Familiarity with reporting tools and data analysis

• Experience with policy administration or claims systems

• Experience with LifePRO, Hyland Perceptive, and/or Online ToolWorks SmartBatch

• Knowledge of insurance products (Annuities, Life, IUL, Supplemental Health, Group Health, Group Life)

• Experience with SQL

Salary Range:

$57,500.00 - $79,100.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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Within the P&C domain, this role supports modernization of the data ecosystem including transition from DHIC (DataHub/InfoCenter) to a CDA (Cloud Data Access) architecture that enables access to Guidewire base tables. The role contributes to building consolidated data assets combining Guidewire with legacy P&C mainframe systems.  Support the phased transition from DHIC reporting structures to CDA-based data access framework.  Experience with Guidewire platforms (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter) and familiarity with Guidewire data models.  Experience working with Guidewire DHIC and CDA (Cloud Data Access) frameworks required.  

This position has a wide degree of autonomy, and the incumbent must have the ability to move projects forward based on experience and industry standards.  The position is charged with:

•    Anticipating IT industry future directions and relates it to (Horace Mann) evolving needs This includes evolving enterprise data architecture and Guidewire platform capabilities.
•    Applying expertise for the development, specification and communication of the technology architecture that is applicable to their domain
•    Conforms and contributes to standards and environment needs
•    Flexibility to effectively provide leadership when called upon to provide some project management for single project involving their area of technical expertise
•    Works on multiple projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments. Projects will include Guidewire data integration, P&C reporting solutions, and legacy system data consolidation.
•    Typically works on a defined set of solutions in all lifecycle stages for a particular business domain

This position is a seasoned subject matter expert in multiple technical roles. They must have the capacity to work on multiple projects as project leader or as the subject matter expert.

Challenges
•    Establishing, contributions to and team level enforcement of standards and processes
•    Interweaving technology enhancements into business initiatives
•    Proactively exploiting opportunities to improve the operation’s effectiveness and reduce cost
•    Keeping abreast of changes/innovations in the IT field and applying that knowledge in an effective and timely manner to Horace Mann IT practices
•    Establishing and communicating a cohesive technology direction in partnership with the business initiatives
•    Understanding and communicating how their portfolio cooperates and meets the needs of their business domain
•    Helping establish and communicate the changes needed to modernize the IT systems and business processes while maintaining operations and legacy support

Principle Accountabilities
•    Team conformance and contribution to standards
•    Technical solution planning to meet the needs of their business domain
•    Incorporating technology advancements into existing solutions
•    Communication
•    Team’s delivery of the technical portions of projects

Education and Experience 
Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Systems, or other related field, Or equivalent work experience.  4-6 years of IT work experience in multiple IT areas 1-2 years of project management experience.  Must have a commitment to continuing education.  Appropriate industry certification (s) a plus.

Required Competencies
•    Excellent oral and written communication with a strong sense of professionalism and tact.  Must be able to communicate effectively to IT and Business.
•    Self-motivated and goal-oriented individual.  Demonstrated record of initiative,  record of initiative, adaptability and decision making.
•    Proven ability to seek out and solve problems; go beyond the obvious to gain performance
•    Strong project management skills and solid team-player

Technology Competencies
•    Experience required with Guidewire CDA and DHIC 
•    Experience preferred with Snowflake data platform and cloud data warehousing.
•    Experience preferred with dbt (data build tool) for data transformations, testing, and documentation.
•    Strong experience with Guidewire platforms with an understanding of the data model.
•    Strong working knowledge of dependencies between software development and infrastructure design.
•    Specific to targeted platform – Expert level working knowledge of development and debugging tools
•    Strong working knowledge of database design and query including advanced SQL development for large insurance datasets.
•    Strong working knowledge of SDLC and Project Life Cycle principles
•    Expert level working knowledge of platform specific code repository products
•    Specific to targeted platform – strong working knowledge of client-side and server-side scripting
•    Strong design and documentation skills using tools and techniques such as pipeline design patterns,  DB design, and infrastructure diagrams.

Pay Range:

• $105,200.00 - $147,950.00  

Salary is commensurate to experience, location, etc.

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