Head of Engineering — Insurance & Investments

Job Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, DevOps, 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, DevSecOps, 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.

Insurance & Investments Engineering Focus

Insurance

• 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

Investments / Asset Management

• 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

Ideal Candidate Profile

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

Previous experience as:

• 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

Strong expertise in:

• Software engineering
• Enterprise application development
• Cloud-native architecture
• Microservices
• APIs
• DevOps/DevSecOps
• 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.

Experience in Insurance, Banking, Investment Management, Asset Management, Wealth Management, FinTech, or Financial Services preferred.

Relevant bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.