Reporting to Chief Information Officer of Chubb Life the primary responsibility for the Global CTO Chubb Life is to drive engineering capabilities and shape them for an AI enabled future. The CTO must be able to define and execute a strategy of engineering excellence that supports continuous delivery across in-house applications and managed services for all the markets where Chubb Life operates
As part of Life Technology leadership group this role is accountable for aligning market specific strategies with global engineering standards business partnership continuous delivery and production support. The successful candidate will be a seasoned professional who can easily transfer their extensive experience deep technical expertise and strong functional capabilities into tangible results that drives Chubb Life towards meeting its strategic business objectives.
In addition as Chubb Life operates an extensive matrix reporting structure within the Chubb Group strong influencing skills are critical in ensuring all technology related services and deliverables are executed within expectations of all local regional and global stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Technology Leadership: Provide leadership to Chubb Life markets with deep insights into technology enabled solutioning and alignment with the business strategy. Drive the engineering organization across Chubb Life markets with a strong focus on execution and business enablement
Technology Alignment: Ensure Chubb Life IT is consistently aligned to Chubb Groups methodologies and operating models without sacrificing the servicing of Chubb Lifes various markets.
Technology Strategy: Continually focused to enhance the technology ecosystem across Chubb Life markets through modernization of legacy technologies plus pursuing transformation towards Digital and Cloud capabilities that provide material business benefit.
Technology Governance: support IT governance to ensure a robust alignment between markets and the region. Drive annual planning exercise to align with the strategic planning. Support monthly and quarterly business reviews with the executive leaders and drive the delivery change in the markets.
Engineering Excellence: Lead global engineering for Life with core focus on right standards user experience re-usable components and services etc. Strong focus on AI enabled and cloud first approach. Bring an engineering culture and mindset in the organization by insourcing the software engineering work from externally dependent vendors
Business Partnership: Work closely with the Chubb Lifes Ops & Tech leadership and Country leadership to ensure technology is an enabler of strategy.
Vendor Partners: Actively and continuously evaluate resourcing models and the ability to leverage key partners to augment capabilities and skills to optimize delivery and servicing of the Chubb Life Group.
Risk Management: passionate about ensuring privacy and protection of customer partner and employee data plus take full ownership for all technology-related emerging risks and their management.
Core Competencies
Technical Acumen: a strong technology foundation to ensure you positively guide technical discussions and solution design to optimize business capabilities and customer services.
Strategic Focus: Incorporates a long-term perspective on the Chubb Life Group and the markets in which it operates into both planning and execution.
Business Acumen: ability to apply technical expertise specific knowledge and judgment to business issues to help improve Chubb Life.
Ownership: Takes full accountability for achieving (or failing to achieve) desired results.
Influence: Ability to operate within a matrix organization where reporting lines can be blurred requiring collaboration and influencing skills to get things done even without formal authority.
Execution: Effectively and efficiently uses personal initiative managerial authority and organizational resources to deliver on commitments.
Inclusive Team Leadership: Fosters high collaboration within own team and across the company and constantly acts and thinks One Chubb. Actively seeks to build a diverse team leveraging different capabilities.
Leadership: Sets a good ethical example and is seen as the role model with upholding and modeling Chubb values even in challenging situations when making decisions and communicating to others.
15 years experience in technical delivery of multi-platform solutions and/or managing related projects in complex multi-geography multi-business line environments.
10 years of experience in management/leadership of a Technology function in a regulated industry ideally Financial Services.
Proven technical skills and familiarity with wide range of technologies (O/S programming languages) including usage of industry standard tooling and AI in software delivery.
Experience in the Life Insurance domain strongly preferred.
Regional/global experience specially in APAC region
Tertiary level qualifications in Engineering/Business/Finance or Management. Equivalent skills and experience will also be considered
Required Experience:
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Chubb Life has been in Egypt since 2003. Chubb Life is the international life insurance division of Chubb - the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company by market capitalization.