Head of Engineering — Insurance & Investments

The Head of Engineering leads the organization's 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.

• 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, Dev Ops, 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, Dev Sec Ops , 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.

• 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

• 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

12–18+ years of software engineering, application development, technology, or platform engineering experience.

5+ years in engineering leadership.

• 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, Fin Tech, or Financial Services preferred.

• Software engineering
• Enterprise application development
• Cloud-native architecture
• Microservices
• APIs
• Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops
• 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 bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.