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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.
RGA’s Security Architecture & Controls organization is seeking a senior individual contributor to own portfolio management, delivery rigor, and process engineering for the security strategy agenda.
This role sits at the intersection of security strategy, operational execution, and enterprise delivery, ensuring that security initiatives move from concept to measurable, repeatable outcomes. Reporting to the VP of Security Architecture & Controls, this position acts as the single-threaded owner for how security work is intaked/collected, structured, prioritized, executed, measured, and continuously improved.
This is not a traditional security architect role, nor a pure project manager. The successful candidate is closer to a portfolio manager and process engineer, with enough security fluency to operate credibly across architecture, risk, compliance, and platform teams — and enough delivery discipline to impose order where ambiguity currently exists.
Principle Duties
Security Portfolio Management & Intake
Own the end-to-end security initiative portfolio, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, and dependency management across Security Architecture & Controls.
Establish and run a structured intake process for new security initiatives, ensuring clarity on scope, objectives, success criteria, resourcing assumptions, and alignment to enterprise priorities.
Maintain a holistic, continuously current view of portfolio health; proactively surface delivery risks, resource constraints, and misalignment before they become blockers.
Partner with security leadership and initiative sponsors to evaluate tradeoffs, alternatives, and sequencing decisions in service of business outcomes.
Strategy-to-Execution Translation
Translate security strategy, regulatory drivers, and leadership directives into actionable roadmaps, epics, and work packages that delivery teams can execute against.
Break down complex, multi-quarter initiatives into structured plans with clear milestones, ownership, and success metrics.
Prepare executive- and leadership-facing materials that clearly communicate progress, risks, decisions required, and value delivered.
Process Engineering & Operationalization
Design, document, and continuously improve security operating processes across architecture, controls, risk, compliance, and delivery domains.
Identify where the organization is relying on tribal knowledge, ad hoc execution, or manual effort — and replace it with repeatable, scalable, auditable processes.
Act as the process owner for how security work flows through enterprise tooling (e.g., ServiceNow, GRC platforms), defining requirements and partnering with platform teams to implement and refine workflows.
Facilitate post-delivery reviews and lessons learned, driving concrete process improvements that increase delivery reliability and reduce friction over time.
Delivery Governance, Risk & Change Management
Impose delivery discipline through mature risk, issue, and change management practices across the security portfolio
Ensure transparent, regular communication of delivery status, risks, and blockers to stakeholders at all levels
Partner with finance and leadership to support capacity awareness, funding visibility, and prioritization decisions as initiatives evolve
Metrics, Reporting & Decision Support
Define and own the security portfolio metrics framework, including delivery performance, throughput, predictability, and outcome alignment
Translate complex delivery and security data into clear narratives that support leadership decision‑making
Continuously evaluate whether metrics are driving the right behaviors; retire, refine, or introduce measures as the organization matures
Qualifications
Required
8–10+ years of experience in portfolio management, program delivery, process engineering, or operational leadership, preferably within security, technology, or regulated environments
Demonstrated ability to create structure where little exists — designing intake models, operating rhythms, and delivery processes from first principles
Proven experience managing complex, cross‑functional portfolios with competing priorities and senior stakeholders
Strong understanding of risk, compliance, and governance concepts, and how they translate into operational security work
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief executives and produce clear process and delivery documentation
High comfort operating through influence rather than authority
Preferred
Experience in financial services, insurance, or other highly regulated industries
Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001) and regulatory-driven delivery
Experience operationalizing workflows in enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow or GRC tooling
Background in PMO, portfolio management, or large-scale transformation initiatives
What you can expect from RGA:
Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.
Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.
Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.
We’re excited to get to know you and connect your unique skills with our global opportunities. To create a modern and seamless experience, we use artificial intelligence (AI) in parts of our preliminary screening process. This technology helps us personalize job recommendations, automate interview scheduling, evaluate candidates based solely on experience—without considering name, gender, or other personal details—and provide real-time answers through our chatbot. AI is used only during early screening and never makes hiring decisions. Your RGA recruiter will work closely with you every step of the way to ensure the process feels personal, thoughtful, and focused on you.
Compensation Range:
$107,060.00 - $159,390.00 AnnualBase pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.
RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
