Core Business Services Engineering Lead

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Engineering Lead to drive the technical transformation of our core backbone system which supports critical business capabilities including contract administration technical accounting retrocession sub-ledger.

This role sits within the CTO Core & Group organization and reports to the CTO. It plays a key role in SCORs transformation agenda leading the technical evolution of a legacy monolithic platform into modular cloud-native domain-driven core services aligned with our target enterprise architecture.

This is a multi year major transformation program driven by strategic initiatives and will enable a product driven operating model.

The Engineering Lead (focusing on the how) will co-lead the initiative alongside the Delivery Lead ( focusing on the what) ensuring strong alignment between business priorities and engineering

this context the role focuses primarily on technical leadership solution architecture and delivery excellence while the Delivery Lead drives functional and business dimensions.

The position operates in a highly transversal environment working in close collaboration with business domain CTO (P&C L&H Finance) AI Data and Analytics teams to promote a data-driven architecture and AI-first engineering practices.

The services delivered will be designed as enterprise-wide capabilities consumed across multiple business domains including P&C L&H and Finance requiring strong alignment and collaboration across the organization.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Co-lead the transformation with the Delivery Lead ensuring alignment between functional priorities and engineering delivery
  Own the engineering dimension of the initiative including solution architecture design development practices and delivery quality
  Lead hands-on engineering activities ensuring robust scalable and maintainable implementations
  Drive the transformation of the existing monolith into modular domain-aligned and reusable core services
  Promote data-driven and AI-first architecture principles in collaboration with AI and Data teams
  Design and execute migration and decomposition strategies ensuring business continuity and no operational risk
  Ensure that developed services are scalable resilient and reusable across domains
  Collaborate with cloud platform DevOps and enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment with SCOR standards and target architecture
  Act as the primary technical counterpart to the Delivery Lead bridging business needs and engineering solutions
  Lead and mentor engineering teams fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement

Required experience & competencies

• Technical :

Proven experience in legacy system modernization and transformation (monolith to modular or distributed architectures)

Experience drafting solutions applying agentic SDLC.