Vice President of Engineering (Insurance Domain)
Posted 4 days ago by Adroit People Limited (UK)
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Vice President of Engineering will lead the strategic vision and roadmap for products within the insurance domain, ensuring alignment between technology and business objectives. This role involves overseeing the software development lifecycle, enhancing systems and technologies, and providing high-level technical support. The VP will also evaluate new technologies and prepare business cases to improve business processes while maintaining compliance with enterprise transformation activities.
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.
- Good general business acumen.
- Thorough knowledge of databases technologies, both relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and non-relational database technologies 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: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Role: VP Engineering
Location: London, UK
Contract position- Initially 6 months (Possible Extension)
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
- 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.
- 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