EY GDS - Quality Engineering Leader - Americas Insurance Sector

Job Name - GDS Consulting Quality Engineering Leader - Americas Insurance

Position Summary:

Lead the strategy, growth, team and operations for Americas Insurance Sector within GDS Quality Engineering competency

Essential Functions of the job:

The Americas Insurance QE leader will lead / build out capability and deliver across various Insurance LoBs - P&C, Life and Annuities.

The QE leader will be responsible for:

- Managing and running Insurance QE engagements for Americas within EY GDS

- Run end to end QE delivery for Americas Insurance

- Will have client delivery teams reporting from across cross functional teams

- Overall responsibility for QE growth including large transformation and managed QE deal participation, talent acquisition and new capability build out

- People and performance management with proven ability to nurture and build teams across clients and sustain teams for longer period

- Planning, prioritization and tracking of QE pipeline for Americas Insurance sector

- Pursuit Leadership for large deals

- Host several client stakeholders to create the conducive & collaborative environment for client innovation.

- Should be able to navigate a hybrid consulting organization and manage several stakeholder groups

- Expand the Quality Engineering services for Insurance to new areas and trends in the market

- Build the QE business strategy for Americas Insurance sector

- Innovative mindset to build industry leading solutions

- Drive the Location Strategy to leverage global talent pool

- Drive the Talent agenda, focused on talent acquisition, up-skilling initiatives and talent management

Analytical-Decision Making Responsibilities:

- Understanding the client's situation and pricing the deals appropriately

- Exhibit EY's partnership spirit to our clients with proactive governance of our engagements coupled with a broader perspective of client's objectives and goals

- Continuously look for opportunities to build and sell industry

- Deliver value to the clients by providing solutions that help improve their business metric

- Analyze the market dynamics to build the robust future roadmap

- Liaison with the clients directly to resolve issues / conflicts

Education and Experience:

- Minimum of bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or information systems

- 20-25 years of relevant experience with atleast 5 years in leadership capacity

- Should have at least 10 years' experience in delivering Guidewire transformation programs for Insurance clients

- Should have led team of at least 200 professionals

- Should have led large transformation programs and accounts

- At least 1 Certification in program management (PMI, Prince2) or Scrum Certifications/safe agilist etc.

- Guidewire ACE certification

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

- Has prior experience in setting up centers of excellence in Insurance packaged products (Guidewire etc.)

- Strong and inspirational leadership with focus on domain led technical delivery excellence.

- Grow and sustain large, high-performing teams; specialization in Guidewire with strong familiarity of market landscape

- Must have the ability to engage with client executive leadership, lead large pursuits and take end to end ownership of deal making

- Paint a compelling vision of the future, leverage storytelling and rally others with passion and purpose.

- Strong communication skills and able to successfully articulate techno functional concepts to both business and technology audience

- Strong experience in managing and working with globally connected teams

- Experience in reviewing decisions and articulate pros/cons of options based on personal experience, industry knowledge, and best practices.