Vice President - Engineering - Insurance Domain

Vice President - Engineering - Insurance Domain

Posted 4 days ago by Infoplus Technologies UK Limited

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Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
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Summary: The Vice President of Engineering will lead the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within the insurance domain, ensuring alignment between technology and business objectives. This role involves overseeing the software development lifecycle, managing technology contributions to business strategies, and ensuring compliance with enterprise transformation activities. The VP will also be responsible for fostering collaboration with IT managers and customers to enhance business processes through technology.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within their domain.
  • Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases.
  • Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
  • Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies.
  • Monitors all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels. Ensures high level technical support is provided.
  • Works closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes.
  • Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability.
  • Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies.
  • Contributes to the development of information technology development standards, policies, processes and procedures to ensure consistent compatibility and integration throughout the company.
  • Continuously reviews the technology needs of supported business functions/processes relative to new technological developments and trends. Keeps abreast of the industry and emerging technology.

Key Skills:

  • Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods and best practices. Proficiency with various programming languages.
  • Knowledge of application test automation products, processes, and best practices.
  • Proven experience and strong understanding of Agile development and conventional method and its application to company technology needs.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead and motivate team.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective collaboration with senior management.
  • Good general business acumen.
  • Thorough knowledge of databases technologies, both relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and non-relational database technologies as such as Memcached, MongoDB and Redis.
  • Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data.
  • High level knowledge/expertise of Front-end development such as: ReactJS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Accessibility and Responsive Layouts UI/UX development experience.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

The Role: VP Engineering

Location: London, UK (2 or 3 days)

Role type: Inside IR35 Contract

Job Description:

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within their domain.
  • Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases.
  • Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
  • Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies.
  • Monitors all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels. Ensures high level technical support is provided.
  • Works closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes.
  • Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability.
  • Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies.
  • Contributes to the development of information technology development standards, policies, processes and procedures to ensure consistent compatibility and integration throughout the company.
  • Continuously reviews the technology needs of supported business functions/processes relative to new technological developments and trends. Keeps abreast of the industry and emerging technology.

Skills:

  • 1. Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods and best practices. Proficiency with various programming languages.
  • 2. Knowledge of application test automation products, processes, and best practices.
  • 3. Proven experience and strong understanding of Agile development and conventional method and its application to company technology needs.
  • 4. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead and motivate team.
  • 5. Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective collaboration with senior management.
  • 6. Good general business acumen.
  • 7. Thorough knowledge of databases technologies, both relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and non-relational database technologies as such as Memcached, MongoDB and Redis.
  • 8. Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data.
  • 9. High level knowledge/expertise of Front-end development such as: ReactJS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Accessibility and Responsive Layouts UI/UX development experience.
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