AVP, Policy Administration Strategy & Architecture

Pacific Life

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Work type
On-site
Location
Newport Beach, CACharlotte, NCOmaha, NE
Salary
$210,000–$260,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
124 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

Pacific Life currently has 57 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $145,080–$177,320 across 36 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · AVP, Policy Administration Strategy & Architecture

The AVP, Policy Administration Strategy & Architecture joins the Consumer Markets Division to drive the strategic direction and execution of policy administration systems. This role focuses on advancing capabilities through digitization, automation, and AI enablement to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions. You will lead the technical strategy and architecture for core administration systems, partnering with business leaders in a two-in-a-box model to co-own outcomes. Key responsibilities include defining technology roadmaps, decoupling legacy components, and leading engineering teams through agile and DevSecOps practices. You will manage the FAST platform, overseeing orchestration layers, APIs, and integration patterns. The role requires expertise in life and annuity insurance products, SaaS platforms, and core insurance operations to solve complex modernization challenges and improve straight-through processing and data quality.

What you'll do

  • Define and evolve the technology strategy and capability roadmap for Policy Administration systems.
  • Partner with business leadership to co-own shared OKRs and measurable business outcomes.
  • Drive modernization by decoupling legacy components and adopting next-gen platforms and AI-driven capabilities.
  • Lead dedicated engineering teams to deliver core Policy Administration platforms using agile and DevOps practices.
  • Translate business needs into actionable delivery plans, including roadmaps, epics, and user stories.
  • Own architectural decisions to ensure platform scalability, modularity, resiliency, and reuse.
  • Build, mentor, and retain high-performing teams of employees, contractors, and partners.
  • Set delivery quality standards across design, build, testing, training, launch, and support.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in technology leadership roles, ideally within life and annuity insurance.
  • Experience leading policy administration systems and large-scale modernization initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of annuity/life products and core insurance operations.
  • Proven ability to lead architecture and delivery across complex platforms and integrations.
  • Experience with SaaS platforms and integrating SaaS with core administration systems.
  • Strong command of agile delivery, product-centric operating models, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Executive-level stakeholder influence and communication skills.
  • Experience managing hybrid teams and vendor/partner relationships.

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