Development Manager PCL1

• Candidate should strengthen development team operations. The Dev P&C team is in the Open Engineering Department and manages customer facing applications used to create quote and buy insurance products in addition to internal facing applications used to manage policies and claims
  
• As the leader of Dev P&C team in Japan you will leverage your communication leadership and technical expertise skills to help define and implement best practices collaborate with stakeholders and build the skills and capacity of the dev team to deliver high quality and user satisfying software solutions
  

• Write and review code in a handson manner. Give expert advice and coaching to the engineers in your team. Manage team members to develop and implement operational targets and contribute to the achievement of the department s goals.
  

• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skill
  
• Take responsibility for communication with internal and external stakeholders. Reach agreement by fostering a sense of satisfaction even when stakeholders have different opinions
  

• Keep in touch with engineering trends and use this knowledge to form opinions on software architecture and technology to craft elegant scalable and innovative solutions to complex challenges. Direct the team to propose new initiatives that bring added value and contribute to the achievement of the departments and companys medium to longterm strategic goals
  

• Lead by example and be the technical subject matter expert with a broad understanding spanning both your own operational area and beyond. Develop and implement crossfunctional and crossdepartmental operational measures.
  

• Build your team up by identifying the skills and expertise necessary for success and working together with them to define roadmaps that motivate them to achieve even greater results
  

Requirements

• Prior experience in a technical leadership position
  
• A minimum of 7 years of experience as a software engineer developing web applications
  
• Technical competence with both front end and backend development
  
• Expertise with Java Gosu or another Java equivalent/similar language
  
• Business level Japanese and English language skills
  
• Willing to work on Guidewire etc software for insurance
  

• Competence with AWS GCP Azure or similar cloud application development
  
• Competent understanding of both SDLC and Agile development
  
• Competence with modern relational database operations and performance optimization
  
• Competence with APIs and microservice architecture
  
• Competence with code versioning tools
  
• Competence with code quality tools
  
• Competence with JS libraries and frameworks
  
• Guidewire Al Fresco experience
  
• Insurance or financial services industry experience
  
• Candidate will be able to:collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the quality of team s work meets expectations work autonomous
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the quality of team s work meets expectations work autonomously
  
• Hire and support the professional development of software engineers and team through appropriate feedback coaching goal setting mentoring and training
  
• Communicate effectively when speaking and writing
  
• Prioritize work of team to support production as appropriate
  
• Contribute to architecture analysis and design
  
• Understand technical requirements
  
• Resolve information gaps and ambiguity to make good and quick decisions on complex topics
  
• As an experienced subject matter expert lead discussions on technical subjects and guide others on best coding and security practices
  
• Conduct code reviews to give meaningful advice and feedback
  
• Create a safe environment that encourages growth mindset where all feel safe to share ideas
  
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field from accredited college/university or equivalent work experience
  

• Candidate should strengthen development team operations. The Dev P&C team is in the Open Engineering Department, and manages customer facing applications used to create, quote and buy insurance products in addition to internal facing applications used to manage policies and claims
  
• As the leader of Dev P&C team in Japan, you will leverage your communication, leadership and technical expertise skills to help define and implement best practices, collaborate with stakeholders and build the skills and capacity of the dev team to deliver high quality and user satisfying software solutions
  

• Write and review code in a hands-on manner. Give expert advice and coaching to the engineers in your team. Manage team members to develop and implement operational targets and contribute to the achievement of the department s goals.
  

• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skill
  
• Take responsibility for communication with internal and external stakeholders. Reach agreement by fostering a sense of satisfaction even when stakeholders have different opinions
  

• Keep in touch with engineering trends and use this knowledge to form opinions on software architecture and technology to craft elegant, scalable and innovative solutions to complex challenges. Direct the team to propose new initiatives that bring added value and contribute to the achievement of the departments and companys medium to long-term strategic goals
  

• Lead by example and be the technical subject matter expert, with a broad understanding spanning both your own operational area and beyond. Develop and implement cross-functional and cross-departmental operational measures.
  

• Build your team up, by identifying the skills and expertise necessary for success, and working together with them to define roadmaps that motivate them to achieve even greater results
  

Requirements

• Prior experience in a technical leadership position
  
• A minimum of 7 years of experience as a software engineer developing web applications
  
• Technical competence with both front end and back-end development
  
• Expertise with Java, Gosu or another Java equivalent/similar language
  
• Business level Japanese and English language skills
  
• Willing to work on Guidewire etc software for insurance
  

• Competence with AWS, GCP, Azure or similar cloud application development
  
• Competent understanding of both SDLC and Agile development
  
• Competence with modern relational database operations and performance optimization
  
• Competence with APIs and microservice architecture
  
• Competence with code versioning tools
  
• Competence with code quality tools
  
• Competence with JS libraries and frameworks
  
• Guidewire, Al Fresco experience
  
• Insurance or financial services industry experience
  
• Candidate will be able to:collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the quality of team s work meets expectations work autonomous
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the quality of team s work meets expectations work autonomously
  
• Hire and support the professional development of software engineers and team through appropriate feedback, coaching, goal setting, mentoring and training
  
• Communicate effectively when speaking and writing
  
• Prioritize work of team to support production as appropriate
  
• Contribute to architecture analysis and design
  
• Understand technical requirements
  
• Resolve information gaps and ambiguity to make good and quick decisions on complex topics
  
• As an experienced subject matter expert, lead discussions on technical subjects and guide others on best coding and security practices
  
• Conduct code reviews to give meaningful advice and feedback
  
• Create a safe environment that encourages growth mindset, where all feel safe to share ideas
  
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field from accredited college/university or equivalent work experience