As Engineering Director in Finance Data and Technology (D&T) Actuarial Reserving, you will lead a team of Engineering Managers. You will be responsible for driving the strategic direction of the technology architecture, ensuring delivery excellence, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
You will:
- Drive IT Architecture across your product area in alignment with standards
- Analyze high-level business requirements and integrate them into the application landscape.
- Be accountable for non-functional aspects such as performance, reliability, and security
- Be actively involved in prioritizing project deliveries and change requests
- Continuously optimize the actuarial reserving system landscapes
- Oversee resource planning and cloud cost management
- Ensure teams adhere to development best practices and internal standards
- Oversee people management, performance feedback, development planning, and formal reviews.
- Participate in IT initiatives
- Co-lead a product area together with the Product & Delivery Director, ensuring seamless collaboration between engineering and product functions (What and How)
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the technology strategy for your domain, aligned with business goals.
- Lead and mentor Engineering Managers
- Oversee architectural decisions and technical standards across teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including actuaries, Product & Delivery Directors, Engineering Directors, and operation teams.
- Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks and external regulatory requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, tooling, and delivery pipelines.
Contribute to technology and engineering initiatives
About the Team (Description of the team and context in which the role sits in)
- The actuarial reserving unit consists of two major teams (P&C and L&H) with about 90 internal and externals team members
- The teams have the full responsibility (design, build, run) for all landscapes in P&C RE and L&H RE reserving
You will co-lead the unit together with the product & delivery director of the unit
About you: (education, linguistic ability, professional experience, leadership qualities, soft skills)
As a successful candidate for this role, you possess:
- Proven leadership experience in engineering management within insurance/financial services
- Strong background as software engineer
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms (Azure) and data engineering, including working on a Spark based platform
- Preferably experience with Java, Python, Databricks, Angular
- Excellent relational database skills (modelling, SQL) and track record working with structured financial data
- Proven experience in the actuarial reserving business domain, exposure to both P&C and L&H a plus
- Solid understanding of actuarial modelling platforms incl. market standard SW and integrations to financial reporting systems
- Proven experience implementing complex actuarial and/or finance system capabilities and guiding platform change
- Ability to lead through influence and drive change across complex environments
- Experience leading distributed teams across different locations and cultures
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in English
