ZISPL - Associate Director - Information Technology

About the Opportunity:

"The opportunity is to lead and assist opportunities in InSmart program and contribute to technology and data driven solutions across complex and time consuming commercial insurance value chain.

The opportunity will involve identifying, managing, governing and solutionizing digitization opportunities and using digital technologies to transform insurance business process and create an environment for digital business. "

What you'll be doing:

1 Utilize Technology Governance:

a. to define for InSmart a governance model from technology and resources (tech.) standpoint.

b. for execution of monthly compliance and Technology audits for in-execution projects.

c. for conducting Security audits and Xceedance ARB governance over in-flight projects.

2 Perform project governance:

a. to track and report cost, risk, dependencies, resources and variances to internal and external stakeholders.

b. to track and manage resource utilisation as against the approved project budgets.

c. to track and manage, for in-flight projects, statuses and variances (effort, schedule).

3 Manage technology and architecture:

a. to lead opportunity identification for automation and conceptualize market viable solution.

b. to help provide high level solution proposal for identified opportunities.

c. to lead solution review with multiple stakeholders and attain proposal signoff.

e. to lead market research on new tools, technologies and new areas to focus.

f. for leading technology management of common tools planned for horizontal support to all processes and solutions.

g. by ensuring modularity and configurability of solutions.

4 Manage and assist project execution teams:

a. by leading multiple end to end high impact projects and ensure delivery as per the committed timeline and budget.

b. in identification and management of stakeholders to ensure delivery as per the committed timelines and budget.

c. by performing periodic technical review and guiding the project execution team with architecture decisions and execution.

d. by planning and managing cross utilization of resources for execution projects.

e. by highlight risks and providing course correction to ensure market viable solution.

5 Provide support in drafting Go To Marker strategy in collaboration with multiple stakeholders (BD, AM, Marcom, market research firms).

What you'll bring to the team:

1 Extensive knowledge of IT project and program delivery and various SDLC frameworks. Adept understanding and implementation of Agile methodology.

2 Strategic thinking with a knack for identifying risks effectively

3 Self-motivated and passionate individual with an technology mindset and the ability to identify digitization and digitalization opportunities in the insurance value chain.

4 Strong stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills; proven ability to effectively get buy-in at all levels and across cross-functional teams.

5 Ability to quickly understand, decide and adopt new technology innovations/tools.

6 Ability to quickly gauge the technology and digital needs of the insurance industry and lead/guide the adoption of latest technology tools/cutting edge tech. Drive technology innovations that act as disruptors to the insurance industry.

7 Ability to understand and create a technology roadmap. Plan/align appropriate technical resources and create a framework for their capability enahancements along with cross skilling.

Experience

BE/MCA/Msc Computer Science with 15+ Years of experience in IT industry and should have worked at least 5+ years in software product development companies or similar entities

Should have started the career as software developer and moved into leading and managing the product development

Should have well-versed with the below technology stack Microsoft .Net Full Stack, Angular/ReactJS, SQL Server or any RDBMS, Cloud specific Architecuture and Design Patterns, Microservices and Micro Front ends, Containerization deployment, CI&CD, AGILE-SCRUM, Azure Devops

Sakshi Sinha
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