Senior Associate – Life Insurance Competition
Guardian Life
AVP, IT Global Specialty Insurance Delivery Lead
The Hartford
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hartford • Connecticut, New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudSDLC
About the role
- Accountable for end-to-end technology execution, quality, financials, and workforce management for strategic investments and maintenance, ensuring compliance with NFR (Compliance, Audit, SOX controls, Disaster Recovery).
- Partner with VSO, VSL, Business Transformation Leads and Agile product management teams to drive business value and prioritize capabilities.
- Responsible for delivery of Submissions Intake, Extraction and Ingestion.
- Manage and negotiate complex stakeholder relationships within and across Value Streams and business leadership.
- Develop and implement technology strategy, process improvements, risk mitigation, financial management, and resource planning.
- Collaborate with enterprise leaders on digital transformation, cloud migration, and Generative AI initiatives.
- Develop and lead a large organization with strong workforce strategies, including HR management for Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Quality Analysts.
- Effectively manage multiple vendor partnerships in an onshore/offshore environment.
- Lead and govern the established Agile Maturity Roadmap using Agile SAFe framework, Chapters, and platform concepts.
- Mature DevOps, RE, and QE practices, improve automation for continuous delivery, and build high-performing teams focused on continuous improvement.
- Oversee financial management, including cost and time estimation to deliver business value.
- Drive community engagement and productivity, lead innovation, implement new technologies, and demonstrate strong business acumen.
- Engage leaders to support technology changes, act as a trusted advisor to the leadership teams, and utilize strong analytical skills to influence decisions.
- Oversee product development and educate leaders on emerging technology trends.
Requirements
- 12+ years of technology leadership experience in delivering software solutions in a complex scaled agile environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Prior engineering experience, and familiarity with all aspects of the software development life cycle.
- Strong understanding of business strategy and aligning technology roadmaps to business goals with focus on Business Insurance value chain.
- Servant leadership abilities with skills in cultivating the technology workforce for future through coaching, development, and performance management.
- Ability to engage leaders across organizational boundaries and influence technology decisions.
- Practical experience in the insurance domain with strong prior delivery experience is preferred.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field; Master of Science in Computer Science or related preferred.
- Experience with AI, ML, and integrating data science models into operational systems is a plus.
Benefits
- Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
- long-term incentives
- on-the-spot recognition
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AgileSAFeDevOpsREQEAIMLsoftware development life cyclefinancial managementprocess improvements
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementservant leadershipcoachingdevelopmentperformance managementanalytical skillsinfluencecollaborationinnovation
Certifications
Bachelor of Science in Computer ScienceMaster of Science in Computer Science
