Descrição da Função

The company you will work for 
You will join an international insurance company. 

Your new mission 

• Collaborate with Technology leadership teams in other business units to define and drive the outcomes of centralised services, ensuring they support the group's technology goals to Simplify, Protect, and Enable the business.
• Provide effective and proactive support and expertise to programmes and projects, creating innovative and actionable plans, and optimising solution delivery.
• Interpret and contextualise business requirements into actionable technology roadmaps with well-defined benefits and cost requirements.
• Develop and execute product strategies aligned with the company's overall goals and objectives, in conjunction with the Head of Architecture, to ensure consistency and quality of solutions.
• Support the end-to-end product development process, including ideation, requirements gathering, prioritisation, and roadmap creation.
• Lead, advocate, and drive adoption of best practices to ensure the standardisation of outputs across the core function value streams.
• Support the planning and execution of new product/feature launches, ensuring effective messaging, scheduling, and monitoring of metrics to drive improvements and satisfaction.
• Lead and manage a team of DevOps engineers and other platform engineers as needed, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture within the team, and providing guidance, mentorship, and development opportunities.
• Advise the Platform Engineering teams on performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and other operational concerns to define appropriate metrics and KPIs.
• Promote a commercially oriented culture where the Platform Engineering teams recognise their importance to the company's commercial aims and work to enable them.
• Ensure the provision of all centralised services to meet the quality, resilience, and usability needs of all user groups.
• Act as the escalation point internally and externally for high-priority concerns, being available to answer questions, clarify requirements, and provide general guidance.
• Manage engagement with third parties, through RFI and/or RFP processes to the implementation and run phases, including attending QBR sessions where appropriate.
• Own the risk registry, audit requirements, and financial management for the Platform Engineering remit.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and market dynamics to identify opportunities for product innovation and growth.

What you need to succeed 

• Over 5 years in a senior Technology leadership role, with extensive experience in senior stakeholder engagement and commercial/financial awareness.
• Over 5 years in a team management role, providing coaching and mentoring, and leveraging team competencies/capabilities to achieve overall business outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of the technical and functional aspects required for the role, including regulatory knowledge, especially Operational Resilience requirements, as well as business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
• Engaging communication and facilitation skills, suitable for both in-person and virtual settings.
• Experience in leading successful teams with measurable goals and objectives (OKRs).
• Strong knowledge of DevOps methodology and technologies, as well as experience leading or working closely with DevOps engineers.
• Experience managing Cloud/SaaS applications, APIs, and legacy applications, with a strong understanding of how to migrate towards a digital, cloud, and API-driven capability.
• Experience in evaluating and selecting new technologies to validate their capability to meet requirements.
• Experience implementing operational process improvements through automation and/or process design/redesign.
• Experience in cost optimisation through third-party and operating model rationalisation programmes.
• Strong knowledge and experience of build, deployment, change, and release processes, as well as automation.
• Strong knowledge in data engineering and analytics principles and technologies.
• Experience working with standard collaboration tools, such as Jira, Confluence, or Miro.
• Extensive experience working on large, complex projects or products, with a proven ability to deliver lasting value beyond go-live.
• Experience operating in a challenging organisational environment, with a requirement to balance differing priorities and demands.
• An aptitude for challenging the status quo to ensure continuous improvement with creative solutions.

What the company can offer you 

• The company offers a balanced work-life environment with a 35-hour workweek and flexible hybrid working arrangements.
• Employees benefit from comprehensive health insurance, a gym allowance, and a robust pension plan.
• The company also provides 25 days of annual leave.

Next Steps
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send us your updated CV. If you're looking for another type of professional challenge, contact us to discuss other career opportunities, always in complete confidence.

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