Head of Cloud Software Engineering

Tokio Marine HCC - Public Risk Group a member of the Tokio Marine group of companies is a market leader in providing specialized insurance products for municipal entities. We cover counties cities townships villages police department prisons fire departments and more. We serve the growing insurance and risk management needs of medium and large governmental entities and provide property and casualty insurance coverages in multiple states.

Ideal candidates lives within reasonable commuting distance to London and are comfortable with a Hybrid In-Office Work Schedule (3 days In-Office 2 day WFH).

Head of Cloud Engineering

As a Head of Cloud Engineering for Public Risk Group you will be responsible for leading the Cloud Software Engineering Delivery and Support for Public Risk Group as well as the Parametric Weather and EPIC Groups that we support within the organization. You will act as the primary Product and IT Relationship Manager for Parametric Weather and EPIC supporting their day-to-day IT and development needs.

To accomplish this you will deeply partner with business and engineering teams to analyze document and develop solutions based on business needs and opportunities to deliver the intended outcomes in a timely manner. Working across Agile teams you will drive the delivery of cloud-based capabilities that will transform our application landscape. Your skills in AWS cloud SQL Python MongoDB Cloud DevOps and PowerBI will enable you to excel in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership engineers product managers and business customers to understand application and data needs.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand application requirements and translate them into effective technology solutions.

• Designing developing and deploying dynamically scalable high-available fault-tolerant and reliable applications to Cloud environments.

• Lead DevOps standards and practice implementing continuous integration and distribution pipelines to deploy applications.

• Act as a subject matter expert in Cloud and DevOps capabilities.

• Select and utilize appropriate AWS and SaaS services to use based on given requirements and use cases.

• Influence short- and long-term strategy with cross-functional teams to drive impact.

• Take ownership of the end-to-end software engineering component of the solution

• Promote a cloud-first data-first culture throughout the organization.

Experience & Education

• Bachelors degree in Business Computer Science or a related field or the equivalent education and/or experience

• Ideally 10 years of relevant and progressive professional experience in software development and support.

Position Requirements:

• This is a leadership role that will Lead and Do on a daily basis

• Strong experience AWS Cloud environment and MongoDB

• Python C# Core programming language and Frameworks

• Skills for developing deploying & debugging cloud applications (familiar with AWS Well-Architected Framework Domain Driven Design and 12-factor applications)

• Skills in API usage command line interface and SDKs (AWS API Gateway Amazon EKS)

• Strong experience with Document Databases (preferably MongoDB Atlas)

• Well versed in usage of containers (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools such as Azure DevOps pipelines and AWS Code Pipeline

• Familiarity with open-source package management

• Familiarity with GIT branching strategy and software versioning strategy

• Hands-on experience in building designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS

• Strong experience with Build and Release Systems Integration Agile Estimations/Planning

• Strong experience in software development process test driven development

• Strong OO design skills/implementation of design patterns

• Ability to apply broad knowledge of principles practices and procedures

• Good written and oral communications skills with an emphasis on confidentiality tact and diplomacy

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills; demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

• Advanced proficiency and experience using Microsoft Office Package (Excel Access PowerPoint Word)

• Insurance or Financial Service industry experience required

Travel Expectations

Occasional travel up to 10%.

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of Companies offer a competitive salary and employee benefit package. We are a successful dynamic organization experiencing rapid growth and are seeking an energetic and confident individual to join our team of professionals. The Tokio Marine HCC Group of Companies are equal-opportunity employers. Please visitfor more information about our companies.

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