Zurich Kotak - Head - Architecture & Engineering
Description:
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a result-focused individual with excellent problem-solving and communication skills to join Zurich Kotak General Insurance. The role involves overall responsible for IT architecture & engineering for Zurich Kotak General Insurance
What will you be doing?:
Strategic Leadership:
- Own the end-to-end IT application design & development and smooth production running.
- Drive identification and adoption of best practices, tools and frameworks for development & operations
- Ensure Architecture, design and development are always focused on strategic short term and longer-term business objectives.
Business Focus:
- Ensure balance between timeline pressures and optimal design.
Technical Excellence:
- Convert strategy to action by developing and maintaining robust architecture, design and adherence to design during build.
- Ensure technical teams are staying current with emerging and newer technologies.
- Drive implementation of robust engineering and DevOps practices and tools.
- Ensure Information security requirements are constantly considered are implemented during design and build.
- Ensure identification and robust implementation of best practices for production monitoring, observability and alerting. Including proactively identifying problem areas and addressing.
Quality:
What are we looking for:
- Senior stakeholder engagement and influence
- Passion for technology. With hands-on experience
Technical understanding of multiple technologies, with more focus on:
- Restful APIs
- Spring boot (Java)
- Javascript
- React.JS
- Databases
- Cloud AWS, docker containers etc.
- Ability to document and communicate Applications Architecture to business stakeholders
- Ability to document and explain design to developers
Who will you work with:
Stakeholders:
- Group Technology & Operations
Across APAC :
Other APAC tech teams Architecture, delivery management, business analysis, development and DevOps.
- Country business and technical leaders
- External Partners
- IT service providers
- 3rd party software and cloud providers
Who we are:
Zurich Kotak General Insurance Company (India) Limited is a 70:30 joint venture between Zurich Insurance Group and Kotak Mahindra Bank. The Company got its new name Zurich Kotak General Insurance Company (India) Limited in the month of August 2024, following Zurich Insurance Groups 70% acquisition in Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Company Limited. It is the youngest and one of the fastest growing non-life insurers in India.
The company aims to cater to a wide range of customer segments & geographies offering an array of non-life insurance products like Motor, Health, Home etc. As a practice, the company seeks to provide a differentiated value proposition through customized products and services leveraging state of art technology and digital infrastructure.
If you're interested in working in a dynamic and challenging environment for a company that recognizes and rewards your creativity, initiatives, and contributions then Zurich Kotak General Insurance could be just the place for you. The success of our business is built on the contributions of our highly talented employees - people who work every day to position us at the forefront of the insurance industry. We therefore look to hire great people and we encourage them to give their best.
At Zurich Kotak we are proud of our culture. We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion. We want you to bring your whole self to work, we have a diverse mix of customers, and we want our employee base to reflect that. We are committed to continuous improvement, and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities. So, make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported, Love what you do. Work for us.
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