Head of Engineering — Insurance & Investments

Job Summary

The Head of Engineering leads the organizations software engineering and technology development function responsible for building modernizing scaling and maintaining secure and reliable technology products and platforms.

Within Insurance & Investments the role oversees engineering across insurance platforms investment systems customer-facing applications APIs enterprise integrations digital channels data-intensive applications and technology modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Define and execute the engineering strategy roadmap architecture and delivery model.

Lead software engineering application development platform engineering and technical delivery teams.

Establish engineering standards development methodologies coding practices and technical governance.

Oversee development of:

Enterprise applications

Customer-facing digital platforms

Mobile/web applications

APIs and microservices

Insurance platforms

Investment/portfolio platforms

Workflow and automation solutions

Integration platforms

Lead modernization of legacy applications and technology platforms.

Drive cloud-native development microservices APIs DevOps CI/CD and automation.

Establish software development lifecycle (SDLC) and engineering quality standards.

Ensure applications are scalable resilient secure and highly available.

Partner with the CISO to embed application security secure coding DevSecOps and vulnerability management.

Partner with Data/Analytics teams on data-intensive applications and analytical platforms.

Oversee architecture decisions technical debt management and platform modernization.

Establish automated testing code quality release management and deployment practices.

Monitor engineering productivity quality delivery timelines and operational performance.

Lead engineering incident management root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.

Manage engineering budgets technology vendors contractors and strategic technology partners.

Recruit mentor and develop engineering leaders and technical teams.

Establish engineering KPIs SLAs quality metrics and delivery standards.

Ensure technology development complies with relevant security regulatory risk and governance requirements.

Collaborate with Product Business Operations Data Security Infrastructure Risk and executive leadership.

Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Promote engineering innovation and adoption of emerging technologies including AI where appropriate.

Insurance & Investments Engineering Focus

Insurance

Policy administration systems

Claims platforms

Underwriting systems

Insurance portals

Customer/mobile applications

Digital distribution platforms

Payments and billing systems

CRM and workflow applications

Insurance APIs and integrations

Investments / Asset Management

Portfolio-management platforms

Trading/investment applications

Market-data platforms

Risk and performance systems

Client/investor portals

Wealth-management applications

Transaction and custody integrations

Investment analytics platforms

Ideal Candidate Profile

1218 years of software engineering application development technology or platform engineering experience.

5 years in engineering leadership.

Previous experience as:

Head of Engineering

Head of Software Engineering

Head of Software Development

Head of Application Development

Engineering Director

Director of Engineering

Director of Software Engineering

Director of Technology

VP Engineering

VP Software Engineering

Chief Technology Officer

Experience in Insurance Banking Investment Management Asset Management Wealth Management FinTech or Financial Services preferred.

Strong expertise in:

Software engineering

Enterprise application development

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices

APIs

DevOps/DevSecOps

CI/CD

Agile engineering

Software architecture

Application security

System integration

Platform engineering

Experience leading large engineering organizations and distributed teams.

Strong understanding of enterprise architecture scalability resilience performance and technical debt.

Experience with AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Docker CI/CD and modern development frameworks is advantageous.

Strong product/business orientation and ability to connect engineering strategy with business objectives.

Excellent executive stakeholder and vendor-management skills.

Relevant bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or related field.