VP Engineering

Role: VP Engineering/AVP Engineering

Location: London, UK

Contract position- Initially 6 months

Mandatory: Excellent work experience with Insurance domain.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ownership of the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within their domain.
• Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases.
• Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
• Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies.
• Monitors all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels.  Ensures high level technical support is provided.
• Works closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes.
• Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications.  Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability.
• Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies.
• Contributes to the development of information technology development standards, policies, processes and procedures to ensure consistent compatibility and integration throughout the company.
• Continuously reviews the technology needs of supported business functions/processes relative to new technological developments and trends.  Keeps abreast of the industry and emerging technology

Skills

1. Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods and best practices.  Proficiency with various programming languages.
2. Knowledge of application test automation products, processes, and best practices
3. Proven experience and strong understanding of Agile development and conventional method and its application to company technology needs.
4. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead and motivate team.
5. Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective collaboration with senior management.
6. Good general business acumen.
7. Thorough knowledge of databases technologies, both relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and non-relational database technologies as such as Memcached, MongoDB and Redis.
8. Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data.

High level knowledge/expertise of Front-end development such as: ReactJS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Accessibility and Responsive Layouts UI/UX development experience