Penn Mutual

Provide technical leadership for brokerage technology, define architecture and roadmaps, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers. | Requires a technical bachelor’s degree, at least nine years of relevant software development experience with significant leadership, and deep expertise in AWS serverless, cloud-native data architecture, and distributed systems. | Job Description: We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will provide technical leadership for Penn Mutual’s Brokerage and RIA Technology Team, helping shape the architecture and technical direction of its platforms and systems. You will lead complex initiatives, influence technical decisions across teams, and ensure solutions align with business needs and long-term technology strategy. While remaining hands-on in engineering and solution delivery, you will expand your impact through architecture, technical standards, reusable patterns, mentoring, and cross-team technical leadership. Responsibilities: Define and drive the technical direction and architecture for Penn Mutual’s Brokerage and RIA Technology Team and its associated platforms and systems. Partner with product, engineering, architecture, business, cybersecurity, and platform leaders to develop technical roadmaps aligned with business priorities and long-term technology strategy. Define architecture, reference patterns, engineering standards, and reusable capabilities for AWS serverless data integration across major platforms and multiple engineering teams. Architect complex solutions spanning multiple applications, services, data sources, integrations, and technology platforms. Lead major cross-team technical initiatives from initial analysis and solution design through implementation and operational adoption. Establish and drive adoption of technical standards, reference implementations, and reusable components that improve consistency and scalability across engineering teams. Lead architecture and design reviews, ensuring significant technical decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, and risks are clearly documented. Identify and address systemic technical risks, including dependencies, scalability constraints, security concerns, and operational weaknesses. Resolve complex technical challenges that span systems, teams, applications, or organizational boundaries. Balance near-term delivery priorities with long-term maintainability, modernization, reliability, and technical-debt reduction. Influence product and technology roadmaps through technical expertise and a strong understanding of business priorities. Mentor Senior Software Engineers and other engineers, helping develop technical leadership capabilities across the organization. Evaluate emerging technologies and lead prototypes or proofs of concept for strategically significant capabilities. Communicate technical direction, architectural decisions, and recommendations to engineering teams, architects, business leaders, and other stakeholders. Promote engineering excellence through automation, observability, testing, documentation, security, and operational discipline. Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Nine or more years of relevant software development experience, including significant technical leadership responsibilities. Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering complex solutions spanning multiple systems, applications, platforms, or engineering teams. Deep expertise in AWS serverless and cloud-native data architecture, including orchestration, messaging, APIs, security, networking, observability, resiliency, data governance, and infrastructure automation. Deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, integration approaches, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and operational resilience. Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages, with the ability to contribute directly to solution design, development, prototyping, and technical reviews. Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and decisions across teams without relying on direct reporting authority. Experience establishing and driving adoption of reusable engineering patterns, technical standards, and platform capabilities. Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve cross-team technical risks, dependencies, and complex technical challenges. Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain architecture decisions, technical recommendations, and trade-offs to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and strengthen technical and engineering capabilities across teams. Preferred Qualifications Experience leading architecture for cloud-native, enterprise integration, data platform, or distributed systems initiatives. Experience with major cloud platforms and technologies, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, containerization, serverless computing, or managed data services. Experience with architecture modeling, architecture decision records, reference architectures, and technology roadmap development. Experience establishing enterprise architecture and engineering patterns using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, EMR, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, S3, Athena, Lake Formation, Glue Data Catalog, and DynamoDB, as well as infrastructure-as-code technologies. Experience working in a regulated industry with security, audit, privacy, and data governance requirements. Relevant certifications in cloud architecture, security, software engineering, data engineering, or related technical disciplines. Experience with wealth management technology within a broker-dealer or Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) environment. Base Salary Range: $150,000 - $165,000 For over 175 years, Penn Mutual has empowered individuals, families and businesses on the journey to achieve their financial goals. Through our partnership with Financial Professionals across the U.S., we help instill the confidence and reliability that comes from a stronger financial future. Penn Mutual and its affiliates offer a comprehensive suite of competitive products and services to meet the unique needs of Financial Professionals and their clients, including life insurance, annuities, wealth management and institutional asset management. To learn more, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.pennmutual.com. Penn Mutual is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We provide employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified applicants and associates, according to applicable laws. This is reflected in our practices for hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment, compensation, selection or training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All employment-related decisions and practices are free from unlawful discrimination. This includes: race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship age, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, domestic partnership or civil union status, marital status, genetic information, disability, religious observance or practice, liability, veteran status or any other classification protected under applicable law.

Lead reliability strategy, architecture, and incident management for critical systems in a regulated financial environment. | 6–10+ years in SRE or software engineering with AWS and distributed systems expertise, bachelor's degree, strong programming and incident response experience. | Job Description: Penn Mutual is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior SRE) to help evolve reliability practices across business-critical systems in a highly regulated financial services environment. This role is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing reliability across complex, distributed systems. You will deliver reliability strategy through automation, observability, and architectural guidance while remaining hands-on in development, release, and incident triage. Senior SREs operate with significant autonomy, tackle ambiguous problems, and influence system design upstream with the overall goal of delivering change in reliable and measurable ways to key stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Reliability Strategy & Architecture Lead reliability availability, scalability, and recovery design for critical systems. Define and evolve SLOs, SLIs, and error budget practices across services. Identify systemic reliability risks and drive cross-team remediation efforts. Influence application and platform architecture to improve operational outcomes. Advanced Incident Management Act as a technical lead during major incidents and complex outages. Drive high-quality root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions. Improve incident response processes, tooling, and runbooks. Automation & Engineering Excellence Design and implement advanced automation to eliminate operational toil at scale. Build and maintain shared SRE tooling and platforms. Set engineering standards for reliability-focused code and operational practices. Review and improve CI/CD, deployment, and rollback strategies. Release & Change Leadership Partner with Release and Change Management to automate release practices. Lead risk assessments for high impact changes and releases. Ensure compliance requirements are met without sacrificing engineering velocity. Serve as a reliability authority for release readiness decisions. Mentorship & Influence Mentor junior SREs and junior engineers through technical guidance and review. Lead by example in operational excellence and engineering rigor. Influence reliability culture across engineering and product teams. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 6–10+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, platform, or DevOps roles. Professional experience in performing root cause analysis on incidents, documenting SRE systems and usage. Strong programming skills with professional experience in multiple languages. Deep experience with AWS and distributed systems. Advanced knowledge of observability, ITSM, and reliability engineering principles. Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated environments. Experience with use/implementation of observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing) Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Experience with Root Cause Analysis investigation/documentation Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies. Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience with IaC (CloudFormation). Experience with application frameworks (Spring, Spring Boot, React, Angular) Experience with application servers/containers (Tomcat, Netty, Node.JS, Next.JS) Experience with relational and non-relational databases and related ORM/drivers. Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. Experience with ITSM tools (ServiceNow or similar). Experience with ITIL-aligned change and release processes. Familiarity of security compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2). Base Salary Range - $128,000-$165,000 For over 175 years, Penn Mutual has empowered individuals, families and businesses on the journey to achieve their financial goals. Through our partnership with Financial Professionals across the U.S., we help instill the confidence and reliability that comes from a stronger financial future. Penn Mutual and its affiliates offer a comprehensive suite of competitive products and services to meet the unique needs of Financial Professionals and their clients, including life insurance, annuities, wealth management and institutional asset management. To learn more, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.pennmutual.com. Penn Mutual is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We provide employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified applicants and associates, according to applicable laws. This is reflected in our practices for hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment, compensation, selection or training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All employment-related decisions and practices are free from unlawful discrimination. This includes: race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship age, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, domestic partnership or civil union status, marital status, genetic information, disability, religious observance or practice, liability, veteran status or any other classification protected under applicable law.

Serve as trusted advisor driving talent strategies, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, associate relations, change initiatives, and workforce data analysis. | Bachelor's degree and 8+ years HR experience required; master's degree, HR certifications, and financial services experience preferred. | Job Description: People are our business and our passion. As a trusted and strategic partner for those we serve, we strive to bring out the best in our people, teams, and company. We do this by creating and sustaining a values-driven, relationship-based culture where we take pride in doing the right thing, both today and tomorrow. The Senior HR Business Partner serves as a trusted advisor to leaders and teams, helping to shape talent strategies, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and support business objectives. This role partners closely with leaders across the organization to drive engagement, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, talent development, and change initiatives while ensuring an exceptional associate experience. We've embraced a flexible, hybrid approach to work. Based on your role and personal preference, we empower you to choose where you work best. Responsibilities • Partner with leaders and teams to align people strategies with business priorities and organizational goals. • Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders on organizational effectiveness, leadership development, employee engagement, talent management, and change leadership. • Provide strategic guidance and support related to performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, and workforce planning. • Consult with leaders on complex associate relations matters, policy interpretation, and organizational challenges while balancing business needs and risk mitigation. • Lead and support organizational change initiatives, helping leaders navigate growth, transformation, and evolving business needs. • Analyze workforce and talent data, identify trends, and make recommendations to improve engagement, retention, performance, and organizational effectiveness. • Partner with Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, and other HR Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated talent solutions. • Conduct investigations and partner with Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders as appropriate. • Participate in and lead cross-functional projects that advance people, culture, and business priorities. • Champion Penn Mutual's values, culture, and commitment to an exceptional associate experience. Skills and Abilities • Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships, influence outcomes, and effectively partner with leaders at all levels. • Strong business acumen with the ability to align people strategies to organizational objectives. • Proven leadership coaching, consulting, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive results in a dynamic environment. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, supported by sound judgment and discretion. • Collaborative, resourceful, and highly effective at influencing across teams and functions without direct authority. Education • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required. Master’s degree in Human Resources preferred. • PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification preferred. Experience • 8+ years of progressive Human Resources experience, including HR Business Partner, Employee Relations, Organizational Development, Talent Management, or related leadership support responsibilities. • Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience preferred. Base Salary Range - $155,000 - $175,000 For over 175 years, Penn Mutual has empowered individuals, families and businesses on the journey to achieve their financial goals. Through our partnership with Financial Professionals across the U.S., we help instill the confidence and reliability that comes from a stronger financial future. Penn Mutual and its affiliates offer a comprehensive suite of competitive products and services to meet the unique needs of Financial Professionals and their clients, including life insurance, annuities, wealth management and institutional asset management. To learn more, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.pennmutual.com. Penn Mutual is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We provide employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified applicants and associates, according to applicable laws. This is reflected in our practices for hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment, compensation, selection or training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All employment-related decisions and practices are free from unlawful discrimination. This includes: race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship age, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, domestic partnership or civil union status, marital status, genetic information, disability, religious observance or practice, liability, veteran status or any other classification protected under applicable law.