Infrastructure Engineer – Enterprise (Architecture Design)

Infrastructure Engineer – Enterprise (Architecture Design)

Farm Bureau Financial Services is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer who will be accountable for developing and ensuring Infrastructure strategies and technical architectures meet short, medium and long-term business objectives.  This individual will drive future state technology discussions and take ownership of driving adoption of these technologies within the complex Infrastructure disciplines.  IF this sounds like you this opportunity could be a fit for you!

Who We Are: At Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We’re proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.

What you’ll do:

•  Partner with directors, application developers, technicians, and other engineers from IT areas to design and make recommendations for architecture improvement.
• Utilize effective written and oral communication skills to partner with business unit leaders and staff to outline the advantages, objectives, and options to both technical and business problems.
• Lead extensive collaboration between engineering peers to ensure that architecture and solution designs are rationalized and integrated across IT functions and business units.
• Analyze financial services industry and technology trends to determine potential impacts to our business and proactively partner with application and infrastructure teams to create road maps.
• Recommend technology direction and/or adjustments to incorporate in the business plans.
• Responsible for ongoing mentoring, training, and education of technical staff within their domain, to ensure skillsets are appropriate for current and future technologies.
• Research, design and implement new initiatives to improve implementation, administration and maintenance of infrastructure systems and tools.
• Accountable for assigned infrastructure systems and troubleshoot complex problems to ensure timely resolution.
• Work with external vendors molding strategic direction of vendor systems to support the strategic direction of Farm Bureau.

What it takes to join our team:

•  College degree or equivalent plus eight years relevant experience required.
• Experience with an emphasis on enterprise class infrastructure architecture.
• Cloud services, architectures, and standards preferred.
• Experience with cloud / virtualization / storage / networking / server technologies
• Four years’ experience in insurance or finance services preferred.
• Mastery of infrastructure design and implementation and technical best practices
• Strong analytical/conceptual thinking skills, technical systems knowledge, and problem-solving skills are required.
• Must have good customer service orientation, impact and influence, industry awareness, initiative, integrity, people savvy, relationship management and self-confidence skills.
• Must have or attain a strong understanding of all entities of the FBL Financial Group.
• Must understand the inter-relationship between business and technological needs.
• Strong oral and written communication skills targeting mixed technical and business-oriented audiences.
• Some travel required.

What We Offer You:

•  Health / Vision / Dental Insurance
• 401k with match
• Life and Disability insurance options
• PTO / Paid holidays / Volunteer Time
• Hybrid Flexibility
• Onsite gym with fitness classes and programs

Farm Bureau… where the grass really IS greener!

Work Authorization/Sponsorship: Currently, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.